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A company put on a two-hour job tryout for a prospective worker, watched him get hurt on the job — and never once asked if he needed help recovering. That… …
An Ontario tribunal has ordered the restoration of full wage-loss benefits to an airline worker with post-traumatic stress disorder for a six-year period during which her insurer assumed she could… …
A former ambulance dispatcher trainee who was fired for poor performance has won loss-of-earnings benefits after a tribunal found his PTSD diagnosis left him unable to seek any work —… …
A veteran electrician with a pre-existing fused right wrist has won partial compensation for a right shoulder injury sustained during work duties that included driving heavy bucket trucks, the Workplace… …
Ontario’s Workplace Safety and Insurance Appeals Tribunal has denied a worker’s request to reopen a decision that rejected his claim for benefits following a 2017 workplace accident, finding no fundamental… …
A Quebec warehouse worker who resigned after a dangerous forklift incident has been denied Employment Insurance benefits — not because his safety concerns were wrong, but because he quit too… …
A New Brunswick appeals tribunal has denied a workers’ compensation claim for occupational hearing loss after finding the worker filed his application nearly 12 years past the statutory deadline, with… …
A teacher who was moved to a different classroom after raising air quality concerns has lost her reprisal complaint — with a Nova Scotia court ruling she forfeited her protections… …
A northern Ontario hospital did not violate its collective agreement or the Occupational Health and Safety Act in its response to a violent workplace harassment incident, an arbitrator has ruled… …
An Ontario tribunal has ruled that the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board wrongly reduced an injured aircraft painter’s loss-of-earnings benefits during two periods when he was awaiting and recovering from… …
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