Canadian Occupational Health & Safety Law
Keeping you current on OHS Laws and Developments in Canada.
The Ontario Ministry of Labour has previously stated that it intends to pass a regulation requiring employers to provide safety […]
Back in 2011, Ontario employers learned that the government had passed Bill 160, or An Act to amend the Occupational […]
The Ontario Ministry of Labour has released a Fact Sheet that provides guidance to workers and employers on the safety-reprisal […]
Basing a harassment-reprisal complaint on a text message is risky when one cannot prove that the text message was ever […]
The Saskatchewan legislature completed its first reading of a proposed new law, Bill 27, known as “Jimmy’s Law” on December […]
The Ontario Ministry of Labour has announced that it intends to pass a regulation that will introduce a mandatory safety awareness […]
On December 16th, the Ontario Ministry of Labour announced the following: The MOL said that it intends to propose a […]
WorkSafe BC (the province’s occupational health and safety regulator) has proposed amendments to BC’s “gas -and-dash” laws. Currently retailers in […]
In previous posts, we reported that the Ontario Labour Relations Board had expressed doubt about whether it has jurisdiction to […]
Arguing that his “termination would not have happened” had his employer complied with Bill 168 and thus addressed his harassment […]
Workplace threats are now “violence” in Ontario and justify strong discipline, the decision of an Ontario arbitrator suggests. Bill 168 […]
On Thursday last week, the B.C. government announced that it will amend the B.C. Workers Compensation Act to extend coverage […]
