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This instalment of You Make the Call features a dispute between a nurse who was looking to take on a temporary position and the hospital that believed she resigned from her regular position.
Helen Lukianchuk was working in a full-time nurse position in the operating room (OR) at Woodstock General Hospital in Woodstock, Ont., when she applied for a job share position in the hospital's obstetrics unit. She got the job in September 2005 and she left her OR position to take the new job, which was a parttime position in which she shared duties with another nurse. The two of them divided the hours of work between themselves on their own. She told her manager in the OR she would be available to work some casual shifts in the OR and subsequently did so occasionally.
In January 2007, Lukianchuk was offered a temporary position with the local public health unit from February to October 2007. The work was related to her job in the obstetrics unit and she felt the experience would increase her knowledge...