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- Employer alert: Ontario issues “stay-at-home” order and new restrictions on businesses
On January 12, 2021, the Government of Ontario declared a new state of emergency, announced a “stay-at-home” order, and imposed new public health measures and restrictions on businesses. Ontario Regulations 10/21 and 11/21 were filed the next day, specifying the new obligations on employers and the … Read more »
- Ontario employers now legally required to screen employees coming to work – using the government’s “Screening Tool”
Ontario’s “Stage 3” Regulation now requires employers to conduct employee screening for COVID-19 whenever employees come to work, using questions set out in a new “Screening Tool” issued by the Ontario Ministry of Health. The Regulation was made on Friday, September 25, 2020, and is already in effec … Read more »
- Working at Heights Training Renewal Extended By One Year for Certain Workers As a Result of COVID-19
The Ontario Ministry of Labour, Training and Skills Development (the “MOL”) has announced that workers in the construction sector whose working at heights training was set to expire between February 28 and August 31, 2020 have an additional year to renew their working at heights training. This exte … Read more »
- Constructively Dismissed Due to Workplace Mental Distress? You May Need to Go to the WSIB, not Courts
The Ontario Workplace Safety and Insurance Appeals Tribunal has ordered that an employee’s constructive dismissal lawsuit was barred because it was based on workplace mental distress, which was a matter for the WSIB and not the courts. The employee worked in housekeeping in a hotel. She resigned fr … Read more »
- Alberta’s joint work site health and safety committee requirements are changing
The Alberta government recently issued some changes to the joint work site health and safety committee (JWSHSC) requirements. The Alberta Occupational Health and Safety Act requires that employers with more than 20 workers establish a JWSHSC . Since June 2018, the JWSHSC requirement was site-based. … Read more »