Posts Categorized As: Employment Standard

Blog Post #1730 – OHS Leadership Across Borders

Report from the CSA Group – May 2025

In an increasingly interconnected world, globalization is transforming occupational health and safety (OHS) in workplaces across Canada and beyond. As organizations expand across borders, so too do the challenges of maintaining consistent safety standards. However, this global shift also brings opportunities, allowing countries to collaborate, share leading practices, and improve workplace safety on an international scale. For more than 75 years, CSA Group has been at the forefront of OHS standards development, shaping policies that influence not only Canadian workplaces but also the North American and global OHS landscape.

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Blog Post #1710 – Ontario Court Upholds For-Cause Dismissal of Health & Safety Manager for Mishandling of Her Own WSIB Claim

Report by –  Maria Constantine

 Employment & Labour

In Lagala v. Patene Building Supplies Ltd.,1 the Ontario Superior Court of Justice dismissed a wrongful termination claim commenced by the former Health, Safety and Training Manager of a building supply company whose employment had been terminated for cause. The employee had been dismissed following her failure to report her own workplace accident and injury to her employer for over six months and her non-adherence to workplace safety policies – the very policies that she was responsible for drafting and enforcing.

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