Dentons Canadian Occupational Health & Safety Law
Keeping you current on OHS Laws and Developments in Canada.
This case serves as an example of what degree of conduct will or will not constitute obstruction of an officer […]
A worker’s comment that “I guess I’d have to kill you” was clearly inappropriate but did not constitute wilful misconduct […]
Courts should discourage employers from suing employees for making safety complaints to the Ministry of Labour, an Ontario Small Claims […]
A Saskatchewan labourer has pleaded guilty to fraud after having been caught collecting workers compensation benefits following his return to […]
An Ontario court has dismissed two charges under the Occupational Health and Safety Act against a tourist resort after the Ministry […]
We all know people who get light-headed at the sight of blood. The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) […]
The Ontario Labour Relations Board has held that Minutes of Settlement signed in the settlement of an application at the […]
An employee has won a reinstatement order under the Occupational Health and Safety Act after the Ontario Labour Relations Board held that […]
After an employee’s union grieved that the employer had failed to return him to work “notwithstanding that he has provided […]
Work Safe Alberta has recently revised a Bulletin regarding some aggressive, high pressure sales tactics being used by some WHMIS […]
Just because members of the public call for the firing of an employee for yelling sexual taunts at a TV […]
An adjudicator has held that the Occupational Health and Safety Act‘s “general duty” clause did not require an employer to […]
