Report from the OH&S Canada magazine – March 2017
Report by Jean Liam
A working group tasked to review employment and labour standards for Alberta agriculture sector has recommended that farm workers should not get overtime pay and that family members who work on farms should be exempted from all employment and labour standards.
Excerpt from the OH&S Canada magazine (March 2017)
A group of thirteen Calgary Police Service (CPS) members has filed complaints of bullying and harassment against their employer.
Excerpt from the OH&S Canada magazine (March 2017)
An internal report by the previous Alberta government has revealed that the Progressive Conservatives were fully aware that the province’s agriculture sector needed mandatory workers’ compensation coverage.
My opinion
Just to give the reader some common frame of reference, the Ontario government enacted legislation in the Ontario Occupational Health and Safety Act (OHSA) in 2010. (It has since been updated 3-4 times)