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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 …

A British Columbia arbitrator has overturned a final written warning issued to a senior guideway technician at ProTrans BC Operations after the worker photographed a coworker cutting rail without a… …

Two mining companies have been fined a combined $210,000 after a worker died during a helicopter equipment-moving operation near Wawa, Ont. Angus Gold Inc. was fined $110,000 and G4 Drilling …

A worker’s claim for psychological injury benefits has been denied after the Nova Scotia Workers’ Compensation Appeals Tribunal found insufficient evidence that workplace stressors caused a compensable mental injury. The… …

Aecon Utilities Inc. has been fined $175,000 after a worker was fatally injured in a water-and-silt slurry that filled an excavation trench during heavy rainfall at a King City worksite. …

A worker who climbed atop a sand truck without fall protection and was later fired has been disqualified from receiving employment insurance benefits, after the Social Security Tribunal of Canada’s …

A personal support worker who contracted COVID-19 from a resident at an Ontario seniors’ home has won ongoing entitlement to benefits for post-COVID syndrome, after the Workplace Safety and Insurance… …

A New Brunswick arbitrator has ordered AlumaSafway to pay a carpenter a full day’s wages and room and board allowance after the worker was hospitalized with chest pains during his… …