Posts Tagged As: worker protection

Blog Post #1553 – Two Oxford County Construction Companies Fined a Total of $400,000 After Workplace Fatalities and Injuries

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Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’

Two workers died and four others were critically injured when a section of a building under construction collapsed. iSpan Systems LP (iSpan) failed to ensure that a building, structure or any part thereof, was capable of supporting any loads that may be applied to it. East Elgin Concrete Forming Ltd. (East Elgin) failed to provide proper information, instruction and supervision, specifically on the use of proper concrete measuring techniques on the project. Both offences are contrary to the Occupational Health and Safety Act.

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Blog Post #1551 – RCMP Reaches Settlement

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Excerpt from the OH&S Canada magazine (December 2016)

Canada’s national police force has reached a settlement in two class-action lawsuits regarding accusations of sexual harassment and gender-based discrimination among its members by offering a compensation package totalling a $1oo million for several hundred women who have served with the force over the past 42 years.

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