Ontario Village Pays $75,000 Fine in Death of Volunteer Firefighter During Ice Water Training Exercise
This is the week for blog posts on volunteer fire departments. The situation involving the Village of Point Edward, near Sarnia, was […]
This is the week for blog posts on volunteer fire departments. The situation involving the Village of Point Edward, near Sarnia, was […]
In an unusual case, the Ontario Ministry of Labour has charged a small town’s volunteer fire department with safety offences […]
In a case involving an environmental prosecution, an Ontario justice of the peace has concluded that a “wrong company has […]
An Ontario Justice of the Peace has rejected a roofing company’s argument that a Ministry of Labour inspector’s request that […]
An Occupational Health and Safety Co-ordinator has been found guilty of a violation of Nova Scotia’s Occupational Health and Safety […]
A U.S. judge has acquitted an in-house lawyer on obstruction charges, in part because she consulted widely with outside counsel. […]
An Ontario Superior Court judge has reinstated an Occupational Health and Safety Act prosecution that “went off the rails” because of […]
A vice-chair of the Ontario Labour Relations Board has suggested, without finally deciding the point, that the OLRB has no authority […]
The Ontario Court of Appeal has dismissed a “material handling” prosecution involving a road vehicle that was not actually or […]
A new “model” of construction, where a “construction manager” was used instead of a “traditional general contractor”, did not insulate […]
Employers often ask us whether their employees can be forced to give a statement to an Ontario Ministry of Labour […]