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Blog Post #389 – Delta Truck Company and Supervisor Fined $115,000 Total after Worker Killed

Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’

2236697 Ontario Inc., carrying on business as Delta Truck Equipment, a truck maintenance company, was fined $100,000 for a violation of the Occupational Health and Safety Act after a worker was killed. Phillip Hutton, a supervisor, was fined $15,000 in relation to the same incident.

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Blog Post #381 – Farm Workers Have Right to Bargain

strong>Excerpt from the OH&S Canada magazine – January 2009

A landmark decision from the Court of Appeal for Ontario gives the province a year to table legislation to allow agricultural workers to bargain collectively.

In its ruling, the three-member panel unanimously declared Ontario’s Agricultural Employees Protection Act (AEPA) “unconstitutional” and “invalid,” ordering the provincial government to “provide agricultural workers with sufficient protections to enable them to exercise their right to bargain collectively.”