Once is Enough: OLRB Dismisses Safety Reprisal Complaint Already Resolved by Arbitrator
Employers sometimes despair over employees who file multiple claims over the same issue. The Ontario Labour Relations Board has decided […]
Employers sometimes despair over employees who file multiple claims over the same issue. The Ontario Labour Relations Board has decided […]
In a surprising decision, an Ontario arbitrator has decided that a picketing employee’s comment to his fellow picketers that “I should have brought […]
A Justice of the Peace has reaffirmed that Ontario’s safety laws are intended to protect not only safe workers, but also workers […]
The Occupational Health and Safety Act does not require that workers be “contemporaneously supervised at all times”, an Ontario appeal […]
The Ontario Labour Relations Board has reinstated an employee who was fired shortly after he engaged in a work refusal […]
An Ontario appeal court has overturned a conviction under the Occupational Health and Safety Act because there was no basis […]
An engineer’s inspection report must use the specific language “not likely to endanger a worker” in order to comply with […]
Where a 143-page contract made clear that a contractor was the “constructor” under health and safety legislation, the Yukon government, […]
A supervisor at a Quebec automobile dealership has pleaded guilty to a criminal charge arising out of a workplace accident […]
An employer struggling with how to comply with a Ministry of Labour inspector’s safety compliance order cannot expect the MOL […]
A journeyman electrician employed by Hydro One Inc. was properly dismissed because, during an altercation, he pushed another employee causing […]
An employee who drove a loaded forklift in the forward direction with his view obstructed was properly issued a five-day […]