Ski Patrollers Fired After Altercation with Resort Owner’s Son
By Rocky Thompson on January 31st, 2011
Sunshine Village ski area in Banff fired four longtime staffers days after a ski patroller reprimanded the resort owner’s son skiing out of bounds. The junior patroller busted the kid with four friends and told them to get back inbounds. Twelve days later four of the resort staff were fired by the kid’s dad after they were questioned about the event and the junior patroller refused to write a letter of apology. A few days later all but six ski patrollers staged a sick-day walkout, and the resort opened with only a couple lifts in operation.
The guys who got cut loose weren’t college kids taking a year off - most had been working at the resort for nearly 30 years. They’ve filed a wrongful termination lawsuit for about $500k.
I wonder who this kid’s dad will fire when his kid gets buried in an avalanche while skiing out of bounds.
Tags: canada, ski patrol, Skiing
You would think that the dad would know the dangers of avalanches after he watched his dad die in one by not following his guide while heli-skiing. Some people never learn! You can read about the lawsuit here: http://www.canlii.org/eliisa/highlight.do?text=ralph+scurfield&language=en&searchTitle=Search+all+CanLII+Databases&path=%2Fen%2Fbc%2Fbcsc%2Fdoc%2F1990%2F1990canlii1667%2F1990canlii1667.html
D-bag!
wow, fired for doing their job, sounds like we’re missing some great details, but I’m always going to side with the Patrollers
[...] ski area in Canada have banded together on Facebook to try to marshal a boycott of the resort for firing several of their longtime staff who caught the resort owner’s idiot son skiing out of b…. I say this with all sincerity: Good luck. Convincing people to boycott a ski resort mid-season is [...]
One can only hope that the Alberta, CA courts are as f***ed up as the US courts. After a million dollar coffee spill in the states, those four staffers deserve more than $125k apiece (before legal fees etc).