Alberta’s Employment Standards Code, has been amended to provide new minimum standards to allow employees to take compassionate care leave.

The Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario has ruled that an employer is not liable for discriminatory and harassing texts sent by a rogue employee.

An Ontario court has dismissed two charges under the Occupational Health and Safety Act against a tourist resort after the Ministry of Labour failed to prove its case.

Importantly, the employer did not file a Response to the employee's OLRB Application, meaning that the OLRB's decision was of a "default nature".

A new Ontario Bill will give unpaid trainees the protection of the Occupational Health and Safety Act. The OHSA currently gives that protection to paid workers only.

The number of Ontario Occupational Health and Safety Act convictions was at a six-year low in the government’s fiscal 2013/14 year.

Electronic filing of SIPPs with the Ontario regulator will be mandatory in 2016

In a March 2013 decision that is likely to be challenged in the courts, the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal has ordered the reinstatement of an employee a decade after she went on disability leave, together with loss of wages from June 2003 until the date of reinstatement.

Disciplinary letters issued to three members of a safety "Policy Committee" were not retaliatory under the Canada Labour Code.

A driver’s failure to wear a seat belt, which is an offence under the Ontario Highway Traffic Act, is not an "absolute liability" offence.

A hydro worker's sexual harassment of a co-worker, including an offensive sexual joke, justified his dismissal, the Ontario Labour Relations Board has held.

Unpaid internships were discussed in an April 8th posting in this blog and it is clear that most Ontario interns have to be paid.

Rarely are senior corporate officials jailed for health and safety offences in Canada.

The superintendents were on the jobsite at the time of the accident and supervising the task of insulating the overhead water pipe.

In 2013, Health Canada and OSHA signed a Memorandum of Understanding to promote ongoing collaboration on implementing the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling (GHS) in both countries.

Just because members of the public call for the firing of an employee for yelling sexual taunts at a TV reporter at a sports match, does not mean that the firing is legally justified, a recent case illustrates.

The worker testified that on the day in question, as he entered a construction site office he was asked by the health and safety officer why he had stopped trades people from throwing garbage from the third floor.

An amendment to the Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act has been approved by the Senate and is currently before the House of Commons.

This is the first in-depth review of mining issuers’ websites, but the review process will continue and likely expand to other issuers.

In April of this year, the Government of Canada issued a Consultation Paper regarding mandatory reporting standards for extractive industry companies, requiring disclosure of payments to foreign and domestic governments (the proposed reporting standards).