A B.C. construction company executive has resigned from his job, less than a week after having defamation suit against a Cactus Club restaurant and its employees tossed out in B.C. Supreme Court.
Dwight Brissette, senior vice president for Ledcor, was suing the popular Coal Harbour restaurant following June 2013 incident in which the restaurant claimed he touched the server’s backside, called her “Kitty Kat” and then swore at the manager when she asked his party to leave.
Justice Miriam Gropper said she took the words of the restaurant employees over the word of Brissette, whose memory she said might have been impaired by the quantity of alcohol he drank.
In his testimony Brissette acknowledged he drank five nine-ounce glasses of wine and one or two 2-ounce shots of tequila, but denied being inebriated.
On Monday, Ledcor, in an email from company spokesman David Hoff, told the Vancouver Sun that “in response to recent events, Ledcor’s senior executives and Dwight Brissette, SVP of Health and Safety met today to discuss Ledcor’s employee code of conduct and senior executive expectations. As a result, Mr. Brissette has tendered his resignation, effective immediately.”
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Calls to Hoff were not returned.
In a company memo leaked to the Vancouver Sun, Ledcor president & CEO Ron Stevenson thanked Brissette for his “many years of service and the contributions he made to Ledcor’s health and safety program.”
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