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The fact that the Ontario Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) funding deficit, which now stands at $12.36 billion, has reached “alarming” proportions is not news. But when the WSIB actually uses the word “alarming” in its own annual report, it’s a sign of just …
Various kinds of inappropriate conduct by workers can establish “just cause” for their termination, such as poor job performance, harassment, violence, theft of company property, etc. But can an employer fire a worker for swearing on the job? Here are two cases in which arbitrators …
Pesticides are most dangerous when in concentrated form. On most farms, this means when they’re in storage. This video demonstrates the importance of – and requirements for – proper storage to avoid pesticide poisoning.
Your company can avoid liability for environmental violations by proving that it took all reasonable steps to comply with environmental law and prevent the violation—in other words, that it exercised “due diligence.” But nowhere in the law does it spell out exactly what “reasonable steps” …
Your company can avoid liability for environmental violations by proving that it took all reasonable steps to comply with environmental law and prevent the violation—in other words, that it exercised “due diligence.” But nowhere in the law does it spell out exactly what “reasonable steps” …
At a manufacturing plant, a worker was operating a vertical lathe when her hand got caught between the chuck and the tooling turret as she was lowering the chuck to load a piece into it. Her hand was seriously crushed. The manufacturer was convicted of …
At a manufacturing plant, a worker was operating a vertical lathe when her hand got caught between the chuck and the tooling turret as she was lowering the chuck to load a piece into it. Her hand was seriously crushed. The manufacturer was convicted of …
The oil and gas industry is one of the more hazardous sectors in Canada. For example, in 2010, there were 16 fatalities in the upstream oil and gas industry in Alberta alone and 83 serious injuries in the industry in BC that year. So it’s …
The oil and gas industry is one of the more hazardous sectors in Canada. For example, in 2010, there were 16 fatalities in the upstream oil and gas industry in Alberta alone and 83 serious injuries in the industry in BC that year. So it’s …
