Excerpt from the OH&S Canada magazine (July 2016)
Article by Jeff Cottrill, Editor
Less than two months after a reported at Canada’s largest newspaper took her own life, the publication has agreed to an external review of its workplace culture, but the union representing its journalists is pushing for a broader investigation into how that culture may have contributed to tragedy.
Excerpt from the OH&S Canada magazine (July 2016)
The Canadian Human Rights Tribunal has ordered a Calgary mobile phone-store $21,288 in compensation to a former sales manager, who lodged the complaint against her supervisor alleging multiple instances of sexual harassment.
Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’. A worker working at a home operated by Pathways to Independence was fatally injured as a result of an incident of workplace violence.
Excerpt from the OH&S Canada magazine (June 2016)
Following Manitoba’s recent adoption of legislation allowing paid and unpaid time off work with guaranteed job security for victims of domestic abuse, the New Brunswick Union (NBU) – the association for the province’s civil servants and government employees – is lobbying for the province to enact a similar law.