By Norm Keith, Canadian Occupational Safety magazine The first important decision arising from the Bill 168 amendments to the Occupational Health and Safety Act (OHSA) held that verbal threats of workplace violence constitute just cause to terminate a worker’s employment. Donna Hudson, a former employee of the City of Kingston, grieved the termination of her …
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Jan 20 2012
Jan 30th Seminar – Workplace Violence: Assessing Risk and Managing Outcomes
from K Calder & Associates Why take this course? Assessing individual and organizational workplace violence risk is now a requirement in most Canadian jurisdictions. Current legislation places a significant onus on employers to alert workers to circumstances and individuals who may pose a risk of physical violence, bullying, harassment in the workplace. In addition, employers …
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Jan 06 2012
Workplace Violence: Assessing Risk and Managing Outcomes
from K Calder & Associates Why take this course? Assessing individual and organizational workplace violence risk is now a requirement in most Canadian jurisdictions. Current legislation places a significant onus on employers to alert workers to circumstances and individuals who may pose a risk of physical violence, bullying, harassment in the workplace. In addition, employers …
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Dec 13 2011
Verbal threats as workplace violence
By Justin Tetreault, CanadianLawyerMag.com An arbitrator has rejected the grievance of an employee who challenged her dismissal for uttering a death threat towards a co-worker in one of the first awards to consider the impact of Bill 168 on how parties must deal with workplace violence, and specifically verbal threats. On June 15, 2010, amendments …
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