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  Archive for February, 2008

Press Release from the Brady Center Two major safety and security organizations – the American Society of Safety Engineers and ASIS International – joined the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence in filing a “friend of the court” brief urging the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals to affirm a 2007 federal district court ruling striking [...]

Ground-Breaking Bill Would Provide All California Workers with Paid Sick Days

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from California Chronicle Today, Assemblywoman Fiona Ma announced a bill that would allow all California workers to earn paid sick days that they can use to take care of themselves or sick family members. The bill, AB 2716, is co-sponsored by the California Labor Federation and ACORN, and is supported by a statewide coalition of [...]

Hotel-Dieu gets grant to pay Dupont inquest costs

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from Sonja Puzic, The Windsor Star Hotel-Dieu Grace Hospital has received $280,000 from the Erie St. Clair Local Health Integration Network (LHIN) to help cover its costs for the inquest into the 2005 deaths of nurse Lori Dupont and ex-boyfriend Marc Daniel. After a Hotel-Dieu hospital board meeting Wednesday, CEO Neil McEvoy said the amount [...]

Press Release: Workplace Danger Affects Small Businesses

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Press Release from Somerset International Group, Inc. On average, 1.7 million workers are injured each year, and more than eight hundred die as a result of workplace violence according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics. The most extreme form of violence in the workplace, homicide is the fourth-leading cause of fatal occupational injury in the [...]

U.S. Workplace Shootings – Interactive Map

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from CBS News Interactive Map: A look at major incidents at U.S. workplace shootings in the last decade.

Opinion: B.C. needs to protect victims of toxic workplaces

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from Vancouver Sun Re: When bullies turn work into hell, Feb. 26 This article reassures those who have “paid a price” for standing up to bullies that the abuse was not the victim’s fault. However, I find the recommendations to take the matter to the company’s human resources department, launch a grievance through a union [...]

Teachers take bullying claim to commission

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from Harriet Alexander, Sydney Morning Herald Staff at the Conservatorium High School claim the Department of Education has failed to protect them from bullying. In the NSW Industrial Relations Commission yesterday, teachers said the department had failed to carry out a risk assessment of workplace bullying at the prestigious music school, which the Teachers Federation [...]

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