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 ...

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...

Many labour-side practitioners assert that the financial penalties levied against employers that violate occupational health and safety rule...

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...

At the end of June, the government of Alberta dropped the annual reports for all ministries for the year ending March 31, 2022. The Labour r...

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

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

Sean Tucker and Anya Keefe from the University of Regina have released their annual roll up of Canadian workplace injuries and fatalities u...

Some new research updates have been published by the Institute for Work and Health. A study in BC looked at injury claiming behaviour. It fo...

John Oliver recently did an interesting piece on working conditions in meat-packing plants. These working conditions are broadly similar to ...

One of the things labour practitioners talk a lot about is the power of delay, and how employers weaponize it against workers. When an emplo...