Federal Government Interpretive Guidelines On Workplace Harassment And Violence Regulations

As many ushered in a new year, federally regulated employers welcomed the coming into force of changes to the Canada Labour Code (the Code) pursuant to Bill C-65, An Act to amend the Canada Labour Code (harassment and violence),  the Parliamentary Employment and Staff Relations Act  and the Budget Implementation Act, 2017, No. 1 and corresponding Workplace Harassment and Violence Regulations (the Regulations). The requirements of the Regulations are summarized in our previous posts on the topic (you can find Part 1 here – and Part 2 here).

The changes include new requirements with regard to training, investigating, reporting and preventing workplace harassment and violence in federally regulated workplaces. To assist employers in implementing the new changes, the federal government released interpretive guidelines (the Guidelines) which answer potential questions regarding the new workplace violence and harassment provisions of the Code and Regulations and