Ministry of Labour‘s Prevention Office Communiqué to Stakeholders: NEW Mandatory Occupational Health and Safety Awareness Training On November 15 the new Occupational Health and Safety Awareness and Training Regulation (O.Reg.297/13) was announced. This regulation will come into force on July 1, 2014. The regulation lays out mandatory training for workers and supervisors, and Requires that […]

In 25 years working in the Guelph office of insurance company the Co-operators Group, Jane O’Leary has worked her way up. She started out in the marketing area, moved to the data centre and now she is part of a two-person team that supports senior management in planning projects and allocating resources. The opportunity to […]

Christopher McHardy Random alcohol and drug testing causes irreparable harm to privacy interests, but not allowing it creates a risk of even greater irreparable harm to safety. That was the decision reached by an Arbitrator who was asked by a union to make an interim order to prevent the employer from implementing its new testing […]

TORONTO Although a large majority (80 per cent) of Canadians approaching retirement believe they will get to pick the day they step away from their careers, in reality 41 per cent of retirees report that they did not leave on a date of their choice, according to the RBC 2013 Retirement Myths & Realities Poll. […]

Construction Issues Raised in Ontario 2013 Fall Economic Update On Thursday, the Ontario government released its Fall Economic Statement, an opportunity for the government to update its fiscal and economic plan and announce new measures. Finance Minister Charles Sousa announced the current outlook for Ontario’s 2013-14 deficit of $11.7 billion, unchanged from the May 2013 […]