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)
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.
Excerpt from the OH&S Canada magazine (December 2016)
A large grain farm in the village of Leask, Saskatchewan was fined $1,500 on October 06, 2016, for failing to report a workplace incident to the province’s oh&s authorities two years earlier.
Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
A worker was injured during the delivery of a steer to a holding barn. Contrary to safety procedures, Peel Meat Packers Ltd. failed, as an employer, to ensure a protective gate between the animal and worker was properly maintained, as outlined in the Occupational Health and Safety Act.