Dentons Canadian Occupational Health & Safety Law
Keeping you current on OHS Laws and Developments in Canada.
A worker’s comment that “I guess I’d have to kill you” was clearly inappropriate but did not constitute wilful misconduct […]
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 […]
A hydro worker’s sexual harassment of a co-worker, including an offensive sexual joke, justified his dismissal, the Ontario Labour Relations […]
The Ontario Labour Relations Board has ordered an employer to reinstate an apartment building “office administrative superintendent” who alleged that […]
An employee’s mental disability, unknown to his employer at the time of dismissal, played no role in the reason he […]
A snowplow driver’s bad driving record, not his workplace violence complaint, was the reason for his dismissal, the Ontario Labour […]
An employee on a “last-chance” agreement was fired for cause for his “aggressive, condescending and rude” behaviour including discussing sensitive […]
Although a temporary employee had no termination protection under the collective agreement, he did have the right to advance a […]
In an unusual case, a construction site superintendent has won entitlement to workers compensation benefits after persuading an appeals tribunal […]
A 6’2′, 300-lb employee’s hostile, intimidating comment to a smaller co-worker in the company washroom was just cause for a […]
A 57 year old employee with 36 years of service was properly fired for one incident in which he cut […]
