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When Llewella Morgan submitted her resignation as chief pilot for Ottawa Senators owner Eugene Melnyk last May, she gave three weeks’ notice. Pretty standard stuff.

Four days later, she picked up Melnyk at his home in Barbados and flew him to Ottawa. The following day — May 15 — she noticed that her pay since April 30 had not been deposited in her bank account. That was unusual.

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After multiple inquiries, the pilot was told her services were no longer required and that she needn’t show up at Ottawa’s private aircraft hanger for her next scheduled flight — a trip to ferry Melnyk to Toronto.

The circumstances surrounding Morgan’s termination were the trigger for a legal skirmish that eventually wound up before Johanne Cavé, a vice-chair of the Ontario Labour Relations Board.

In a 20-page ruling published this month, Cavé ordered Capital Sports & Entertainment — the Senators’ operating firm — to pay Morgan $12,273.75 for unpaid wages, vacation pay and severance, in addition to a week’s worth of unpaid benefits. At most, the cost to the team would be $13,000.