Federal: Harassment & Violence

Jan 1: A new stand-alone regulation takes effect requiring federally-regulated employers to:

• Develop harassment and violence prevention policies jointly with employees or their representatives, e.g., the workplace safety committee
• Do joint hazard assessment every 3 years and when resolution process fails or other trigger events occur
• Deliver jointly developed training at least every 3 years
• Give victims information about where they can go for support services
• Offer victim several resolution options including early resolution, conciliation and investigation
• Meet specific deadlines in implementing the resolution process
• Provide annual workplace violence and harassment report to safety committee or workers and to government.