Labour & Employment in Alberta

One of many tasks of OHS practitioners is to plan organizational responses to disasters. The most common kind of workplace disaster we devel...

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...

Alberta released some injury-related reports in April. Here are the highlights from the 2021 Workplace Injury, Illness and Fatality Statisti...

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

Employers often struggle to balance their interest in improving workplace safety with workers’ right to privacy. For example, the history of...

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...

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...

 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...