Dentons Canadian Occupational Health & Safety Law
Keeping you current on OHS Laws and Developments in Canada.
A laid-off worker’s safety-retaliation complaint under the Occupational Health and Safety Act has been dismissed because it was really a complaint […]
A shelter support worker’s persistent pattern of sexual comments to five female coworkers justified his dismissal for cause, despite the […]
A supervisor’s Occupational Health and Safety Act conviction of failing to sufficiently and competently supervise work has been upheld on […]
A machine shop teacher’s work refusal was not justified, an appeals tribunal has decided, given that the teacher had the […]
An Ontario Appeal judge has upheld an employer’s conviction under the Occupational Health and Safety Act for failure to “block” a […]
After a dramatic and tragic incident in which a large drill rig fell over at York University, fatally injuring a […]
An employee whose medical condition had improved both before and after termination has been reinstated for further consideration of possible […]
An employee has been convicted of dangerous operation of a motor vehicle after he drove towards his boss three times, […]
An employer has lost a wrongful dismissal case after a court found that its safety rules, which it alleged the […]
Even though an employer’s harassment investigation was allegedly slow, inadequate and had a questionable outcome, the employee had not suffered […]
A B.C. bartender has lost his human rights complaint after he was dismissed for smoking marijuana on shift. The bartender […]
An employer has beat occupational health and safety charges laid after its supervisor caused an explosion when he defied instructions […]
