Occupational Health & Safety

The London Police Service failed to convince the Ontario Labour Relations Board to suspend a workplace safety order requiring it to take reasonable precautions to protect officers from physical injury… …

A steel construction and fabrication company has been fined $90,000 after a worker was seriously injured in an incident at a shop near Barrhead, Alta. Steele Tech Fabrication pleaded guilty …

By Daniel Côté, Université de Montréal In Québec, immigrants are more likely to be injured at work than people born in the province. Yet the hardest part for immigrant workers often starts after …

The Alberta Labour Relations Board has denied a bid by the International Brotherhood of Boilermakers, Local 146, to participate in an appeal of workplace safety penalties issued to Foremost Universal …

A railway conductor’s dismissal for accumulating demerits has been overturned after an arbitrator found that discipline imposed following a failed efficiency test was inappropriate under the company’s… Free Membership Required …

An Alberta worker has won an appeal overturning a Workers’ Compensation Board (WCB) decision that reduced his benefits at age 65, with the tribunal ruling there was sufficient evidence he …

A worker in British Columbia who claimed he developed a mental disorder during a two-year performance management program has lost his appeal after filing his compensation claim six years after …

A letter carrier who developed a mental disorder after her employer repeatedly dismissed her safety concerns about delivering mail to a property with dangerous dogs has won a partial appeal… …

The British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal has denied Fluor Constructors Canada’s application to defer a racism complaint filed by a former scaffolding worker who alleges he faced discrimination after… Free …

A Nova Scotia workers’ compensation appeals tribunal has ruled that a worker’s ongoing cognitive problems and headaches are connected to a workplace head injury he suffered nearly 20 years ago, …