Distracted driving, and in particular texting while driving, are important occupational safety issues, and employers need to act, the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration says in a new brochure called...more
5/16/2013
- Canada Distracted Driving OHSA Texting
“Not every ailment amounts to a disability”, an adjudicator has held, in dismissing an employee’s grievance. Employers who often wonder what types of ailments or conditions amount to “disabilities” will find this decision...more
5/14/2013
- Canada Disability Discrimination Discrimination
In what appears to be a departure from a growing line of cases, the Ontario Labour Relations Board has permitted an employee to advance her claim that the employer violated the Occupational Health and Safety Act when it fired...more
5/7/2013
- Canada Hiring & Firing OHSA Safety Precautions Termination
A worker who refused to answer a Ministry of Labour inspector’s questions during an accident investigation has been found guilty of obstructing the inspector....more
5/2/2013
- Canada Inspections Ministry of Labour OHSA
The work refusal provisions of the Occupational Health and Safety Act should not be abused, an arbitrator has effectively held in overturning an employee’s dismissal but refusing reinstatement....more
4/30/2013
- Arbitration Canada Hiring & Firing OHSA Reinstatement
The City of Guelph acted reasonably when it relied on the stamped drawing of an architect and engineer as evidencing compliance with all legal requirements, an Ontario judge has held in dismissing an Occupational Health and...more
4/25/2013
- Canada OHSA Safety Precautions
Worker safety orientation is expected to become mandatory in Ontario on January 1, 2014, as we have previously advised. The Ontario Ministry of Labour is developing an e-learning module that workers and supervisors can take...more
4/16/2013
- Canada E-Learning OHSA Safety Precautions Safety Training
Supervisors and safety professionals have often told me that they fear being personally charged under the Occupational Health and Safety Act. Now, a human rights tribunal has decided that an employee’s generalized anxiety...more
4/3/2013
- Canada OHSA Workplace Injury
Health and safety and human resource consultants who conduct investigations or retain outside experts to do so, should pay attention to a court decision in which an Ontario man was convicted of acting as a private...more
3/21/2013
- Canada Licenses Private Investigators
An employee of a drive test centre has been jailed for accepting a bribe from a driving instructor, who has also been jailed....more
3/20/2013
- Bribery Canada
Workplace violence and harassment was the most common category of compliance orders made by Ontario Ministry of Labour inspectors in a recent compliance blitz in the manufacturing sector....more
3/19/2013
- Canada Harassment OHSA Workplace Violence
Usually employees complain about their managers, not the other way around.
In an interesting case, a group of managers, who complained that their workplace had been poisoned by the employer’s inaction in the face of...more
3/14/2013
- Anti-Harassment Policies Blogs Canada Harassment Managers
A supervisor’s violation of the Occupational Health and Safety Act can ground a criminal negligence charge against him, an Ontario preliminary inquiry judge has decided, sending the criminal charges to trial. We reported on...more
3/12/2013
- Criminal Negligence Safety Precautions Workplace Injury
