Drugs and Alcohol

A drill operator dismissed from Iron Ore Company of Canada’s mine in Labrador City, N.L., has been reinstated after a labour arbitrator found the company lacked reasonable cause to order… …

A Marine Atlantic Inc. ferry engineer fired for drinking vodka to the point of intoxication aboard a vessel has kept his job, after the Nova Scotia Supreme Court upheld an… …

An arbitrator has ordered a British Columbia school district to suspend a medical monitoring program requiring a special education assistant to submit to thrice-daily breathalyzer tests and random uri… Free …

HR Law Canada is launching a new half-day virtual event on drug and alcohol testing in the Canadian workplace and has opened a call for speakers to take part. Under …

A British Columbia youth care worker who spent four months on paid leave while investigators examined allegations she used drugs at work and mishandled cash has lost her bid for …

Five SaskEnergy natural gas workers who were sent for drug and alcohol testing after two separate gas line strikes have had their compensation awards upheld by the Saskatchewan Court of …

A conductor with Alstom Transport Canada Inc., the contractor that operates and maintains GO Transit’s rail fleet for Metrolinx, who was fired after refusing a post-incident drug and alcohol test …

A Canadian National Railway Company maintenance worker who was fired both for a workplace safety incident and for testing positive for marijuana has been ordered reinstated by a labour arbitrator,… …

The Saskatchewan Labour Relations Board has dismissed an appeal by GFL Environmental and upheld a wage assessment for a worker who was fired after testing positive for cannabis. The Board …

A worker who drove a vehicle stopped for a random drug dog search at a liquefied natural gas construction site near Kitimat, B.C. has had his privacy complaint against the …