Human Resources and Health & Safety Articles

A new regulation under the Occupational Health and Safety Act (“OHSA”) requires that workers and supervisors are provided with basic health and safety awareness training. These training requirements come into

Commissioners of oaths are persons who are empowered under provincial legislation to administer and witness the swearing of oaths or solemn affirmations in the taking of an affidavit for any

Employers are required to deal effectively with workplace harassment. Historically, individual managers have been liable only in the worst cases. But a new decision out of the Human Rights Tribunal

A recent, precedent-setting decision of a Tribunal assembled by McMasterUniversity (the “Tribunal”) to hear serious allegations of harassment in the work place demonstrates that harassment complaints have traction, and can

On Wednesday, the Canadian federal government introduced Bill C-13, a ‘new’ cyberbullying bill to address the increasingly harmful effects of intimate images going viral online.  The cyberbullying proposals are part

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High impact claims* is a term used to identify allowed lost time claims that have been shown to have significant impacts on workers and employers. The WSIB is focused on

A recent case illustrates the importance of conducting a careful, sensitive investigation of sexual harassment complaints.  An employer’s “unpardonable” response to a sexual harassment complaint has resulted in an arbitrator’s

There are stereotypes about what bullies—both workplace and schoolyard—and their victims are typically like. If I described a worker as a 6’5” man in his 20s weighing more than 300

Most OHS laws require workers to take reasonable care to protect not only their own health and safety but also that of co-workers and other people in the workplace. So