Excerpt from the Summer 2022 Edition of the OH&S Canada magazine
Scottlynn Sweet Pac Growers in Vittoria, Ontario, plead guilty to health and safety violations after one of its workers contracted Covid-19 and died. It was fined $125,000 plus a 25% victim fine surcharge. The maximum fine the court could have imposed was $1.5 million.
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.
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).
Excerpt from the OH&S Canada magazine (November 2015)
Original report by Jean Lian, Editor of the magazine)
The wage data used by Alberta government officials to determine which Temporary Foreign Worker Program to approve are deeply flawed, according to documents uncovered by the Alberta Federation of Labour (AFL).