Dentons Canadian Occupational Health & Safety Law
Keeping you current on OHS Laws and Developments in Canada.
An employee on a “last-chance” agreement was fired for cause for his “aggressive, condescending and rude” behaviour including discussing sensitive […]
Two superintendents have been found guilty of offences under Ontario’s Occupational Health and Safety Act and fined $4,000 each after […]
Unsafe operation of equipment is an easy way to get dismissed or charged with Occupational Health and Safety Act – […]
An employee who smoked marijuana on the job without legal and medical authorization was not discriminated against when dismissed under […]
An Ontario judge has refused to permit a professional engineer employed with the Ontario Ministry of Labour to testify as […]
An adjudicator with the office of Ontario’s Information and Privacy Commissioner has denied access to a Ministry of Labour inspector’s […]
Even though an employee “won” his safety-retaliation case under the Occupational Health and Safety Act after his employer failed to […]
Although a temporary employee had no termination protection under the collective agreement, he did have the right to advance a […]
An employer’s introduction of a new two-page sick leave medical form did not violate the collective agreement, a labour arbitrator […]
An employer went too far when it banned smoking by employees during their shift, including during breaks and off the […]
The project manager who supervised the four workers who died after a swing stage scaffold collapsed on Christmas Eve, 2009, […]
A Nova Scotia court has imposed a “creative sentence” for a violation of the Occupational Health and Safety Act, requiring […]
