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 …
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PREMIUM Support worker in Ontario awarded benefits for second-hand smoke-aggravated airway disease
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… …
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PREMIUM Stericycle worker’s firing over blood spill, safety breaches upheld
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… …
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PREMIUM Educational assistant denied mental stress benefits after special needs work
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… …
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Weyerhaeuser fined $355K after worker killed at Grande Prairie, Alta., lumber mill
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 …
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PREMIUM B.C. arbitrator tosses final warning for technician who photographed unsafe coworker
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… …
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Mining companies fined $210K after worker fatally injured in helicopter operation
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 …
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PREMIUM Nova Scotia worker loses bid for psychological injury benefits after COVID dispute with boss
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… …
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Aecon Utilities fined $175,000 after worker drowned in flooded trench in King City, Ont.
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. …
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Worker fired for skipping fall protection loses EI benefits on appeal
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 …