Posts Tagged As: worker safety

Blog Post #1544 – Mining Company Charged

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

Toronto-based mining company Glenmore Canada Corporation is facing multiple charges over the death of 54-year-old Richard Pigeau, who was killed when a piece of machinery struck him on the Nickel Rim South Mine in Sudbury on October 20, 2015.

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Blog Post #1541 – Class-Action Lawsuit Launched

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

A group of LGBTQ individuals has launched a class-action lawsuit against the federal government, claiming decades’ worth of discrimination and persecution during their past employment as civil servants or military personnel. Many of them allegedly lost their jobs in a long-time purge of homosexual employees dating back to the 1950s.

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