Is there any case law where an employer provides transportation to and from the remote location of Mica Creek?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from WCAT-2011-02204 (Re), 2011 CanLII 73928 (BC WCAT):
The plaintiff submits this case is similar to WCAT-2011-00866, Bird v. Hirsche et al. In that case, the plaintiff was employed with a catering company working at a camp near the Mica Creek. She went into Revelstoke for the weekend to stay with a co-worker and was injured while she was en route back to Mica Creek. That decision reasoned: I consider it significant that prior to the accident on October 28, 2007, the employer had never, directly or indirectly, provided transportation to the plaintiff in relation to her personal journeys to and from Mica Creek. This was not a case where the employer provided any reimbursement to the plaintiff for her travel due to the remote location of Mica Creek. The plaintiff’s travel to and from Mica Creek was undertaken in her own vehicle, at her own expense. There was no prior agreement or practice regarding the provision of transportation to the plaintiff by the employer in relation to such journeys.
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