The Yukon government, workers' compensation board and Mike Travill, the former workers' advocate for the territory, are keeping quiet about a settlement reached more than two years after Travill was fired.

In October 2007, Robert Riches, then the assistant deputy Justice minister, sacked Travill for collecting his regular salary from the compensation board while getting paid to sit on a separate review panel of the territory's Workers' Compensation Act.

While Travill ignored instructions to take leave from his advocate job during the review process, he claimed e-mails would prove he put in the necessary hours, outside of his day job, to complete his role on the panel.

Following Travill's termination, Liberal Leader Arthur Mitchell charged it was to settle political scores by dumping his party's 2006 campaign manager.

During last Thursday's question period, Mitchell pressed the government on who would pay Travill's settlement – the Yukon Workers' Compensation, Health and Safety Board, or the government.

"Can the (Justice) minister confirm that the grievance was indeed upheld and can she tell Yukoners what this unjust firing is going to cost Yukon taxpayers?” Mitchell asked.

Justice Minister Marian Horne responded that she did not have any information. However, Mitchell's questioning finally lured Premier Dennis Fentie to his feet, and he acknowledged that "due process has worked.”

Yukon Employees' Union president Laurie Butterworth confirmed Travill's wrongful dismissal case was settled in Travill's favour, but could offer no details.

"We're always happy when we win one,” Butterworth said of the successful arbitration that was handled by adjudicators from the federal government.

"I haven't even seen (the decision), but at the end of the day, talking too much about it, I could end up (breaking) some kind of confidentiality agreement.”

The Star has learned that the government, not the workers' compensation board, will pay Travill's undisclosed settlement.

Calls to the compensation board were referred to Glenn Hart, the minister responsible for the board, who did not respond as of press time early this afternoon.

Travill also did not respond to a request for comment on the matter.

However, back in October 2007, he did tell the Star that Mitchell was "quite bang-on” when the Liberal leader suggested that Travill's termination was politically motivated.