Dentons Canadian Occupational Health & Safety Law
Keeping you current on OHS Laws and Developments in Canada.
An employer’s introduction of a new two-page sick leave medical form did not violate the collective agreement, a labour arbitrator […]
An employer went too far when it banned smoking by employees during their shift, including during breaks and off the […]
The project manager who supervised the four workers who died after a swing stage scaffold collapsed on Christmas Eve, 2009, […]
A Nova Scotia court has imposed a “creative sentence” for a violation of the Occupational Health and Safety Act, requiring […]
An employer’s appeal challenging a departed employee’s workers’ compensation entitlements may proceed, despite being filed after the employer, union and […]
Health Canada and the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) have announced that they will “continue their partnership” to “align […]
The Ontario government has introduced legislation that will, among other things, quintuple the maximum fine against corporations for violating the […]
A safety officer’s compliance order has been suspended where the cost of compliance would be so high that it could […]
Please join us for a complimentary half-day employment law seminar in Toronto on Friday, June 5th. We will cover the […]
A former Safety Manager in California is among those charged with “willfully violating worker safety rules”, allegedly causing the death […]
In an unusual case, a construction site superintendent has won entitlement to workers compensation benefits after persuading an appeals tribunal […]
The Ontario Ministry of Labour has released its schedule of workplace inspection blitzes for the period from May 2015 to […]
