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COVID Restrictions on Religious Gatherings Don’t Violate Charter Rights
The RCMP ticketed and later arrested a pastor for violating public health restrictions on the [...]
Laid Off Ironworker Loses His OHS Reprisal Case
Frustrated by repeated denials of time off to care for his ailing father, an ironworker [...]
Trucking Firm Fined $120,000 for Unloading Operation Fatality
A worker unloading masonry slabs of countertop material weighing several hundred pounds each from a [...]
Does Legalized Marijuana Provide More Leeway for Random Drug Testing?
The union contended that unannounced random urine drug testing of safety-sensitive public airport workers, in [...]
Additional Tools, Insight & Solutions
Does Use of Fall Protection System Eliminate Need for Guardrail?
SITUATION An employer installs a platform running the length of the cargo hold of its shipping vessel for workers to [...]
Can an Employer Ban Workers from Wearing a Particular Shoe?
SITUATION A resort worker injures her ankle while wearing sneakers with a curved platform sole intended to tone muscles. She [...]
Does Workers? Comp Cover an Injury Suffered after a Worker Quits?
Situation A worker quits his job as a long distance truck driver, giving 14 days' notice. He completes a delivery [...]
Yukon Emergency Preparedness Handbook
Yukon Energy is the primary generator and transmitter of power to Yukoners. Because of this, we are also one of [...]
WSIAT Expands the Scope of Entitlement for Traumatic Mental Stress
A recent decision of the Ontario Workplace Safety and Insurance Appeals Tribunal ('the Tribunal') has significantly expanded the scope of [...]
Workplace Domestic Violence Checklist
BENEFITS An employer's duty to protect workers from violence in the workplace includes domestic or family violence, which can spill [...]
Workplace Safety in the Oil & Gas Industry
The oil and gas industry is one of the more hazardous sectors in Canada. For example, in 2010, there were [...]
Electrical Safety Program Checklist
BENEFITS Employers have a duty to identify, assess and control the risk of worker exposure to electrical hazards in the [...]