Workplace News

New Brunswick’s Department of Post-Secondary Education, Training and Labour is reminding employers of the rules for hiring workers under 16 as students prepare for summer break. Under the Employment S… …

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 fuel technician has been sentenced to 15 days in jail and fined $10,000 plus a victim surcharge for fuel safety violations in Ontario. The Ontario Court of Justice handed …

The New Brunswick Human Rights Commission is mourning the death of Randy Dickinson, a longtime disability rights advocate who chaired the commission from 2010 to 2015 and served as a …

Newfoundland and Labrador has appointed lawyer Keri-Lynn Power to lead a statutory review of the province’s Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act, 2015. Justice Minister Helen Conway Ott… …

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 Boston Pizza manager in Pembroke, Ont., has been fined $15,000 for giving falsified documents to a provincial labour investigator. Sameer Devgon, the manager of a Boston Pizza franchise at …

The Ontario government has introduced new legislation that would strengthen workplace health and safety rules, improve labour mobility across Canada and streamline business permits and approvals. The … Free Membership …

The Ontario government has introduced proposed changes to the Employment Standards Act, 2000 that would prohibit employers from requiring workers to pay for mandatory uniforms or deducting those costs… Free …

The federal government will raise the federal minimum wage to $18.15 per hour on April 1, 2026, a 2.1% increase tied to last year’s inflation rate. The new rate applies …