By Daniel A. Lublin, Metro Canada What happens when an employee is assaulted by a supervisor? As an Ontario court just ruled, when push comes to shove, the employer may also be responsible. Richard Ayotte was a pushy boss – literally. Ayotte was seen as critical, intimidating and aggressive, thinking it would achieve results. In …
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Jun 29 2010
New bill deals with workplace violence, harassment
By Mark Wales, Oxford Review Ontario farming consists of thousands of small-and medium-sized enterprises that employ many more thousands of people on our farms. As employers in Ontario, regardless of size, farmers need to know they are now required to have policies on workplace violence and harassment. Those with five or more employees must have …
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Jun 23 2010
Protests, Sit-ins and Occupations, Oh My!
Press Release from NewsWire.ca Many GTA employers don’t realize that they are legally responsible for protecting their employees from G-20 protestors and activists. With a growing number of incidents in the downtown core, including the occupation of businesses, street protests and isolated cases of vandalism, employers can face large fines and – in extreme cases …
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Jun 22 2010
Workplace violence can put your company at risk
By Teresa Long, KPBJ.com Traditionally, the workplace has been thought of as a safe environment, the place where we often spend more time with our co-workers than our own families. But that perception changed dramatically on a hot August day in 1986, when a postal worker in Edmund, Oklahoma walked into the post office with …
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