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The legal doctrine of "absolute privilege" prevented an employee from complaining that his former employer's lawsuit against him was in retaliation (reprisal) for the employee filing a previous safety-retaliation...

On May 27, 2019, the recently-elected United Conservative Party (UCP) Government introduced Bill 2 (An Act to Make Alberta Open for Business) to the Provincial Legislature.

The Ontario Court of Appeal has revived a proposed class action brought by the appellant, Pietro Castrillo, on behalf of a class of injured workers...

As we have previously reported, Bill 132's amendments to the workplace harassment provisions of the Ontario Occupational Health and Safety Act came into force on September 8, 2016.

In March 2016, the Government of Alberta launched a formal review of the workers' compensation system and established an independent panel to examine the system and make recommendations.

A helpful change to Ontario pension law has come into effect, coincident with the arrival of patio season.

A city has won a suspension of a Ministry of Labour inspector's decision that the city was a "constructor" under the Ontario Occupational Health and Safety Act on a watermain-improvement project.

A laid-off worker's safety-retaliation complaint under the Occupational Health and Safety Act has been dismissed because it was really a complaint about management's assessment of his performance...

A condominium owner who called building management staff offensive and degrading names has been ordered by a judge to cease and desist from harassing them.

An Ontario judge has rebuffed a small-town mayor's attempt to use the Occupational Health and Safety Act‘s violence and harassment provisions to obtain a court order stopping a town resident from harassing her.

In a previous post, we reported that an arbitrator had accepted a union's request to impose 24-hour shifts for the City of St. Catharines' firefighters, in spite of the city's safety concerns.

A labour arbitrator has held that the practice of unionized long-term care home employees voluntarily working two 8-hour shifts in succession did not violate the Ontario Employment Standards Act...

The Ontario Court of Appeal's decision in the case of Paquette v. TeraGo Networks Inc. should have all employers running to double-check and possibly amend their bonus plans.

An electrical contractor has been hit with a huge fine after its faulty electrical work led to a resident's death.

A trial judge was wrong to find a City guilty of Occupational Health and Safety Act charges solely because an accident had occurred in which a worker died.

A worker who filed a safety-reprisal complaint 2.5 years after the events complained about has had his complaint dismissed for delay.

The Ontario Workplace Safety and Insurance Appeals Tribunal has ruled that an employee who was injured at lunchtime in a car accident was barred from suing the other driver in court.

The Ministry of Labour and the employer were not required to hand over certain documents requested by the union in a safety dispute, the Ontario Labour Relations Board has decided.