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National Day of Mourning virtual commemoration

On April 28, 2021, around 80 countries worldwide will continue to mark the official Day of Mourning to commemorate those workers who have suffered work-related injuries, illnesses and deaths virtually amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

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Hockey players and workplace health and safety

Hockey players get paid to be hit. The reverse is also true; many hockey players are paid to hit. For hockey players, violence is part of the job. This job has clearly been taken up a notch this year for the playoffs. Even Sid “the Kid” was renamed “Vicious Sid” in a recent headline.

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Employers must now treat verbal threats as serious offences under the OHSA’s definition of workplace violence

A recent labour arbitrator’s decision—to uphold the City of Kingston’s right to terminate a 28-year employee for issuing a verbal threat against a co-worker—was based in large part on the arbitrator’s view that "the classification of threatening language as workplace violence" under the Occupational Health and Safety Act represents a "clear and significant change" to the law in Ontario.

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