Labour & Employment in Alberta

Alberta has released its 2023 annual report for the part of the government that was at one time called Labour and that relate to Albertans ...

A few weeks back, the Tyee ran a story on the effect of increasing levels of wildfire smoke on tree planter OHS . This story is interesting ...

Yesterday, CBC reported that three companies had been charged in a November 2021 workplace death. The worker was testing a pipe when a valv...

Unionized workers can make gains and stave off concessions by attaching costs to employer behaviour in the hope that the employer will decid...

Almost 100% of staff at Athabasca University (AU) work from home, at least part of the time. This is up from about 50% prior to COVID. The s...

Back in September, I blogged about how Alberta’s OHS inspectors seemed unwilling to address uncontrolled aerosol hazards in a workplace. My...

Recently, I blogged about how the UCP’s changes to joint health and safety committees has basically rendered them ineffective. I used the e...

 As Labour Day rolls around, I’ve been giving some thought to the two-and-half years I spent as a worker rep on Athabasca University’s joint...

Sean Tucker and Anya Keefe from the University of Regina have released their annual report on workplace fatalities and injuries. This year’s...

One strategy that manufacturers and employers use to delay the regulation of and liability for harmful substances is to make alternative-cau...

The Institute for Work and Health has released results of a new study that matches emergency room visit records with workers' compensat...

In late December, my colleagues Jason Foster, Susan Cake and Jared Matsunaga-Turnbull and I wrote about Alberta’s efforts to gut Alberta’s j...

Alberta finally released its annual report on injuries and fatalities for 2019 . Some of the key findings are that, from 2017 to 2019: Lost-...