By The Canadian Press TORONTO — Ontario Premier Doug Ford says the province will mark Sept. 19 as a Day of Mourning for Queen Elizabeth II in lieu of a provincial holiday. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has announced that Monday, which is the day of the Queen's state funeral in London, will be a [...]
By Peter Zimonjic via CBC News The date of Queen Elizabeth's funeral will be marked in Canada with a national holiday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Tuesday. "We have ... chosen to move forward with a federal holiday on Monday [Sept. 19]," Trudeau said in New Brunswick, where he is attending a Liberal caucus [...]
By Jim Wilson via the Canadian Occupational Safety Vancouver-based employer CRM of Canada Processing ULC has been fined $125,000 in an Ontario court after one of its workers was killed in a workplace incident. Following a guilty plea in Provincial Offences Court in Brantford, the employer must also pay a 25 per cent victim [...]
BY Katrina Eñano Ontario’s Ministry of Labour, Training and Skills Development has recently released new guidance that will aid employers in creating a written policy on electronic monitoring of their employees. On February 28, the Ontario government introduced the Working for Workers Act, 2022 (Bill 88), which includes changes to the Employment Standards Act, [...]
By: Farrah Merali More than four years after the launch of a class action lawsuit against a company that ran student travel excursions, an Ontario court has approved a settlement between the organization and former trip leaders who argued they were not paid as employees. The suit alleged trip leaders with travel firm S-Trip [...]
By: Erika Ibrahim OTTAWA — Federal public service unions say the government’s plan to get employees back to the office is confusing, disjointed and jeopardizing health and safety. The Treasury Board of Canada released its guidelines on hybrid work arrangements in May, tasking government departments with deciding “whether the location of work can be [...]
By: Maan Alhmidi TORONTO - Ontario’s government faced a call Tuesday to establish a permanent 10-day paid sick leave program in light of rising cases of monkeypox. Public Health Ontario reported 326 confirmed cases of monkeypox in the province as of Monday, up from 288 on Thursday. Those figures came as the Opposition New [...]
By: Tom Blackwell Via The National Post Article content A Catholic nurse in Ontario had a right to a religious exemption from COVID-19 vaccination because of the “quite remote” link between the shots and aborted fetuses, an arbitrator has ruled in one of the first legal pronouncements on the issue. Pope Francis and other Catholic leaders [...]
By: Christopher Nardi Via National Post Publishing date: Jul 12, 2022 • 1 week ago • 4 minute read • Article content OTTAWA — A Canadian Human Rights Tribunal ruling excoriates Bell Canada and demands the company pay over $120,000 to a former employee who was fired because of unproven performance issues while he was recovering from cancer. In May [...]
By: Christopher Nardi Via The National Post Jeff Reid was fired when the company found out he failed to report the symptoms and called the situation a 'joke' on social media, an arbitrator said Going to work with undeclared COVID-like symptoms can derail your career, a now former Canadian Pacific train conductor learned the [...]