For the most part, his absenteeism was due to a work-related injury to his right wrist which prevented him from performing some of the duties associated with his position as cook/deckhand on the respondent's coastal tugs.
L’affaire concernait un employé qui, entre 1989 et 1996, avait travaillé seulement l’équivalent de 17,5 % des 2 662 jours pendant lesquels il avait été inscrit sur la feuille de paye de l’entreprise intimée.