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Can Employer Fire Worker for Threatening to Bring a Gun to Work?
SITUATION A retail store worker, who's dating a cop, complains to her department manager about a co-worker's hours being cut. [...]
Can Employer Fire HIV+ Worker for Safety Concerns?
SITUATION A senior worker at a cleaning company who has an excellent employment record is diagnosed with HIV but doesn't [...]
Can a Municipality Be Forced to Pay for a Private Party’s Pollution?
SITUATION Several hundred litres of furnace oil leak from the basement of a privately owned building onto property that the [...]
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 [...]