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… …
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Ontario board denies Ford worker’s bid to increase $2,500 safety reprisal award
by Todd Humberby Todd HumberThe Ontario Labour Relations Board has rejected a Ford Motor Company of Canada worker’s request to reconsider a $2,500 damage award for reprisal, ruling he failed to present wage loss… …
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Arbitrator rules PTSD-linked suicide qualifies as workplace accidental death under firefighter agreement
by Todd Humberby Todd HumberAn Ontario arbitrator has ruled a firefighter’s death by suicide must be covered under an accidental death benefit because it resulted from work-related post-traumatic stress disorder, establishing that occupational mental… …
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Mental Health & WellbeingOHS LawWorkplace Safety
Alberta employer denied reconsideration of cost relief bid in PTSD case following workplace fatality
The Alberta Workers’ Compensation Appeals Commission has rejected an employer’s request to reconsider an earlier decision that denied cost relief in a claim involving a worker diagnosed with post-traumatic stress… …



