A provision in a harassment program allowing for a preliminary assessment of complaints, rather than an investigation, and for early dismissal, violates the Occupational Health and Safety Act, an employee is arguing before the Ontario Labour Relations Board.

Drivers who have a cell phone in hand are committing an offence, even if not using the phone at the time, Ontario’s top court has decided, overturning an appeal judge.

Courts should discourage employers from suing employees for making safety complaints to the Ministry of Labour, an Ontario Small Claims Court deputy judge has stated.

This case is indicative of the current trend for increased fines, regardless of whether the accident results in death, particularly where the organization blatantly disregards its health and safety obligations under the Act and the principals of the organization are not, in the Court's view, sufficiently repentant.

An employee was entitled to refuse to submit to a reasonable-suspicion drug test where a supervisor smelled marijuana in the employee’s truck.

An Ontario judge has refused to permit a professional engineer employed with the Ontario Ministry of Labour to testify as an expert in a health and safety prosecution.

A union has lost a request to suspend a Ministry of Labour Director’s order allowing a school board to establish a multi-workplace joint health and safety committee.

The fact that an employee had engaged in harassment did not make it foreseeable that he would assault a coworker, a labour arbitrator has held.

Privileged notes taken by a witness – or by the employer from a witness – after a workplace accident may cease to be privileged if used by the witness to prepare to testify in court, a recent court decision suggests.

In the case at hand, a worker had been welding a large steel product, approximately 6.5 feet off the ground, standing on planks atop A-frame steps.

Ontario’s government has introduced a Bill that would result in harsher penalties for distracted driving.

The Ontario Human Rights Commission released a new policy entitled "The Policy on Preventing Discrimination Based on Mental Health Disabilities and Addictions".

We are often asked whether post-accident fixes or improvements by an employer will be held against it if occupational health and safety charges are laid

A supervisor's previous violations of the EPA and failure to pay more than $50,000 in fines were a factor in the court's decision to send her to jail.

The Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario has ruled that the City of Toronto was justified in requiring an employee to obtain a psychiatric assessment.

As of July 1, 2014, Saskatchewan employers who violate certain occupational health and safety laws may be issued a Summary Offence Ticket.

An employee with a long history of substance abuse issues and absenteeism was properly dismissed after he attended at work while impaired.

A discussion on a recent case which deals with the question of whether a broken foot constitute a "critical injury" under the Occupational Health and Safety Act.

Ontario’s Divisional Court has decided that the Workplace Safety and Insurance Act’s age cut-off for loss of earnings benefits for older workers did not violate the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

The Minister of the Environment issued a Notice with respect to hydrofluorocarbons, pursuant to the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999.