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By Marie-Yosie Saint-Cyr, LL.B. Managing Editor | 2 Minutes Read April 28, 2021

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.

Article by Marie-Yosie Saint-Cyr, LL.B. Managing Editor / Business, Employee Relations, Health and Safety / April 28 Day of Mourning, COVID-19, employment law, NAOSH, safe workplace

By Marcia Scheffler | 3 Minutes Read April 24, 2012

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.

Article by Marcia Scheffler / Health and Safety / employee discipline, employment law, enforcement, fines, hazard controls, hockey violence, internal responsibility system, minimize the risk of violence, personal protective equipment, safe workplace, unsafe behaviour, violence prevention, workplace violence, young workers

By David Hyde | 5 Minutes Read September 14, 2011

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.

Article by David Hyde / Employee Relations, Health and Safety, Human Rights / Bill 168, employment law, inappropriate language, occupational health and safety act, OHSA, ontario, Ontario Labour Relations Act, proportionality, safe workplace, security, termination for cause, threat, threat of violence, uttering threats, verbal threats, violence, workplace harassment, workplace investigation, workplace violence

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