COVID-19 Employer alert: Ontario issues “stay-at-home” order and new restrictions on businesses By Adrian Miedema, Claire Browne, and Larysa Workewych
General Ontario employers now legally required to screen employees coming to work – using the government’s “Screening Tool” By Adrian Miedema and Emily Kroboth
Caselaw Developments Safety Professionals - Practice Issues Constructively Dismissed Due to Workplace Mental Distress? You May Need to Go to the WSIB, not Courts By Adrian Miedema
Caselaw Developments Safety Professionals - Practice Issues WSIB fraud requires a wilful act, like tax evasion, appeal court decides By Adrian Miedema
Caselaw Developments Safety - Risk Management Ninety-day administrative driving suspension for impaired driving was not just cause to fire Assistant Fire Chief By Adrian Miedema
Caselaw Developments Violence and Harassment “Communications and conduct” of employer’s lawyer regarding sexual harassment investigation were not privileged, could be referred to in Claim, court decides By Adrian Miedema
Caselaw Developments Prosecutions / Charges Safety - Risk Management Owner of electrical contractor, who transferred assets due to looming charges, held personally liable for company’s $430,000 regulatory fine By Adrian Miedema
Caselaw Developments Violence and Harassment Female police officers’ class action claiming gender harassment dismissed because arbitrator, not courts, had jurisdiction By Adrian Miedema
Caselaw Developments Safety Professionals - Practice Issues Safety manager wins wrongful dismissal suit: he had not failed to complete assigned tasks, court decides By Adrian Miedema
Caselaw Developments Safety - Risk Management Safety Professionals - Practice Issues Court declines to quash “bid ban” imposed by City on paving company for safety and other reasons By Adrian Miedema
Caselaw Developments Prosecutions / Charges OHSA charges in fatality case dismissed for delay. Crown did not have “concrete plan” to move case along By Adrian Miedema
Caselaw Developments Prosecutions / Charges “Distracted” by cell phones, forklift operators were guilty of OHSA offence By Adrian Miedema
Government Safety Investigations Occupational Health and Safety Ontario considering introducing new heat stress and air quality requirements under the Occupational Health and Safety Act By Emily Kroboth and Adrian Miedema
Occupational Health and Safety An occupational health and safety update: What employers need to know in July 2023 By Emily Kroboth and Adrian Miedema
