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Due Diligence 2022, The 17th Annual Scorecard

While the paramount objective is to prevent OHS violations and injuries, nobody expects you to be [...]

The 13 Most Important OHS Cases of 2022

Technically, courts and legislatures are supposed to make the laws while courts, arbitrators and [...]

Arbitrator Finds Three-Dose Mandatory Vaccination Requirement Reasonable In Long-Term Care Homes

In Regional Municipality of York v Canadian Union of Public Employees, Local 905 (Long Term Care [...]

Arbitrator Upholds Mandatory 3-Dose Vaccination Policy

Having lost its case against the previous 2-dose mandatory COVID vaccination policy, the union [...]

Union Loses Bid to Overturn Mandatory Vaccination Policy for Lack of Notice

Sec. 54 of the Labour Relations Code requires employers to give at least 60 days’ notice [...]

Ontario Company Fined $125K For COVID-19 Outbreak And Fatality

In a significant first, an employer in Ontario has been prosecuted for a COVID-19 related death. On [...]

Employee Who Refused to Mask Told by Court That Losses Were “Self-Inflicted”

Employers and employees saw the workplace change rapidly since March 2020. After a whirlwind of [...]

Spring Cleaning: Out With The Old COVID-19 Regulations

On April 14, 2022, the Ontario Government filed O. Reg 346/22: Revoking Various Regulations, which [...]

Key Trends In Arbitration Awards Pertaining To Mandatory COVID-19 Vaccination Policies

Since late fall 2021, we have seen a steady flow of arbitration awards emerge in Ontario and [...]

COVID-19 Vaccination Policies: Early Employer Successes In Round Two

A number of arbitration awards dealing with COVID-19 vaccination policies were released in late [...]

Arbitrator Decides Employer Could Terminate Employee Who Refused Government-Ordered Vaccination

On April 4, 2022, in Fraser Health Authority v British Columbia General Employees’ Union [...]

Can You Make Unvaccinated Workers Pay for Their Own COVID Tests?

Although vaccine mandates are coming down, the litigation battle continues. There have now been [...]

If Vaccine Passports Are Dead, Should Vaccine Policies Be Too?

Over the last year, many employers have introduced mandatory COVID 19 vaccine policies into their [...]

Part one: BC Relaxes COVID-19 Workplace Measures

British Columbia continues to take steps toward relaxing COVID-19 workplace safety requirements and [...]

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