Former WIN Executive Win Case Against TV Company

Called by his employers as the “manager of toilet trolls and weeds”, Rodney Hockey, the television executive who lodged a lawsuit against his WIN bosses, whom he claimed owed him $400,000 as per his contract, has been granted a win by the federal court.

In a decision handed down early Thursday, Justice Alan Robertson declared that the contract between Mr. Hockey and his WIN employers entitled him to the money.

Mr. Hockey’s contract with his former television employers explicitly stated that he will still be paid up until September of this year upon his termination. Mr. Hockey left WIN in February of 2012.

In the lawsuit, Mr. Hockey, who worked with the company since 1985, had claimed he was being bullied and intimidated by WIN. He also named his boss, Mr. Bruce Gordon, as someone who called him an “idiot” and a “lump of wood”. The harassment, Mr. Hockey said, has been detrimental to his health.

Positions for General Manager in the WIN company have been disbanded beginning March 2011, when Mr. Hockey started growing concerns about intimidation by Mr. Gordon and his son, Andrew Gordon, who is the company’s executive chairman.

Mr. Hockery relates that the younger Gordon said to him, “We agree that if you accept one of the new roles and the intimidation starts again, you can just opt out and have your contract paid in full.”

The total figures Mr. Hockey is expected to collect from WIN was calculated by the court to amount to $404,490.

“[They] essentially attempted to bully him into accepting less than he was entitled to. So congratulations to Rod Hockey for having the courage and fortitude to stand up to them,” Mr. Hockey’s lawyers said.

WIN has not yet released a statement regarding this case.