Occupational Health & Safety

A Best Services Pro supervisor who did not tell the company about his son’s deteriorating mental health before the son fatally beat a security guard at UBC Okanagan was acting… …

A library web technician who said a new manager’s conduct and a co-worker’s suicide left him with a psychological injury is not entitled to workers’ compensation, British Columbia’s Workers’ Compensation… …

A steward whose supervisor told her she was the company’s most expensive employee, and that each of her workers’ compensation claims cost $35,000, has lost her bid for compensation for …

A B.C. construction labourer cut off from work weeks after reporting safety concerns was the target of a prohibited reprisal, the Workers’ Compensation Appeal Tribunal has ruled. The tribunal reached… …

A British Columbia non-profit program manager who was let go about two and a half months after her bullying and harassment complaint was resolved lost her job because of funding …

A newly hired Indigenous project superintendent who was fired in a fast-food restaurant in front of Elders, hours after his manager refused his request to have a job site blessed,… …

Bell Canada treated a manager on long-term disability leave as though she had recovered when it ended her employment and her disability coverage before a medically recommended graduated return to… …

A Workday quality assurance engineer who sought $300 million in damages over a manager’s note describing him as aggressive has had his defamation lawsuit dismissed by the Supreme Court of… …

An RCMP constable barred from operational police work for almost five years after an epileptic seizure will have his human rights complaint reheard after the Federal Court found the tribunal …

The estate of an Ontario stationary engineer who died of esophageal cancer in 2002 is entitled to workers’ compensation benefits, the Ontario Workplace Safety and Insurance Appeals Tribunal has ruled,… …