Workers on leave for more than two years, but retained as employees
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A British Columbia employer had the right to discharge employees on long-term disability leave who had no reasonable prospect of returning to work, but it could not due to a long-term past practice of leaving them on the payroll receiving health benefits, an arbitrator has ruled.