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New mental health safety standard may impact employers’ duties related to employee mental health

  • Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
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  • Canada
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  • June 4 2013

Recent studies have shown that one in five Canadians will experience a mental illness in their lifetime, and that mental health is the number one

Ambulance service failed in duty to accommodate - manager also personally liable

  • McCarthy Tétrault LLP
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  • Canada
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  • May 10 2013

The BC Ambulance Service failed in its duty to accommodate a paramedic who could no longer palpate a pulse because of his mulitple sclerosis. The

Imputation by the CSST of medical visit costs of employees whose injuries are consolidated without permanent impairment or functional limitation keep an eye on your monthly statements!

  • Norton Rose Canada LLP
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  • Canada
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  • April 25 2013

In a much-anticipated decision, on February 14, 2013, the Superior Court ruled on the imputation of medical visit costs by the Commission de la

Wright v. College and Association of Registered Nurses of Alberta (Appeals Committee) 2012 ABCA 267

  • Field Law LLP
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  • Canada
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  • April 1 2013

In the November 6, 2012 edition of Perspectives for the Professions we reported on the decision of the Court of Appeal referenced above. In this case

A classic case of “who done it?”

  • Stewart McKelvey
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  • Canada
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  • March 1 2013

A recent Nova Scotia decision - Pictou County Health Authority v. Canadian Union of Public Employees, Local 2525, represents the rare time in which a

Safety inspection blitzes for the health care sector

  • Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP
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  • Canada
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  • January 31 2013

The Ministry of Labour (MOL) has announced that inspectors will be conducting safety inspection blitzes on workplace violence in FebruaryMarch of

BLG Monthly Update

  • Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
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  • Argentina, Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, USA
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  • December 19 2012

The BLG Monthly Update is a digest of recent developments in the law which Neil Guthrie, our National Director of Research, thinks you will find

This week at the SCC

  • McCarthy Tétrault LLP
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  • Canada
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  • December 2 2012

The Supreme Court of Canada released one decision this week of interest to Canadian businesses and professions

Disciplining an employee who makes a false claim to the CSST: What is appropriate?

  • Norton Rose Canada LLP
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  • Canada
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  • October 18 2012

On July 23, 2012, in Syndicat des paramedics et du préhospitalier de la Montérégie CSN c Coopérative des techniciens ambulanciers de la Montérégie (CETAM), the Quebec Court of Appeal upheld the firing of an employee who had made a false claim to the Commission de la santé et de la sécurité du travail (CSST), ruling that filing a false claim with the CSST which caused financial and operational prejudice to the employer and resulted in a breach of the relationship of trust was a ground for dismissal

Arbitrator finds hospital did not take too long to accommodate

  • Heenan Blaikie LLP
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  • Canada
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  • September 23 2012

Even though the legal principles governing the duty to accommodate disability are well established, applying them in practice continues to be a challenge for employers