Excerpt from the OH&S Canada magazine
An Alberta oil worker who succumbed to his injuries after suffering a crushing impact to the head became the third worker in the province to die in as many days in October.
Blog Post #497 – Disabled Worker Faced Discrimination
Excerpt from the OH&S Canada magazine
The BC Human Rights Tribunal in Vancouver has awarded $36,000 in damages to a worker who was subjected to discrimination based on her disability.
Blog Post #496 – Teranorth Construction Engineering Limited Fined $115,000 after Worker Killed
Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
Teranorth Construction & Engineering Limited, a Sudbury constructor, was fined $115,000 for a violation of the Occupational Health and Safety Act after a worker was killed.
Blog Post #495 – Bullying Bosses: When Harassment is Not Discrimination
What legal remedies do employees have if they are verbally or non-verbally bullied by their supervisor or co-workers? In the workplace, bullying can include behaviours such as: damaging your reputation; humiliating you in public; accusing you of lack of effort; calling you names; insulting, teasing, or intimidating you; preventing your access to opportunities; isolating you physically or socially; imposing undue pressure to produce work; setting impossible deadlines; making consistent unnecessary disruptions; failing to give you credit; assigning meaningless tasks; setting you up for failure; or removing responsibility (C. Rayner, H. Hoel, C. Cooper, Workplace Bullying: What We Know, Who is to Blame and What We Can Do, London: Taylor and Francis, 2002).