Labour & Employment in Alberta

CBC Gem is airing a short documentary titled Last Night at the Strip Club . The auto-ethnography examines the impact the COVID-19 had on sex...

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

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 ...

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

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...

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

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

Canada and the US are outliers in historically having no statutory paid sick leave. Alberta’s opposition party has proposed 10 days of leave...