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What will Ontario’s Bill 168 mean for businesses? (Part 1)
Image taken from: http://safety.1800inet.com All workplaces house risks to employees’ health and safety in varying degrees: factories have machinery that can cause serious injuries; warehouses store...
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What will Ontario’s Bill 168 mean for businesses? (Part 2)
Image taken from: http://www.pwiusa.com Unfortunately, Bill 168 as it stands is vague with regard to what employers must actually do in cases where domestic violence enters the workplace. Legal...
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Workplace violence and harassment prevention measures now law
Following my December 14 blog post, the Ontario government gave royal assent to Bill 168, Occupational Health and Safety Amendment Act (Violence and Harassment in the Workplace) 2009, on December 15,...
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Addressing domestic violence in the workplace – some insights
The Ontario Occupational Health and Safety Act violence and harassment prevention provisions (Bill 168) require an employer to take all reasonable precautions in the circumstances for the protection of...
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On January 27, 2010, I attended the HRPA annual conference. I was most interested on the session titled, Violence in the Workplace: An Update on Bill 168 from the Ministry of Labour. I needed some...
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Assessing risk in the workplace
Occupational health and safety legislation across Canada requires employers to identify any existing or foreseeable hazards that might arise in the workplace, and to conduct an assessment of these...
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Domestic violence and the workplace – balancing privacy and safety
Believe it or not, it’s been close to a year since Ontario enacted Bill 168, the Occupational Health and Safety Amendment Act (Violence and Harassment in the Workplace) 2009, with all of its many new...
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Navigating the issue of domestic violence in the workplace
Ontario’s recently enacted workplace violence amendment (Section 32.0 of the Occupational Health and Safety Act (OHSA), formerly known as Bill 168) places a legal onus on provincially regulated...
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Assessing the risk of violence at work
Companies have had almost 3 years to implement violence and harassment prevention in the workplace provisions under the Ontario Occupational Health and Safety Act , OHSA (also known as Bill 168). Like...
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Conduct unbecoming becoming employer’s problem?
Image: www.nytimes.comThe National Football League (NFL) has been widely criticized these past recent weeks regarding how it dealt with (or did not deal with) Baltimore Ravens’ ex-player, Ray Rice,...
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IRCC announces details of global skills strategy
On June 12, 2017, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) announced details of its Global Skills Strategy. First announced in November 2016, the Global Skills Strategy is intended to help...
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Three popular articles this week on HRinfodesk
Articles may require log in credentials to HRinfodesk. Employee’s decision to retrain affected his right to damages after termination The Ontario Superior Court of Justice had to recently address...
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7 ways to decrease negativity in a working environment
Workplace negativity is an increasing problem in today’s society. Some say that this negativity is a result of the loss of control, confidence, or community of a workplace. The best way to combat...
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Le cannabis en milieu de travail
Le 13 avril dernier, le projet de loi C-45 – soit la Loi concernant le cannabis et modifiant la Loi réglementant certaines drogues et autres substances, le Code criminel et d’autres lois ou la Loi sur...
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Cannabis in the workplace
On April 13, Bill C-45 – An Act respecting cannabis and to amend the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act, the Criminal Code and other Acts, also known as the Cannabis Act – was introduced and read in...
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Employers: Be careful of what you say about former employees to their new...
Be careful of what you say about former employees to their new employers, warns Toronto employment lawyer, Jeff Dutton. If a former employer suggests to another employer to terminate a certain...
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E.T. v. Dress Code Express Inc., the “Code” as applied to minors
The Ontario Human Rights Code is extensive in its efforts to protect persons within Ontario, and may apply to minors in the workforce. Background In the recent case, E.T. v. Dress Code Express Inc.,...
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Three popular articles this week on HRinfodesk
Articles may require log in credentials to HRinfodesk. New type of damage awarded against employer after workplace harassment proven In the following case, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice had to...
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Government of Canada amends the Citizenship Act
On June 19, 2017, Bill C-6, which proposed numerous amendments to the Canadian Citizenship Act, (R.S.C., 1985, c. C-29), received Royal Assent. Bill C-6 attempts to reverse many of the changes...
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Summarizing WSIB’s proposed Rate Framework, part 2
This week, Clear Path Employer Services provides us with Part 2 of their 3-part series, Summarizing WSIB’s proposed Rate Framework. Part two – Class level premium rate settings This blog is part two of...
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