I was suspended a day. Because of a ticket I received because of faulty equipment. Saskatchewan. Tried to plead my case

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Customer: I was suspended a day. Because of a ticket I received because of faulty equipment.
JA: What province are you in? It matters because laws vary by location.
Customer: Saskatchewan
JA: What steps have you taken so far?
Customer: tried to plead my case with employer with no progress
JA: Anything else you want the Lawyer to know before I connect you?
Customer: no
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Debra, Expert

Hello and Welcome to JustAnswer. My name is***** will be working on your question today and I am looking forward to our conversation.

Please note that the experts don’t text so there may be a bit of a delay. If you don’t answer back for a while I may not be online when you do but I will never desert you and will check back often. As well, as I am working from home it is possible that I will be interrupted but I will always return back as soon as I can.

I am sorry to hear of this difficult situation.

What is your specific legal question?

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Is there any steps I can take? I had a truck and the speedometer quit working so I was on my way back to the shop. The truck was governed at 100kmh when it works. But I found out after that the truck actually goes 114kmh. I was ticketed on a grid road going 103. Which would be about 85kmh on my "working" speedometer. And afterwards my employer is punishing me. Suspension for a day. Because I was speeding. Even though it was because of their faulty equipment.
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Over a text message no less. Never had a performance review. And I have photos with time stamps as proof it was not working. And one with my dispatcher telling me my speed according to gps time stamped as well
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Debra, Expert

Are you in a union?

Did you tell the employer that it was their fault?

Customer
Not in a union. And I think it’s their fault. If the speedometer was accurate to begin with I would have been ok.
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Debra, Expert

You are definitely right right.

In terms of the ticket you should plead guilty with an explanation and explain that you went by the speedometer of a truck that did not belong to you.

In terms of the employer, you can tell the employer that you receive legal information from a senior lawyer who told you that it is completely wrong and unethical for them to suspend you for a day when they gave you a truck that caused you to receive a ticket and that in fact they should be paying for the ticket and any insurance increase if your premiums go up and should pay you for the day of suspension.

The problem is that because you're not in a union there's nothing you can do to compel the employer to do the right thing unless you were to quit and sue them unfortunately.

Do you see what I mean?

Customer
thank you so much for your advice! I’ll see what they say. Going to talk to our Human Resources contact today.
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Debra, Expert

You are very welcome and I sincerely ***** ***** works out.

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Thank you for trusting us to help you here at JustAnswer. I am marking this post as complete. If you would like to ask me more questions please start a new post and if you do if you say “This is only for Debra” I will be sure to give your post top priority.

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