* B. C. - Judge calls port's process “procedurally deficient and profoundly unfair”
-- Canada’s federal court has ruled in favour of Vancouver-area trucking companies who said they lost out because of an unfair licensing process conducted by the Vancouver port authority... In the ruling, judge Robert Barnes found that Port Metro Vancouver’s (PMV) method of processing applications from companies in batches, and applying a higher threshold to applications that were submitted later, made for an “evaluation model that was procedurally deficient and profoundly unfair.”.. For instance, companies that applied earlier had to get a score of four points in order to get licences when the port authority rated their application. But applications filed later had to get five points, and the final batch had to achieve a score of six points. Barnes described situations where filing one day later meant the different between being awarded or denied a license...
(Photo by Rob Kruyt - Ken Rakhra, owner of Nilam Trucking, was one of 600 workers expecting to lose work because of Port Metro Vancouver’s new truck licensing system) -- Vancouver, British Columbia, CAN - Business Vancouver, by Jen St. Denis - April 23, 2015Labels: owner-drivers, rules and regulations
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