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A regional manager who suffered a severe stroke while working from home will not receive workers’ compensation benefits, after the New Brunswick Workers’ Compensation Appeals Tribunal upheld a decision that… …

British Columbia Hydro and Power Authority has failed to overturn a finding that it discouraged a worker from reporting a mental-disorder injury to the province’s workers’ compensation board. The Supreme… …

A long-serving machine operator who said he was bullied and belittled by his supervisor for years has won entitlement to benefits for chronic mental stress, after the Workplace Safety and… …

An arbitrator has ruled that employees of the Waterloo Region District School Board who are denied loss-of-earnings benefits by the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board cannot turn to sick leave… …

A former butcher has lost his bid for workers’ compensation after the Court of Appeal of New Brunswick upheld a tribunal’s finding that there was no link between his job… …

The Newfoundland and Labrador government has launched an independent review of the province’s workers’ compensation system and named a five-member committee to lead it. Provincial law requires the rev… Free …

A community support worker who breathed in second-hand cigarette smoke during years of home visits has been granted workers’ compensation benefits on the basis that the exposure aggravated her reactive… …

An Ontario arbitrator has upheld the termination of a Stericycle medical-waste worker and dismissed six grievances challenging a string of disciplinary actions, finding he repeatedly ignored safety rules and refused… …

An educational assistant who developed depression, anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder after years working with aggressive special needs students will not receive mental stress benefits, after Ontario’s Workplace Safety and… …

Weyerhaeuser Company Limited has been ordered to pay $355,000 after a worker died at a lumber mill near Grande Prairie, Alta. The company pleaded guilty on May 19 in the …