Tag Archives: OHS
June 25, 2015
Employees terminated without cause have a duty to mitigate their damages by taking reasonable steps to secure alternate employment. In Steinbach v. Clean Energy Compression Corp, the court found that the employee’s efforts to find new work, particularly by electing … Continue reading
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Tagged creative sentencing, defamation, due diligence, frustration, human rights, mitigation, OHS, PIPEDA, police records, privacy, record checks, vexatious litigant
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January 14, 2015
Two senior corporate officials have been jailed for health and safety offences in Ontario, writes Adrian Miedema in the Dentons Canadian Occupational Health & Safety Law blog. Two directors of New Mex Canada Inc. were jailed for 25 days after … Continue reading
December 4, 2014
Came across this article on how to stop wasting time in meetings while surfing the web on my phone during a meeting yesterday: http://online.wsj.com/articles/how-to-stop-wasting-colleagues-time-1417562658 The Ontario Court of Appeal, in a decision dealing with the approval of a receiver’s legal … Continue reading
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Tagged billable hour, CASL, choice of law, ex pat, fine, Ghomeshi, non-comp, off-duty misconduct, OHS, policy, secondment, smoking, termination, unions
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November 27, 2014
Earlier this year, class action lawsuits were filed against the Canadian Hockey League alleging that the players were in fact employees and entitled to the protection of minimum employment standards legislation. Stuart Rudner posits in a recent article in the … Continue reading
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Tagged alcohol, CHL, discipline, OHS, Rudner, zero tolerance
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November 20, 2014
Alberta introduced Bill 3, the Personal Information Protection Amendment Act, 2014, on Tuesday and passed first reading. A copy of the Bill is below, but critics are already concerned that the proposed changes don’t go far enough to address the structural … Continue reading
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Tagged Aboriginal, Axess, C-13, Daniels, FCA, Indian, Metis, off-reserve, OHS, PIPA, privacy
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November 4, 2014
Alberta is embarking on a public consultation to solicit comments regarding proposed changes to the Occupational Health and Safety Code. You can go through the survey to see the proposed changes and provide your input. Deadline is January 31, 2015. … Continue reading
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