Excerpt from the OH&S Canada magazine (June 2016)
Nova Scotia has become the first Canadian province to provide official guidelines for support and inclusion of transgender and gender-variant employees in civil service.
Blog Post #1366 – Store Fined for Voyeurism
Excerpt from the OH&S Canada magazine (July 2016)
A computer and electronics dealer fined $2,100 after pleading guilty to occupational health and safety charges over a 2014 complaint from an employee who found a video camera concealed in the staff washroom.
Blog Post #1349 – Sobeys in Tantallon, Nova Scotia, Discriminated Against Shopper: Ruling
Excerpt from the OH&S Canada magazine (Nov. 2015)
An independent human-rights Board of inquiry has determined that a woman who was accused of being a repeat shoplifter by staff of food retailers Sobeys in Tantallon, Nova Scotia was a victim of discrimination.
Blog Post #1334 – Safety Issues in “No-Go Zones”: Union
Excerpt from the OH&S Canada magazine (November 2015)
Written by Jeff Cottrill, Editor
Safety issues in British Columbia’s social-worker sector have resulted in “no-go zones” throughout the province that aboriginal child-youth and family workers avoid, according to a report from the BC Government and Service employees’ Union (BCGEU).