Sentences with phrase «harassment provisions»

The workplace harassment provisions in OHSA are designed to assist employers to recognize and deal with workplace harassment before it spirals into possible workplace violence.

The development of these guidelines was prompted by the findings and recommendations of the 1996 Department of Justice Canada review of the criminal harassment provisions in the Criminal Code.

Those amendments made significant changes to the workplace harassment provisions of the Ontario Occupational Health and Safety Act.

But the sexual harassment provision also came under heavy criticism for being negotiated by four men: Cuomo, Klein, and the leaders of the state Senate and Assembly.

While fully implementing the Code of Practice would ensure that an employer is compliant with the entire range of workplace harassment provisions under the OHSA, following the requirements of the Code of Practice is by no means the only way employers can meet their obligations.

However, a comment sparked further discussion on how workplace political expression could also contravene harassment provisions under occupational health and safety legislation... [more]

The Action Plan suggests that an enforcement team of inspectors, trained to address complaints of workplace harassment, including sexual harassment, will enforce the new harassment provisions.

Important distinctions between OHSA workplace violence and workplace harassment provisions including determining the scope and content of human rights and health and safety policies and determining the processes for investigating incidents or complaints of violence and workplace harassment in light of the Bill 132 changes

The province has just passed Bill 132 to expand those OHS harassment provisions.

These intentions may include the creation of a Code of Practice pursuant to the OHSA, the establishment of workplace inspection teams to enforce amended OHSA sexual harassment provisions, and various other possibilities.

While the sexual - harassment provision in the bill was only a modest step in the right direction, it was packaged with important other measures that would combat human trafficking, expand protections for victims of domestic violence and prevent housing discrimination.

However, a comment sparked further discussion on how workplace political expression could also contravene harassment provisions under occupational health and safety legislation.

To illustrate, these excerpts are from a recent article written by a lawyer for an occupational health and safety magazine more than two years after the violence and harassment provisions under the Ontario Occupational Health and Safety Act were enacted and came into force:

Giles Rowe and Majid Katme point out how, despite prior guarantees, harassment provisions have been attached which can be used against religious leaders who preach that homosexual sex is wrong.

Sources for several days have said the sexual harassment provisions — including ending secret settlements or forcing victims to sign nondisclosure agreements — were all but certain to be contained in a final budget deal.

The sexual harassment provisions was passed Friday in one of 10 budget bills under consideration in reaction to the onslaught of national cases this year.

Those changes, principally, are centred on the workplace harassment provisions that were enacted in June 2010.

Bullying and harassment provisions are now explicitly set out.

Bill 132 would also create a special team of investigators who are specially trained to address workplace harassment complaints and enforce OHSA's harassment provisions.

Although this legal obligation has always existed as part of an employer's common law duties in 2010 the obligation was codified in Ontario by way of amendments to the Occupational Health and Safety Act.34 The workplace violence and harassment provisions can now be found in Part III.01 of the Act.

We may also see some change to the language of the harassment provisions in the race, religion or belief, sexual orientation and age legislation to bring the wording into line with the amendment to the harassment provision in the Sex Discrimination Act 1975 (SDA 1975) made earlier this year.

This session will introduce participants to these new amendments to OHSA workplace harassment provisions, and discuss their implications, as well as practical strategies for dealing with harassment related issues and complaints under OHS legislation.

Current OHSA workplace violence and workplace harassment provisions and interplay with other Ontario legislation

An Ontario judge has rebuffed a small - town mayor's attempt to use the Occupational Health and Safety Act «s (OHSA) violence and harassment provisions to obtain a court order stopping a town resident from harassing her.

Also, the judge stated that it was doubtful that the harassment policy or the OHSA's harassment provisions were ever intended to apply to persons who are not part of the «workplace».

If the approach and reasoning of the Board develops the law as we suggest they could, the case will represent a significant development in the evolution of the OHSA's workplace harassment provisions.

Taking the workplace violence and harassment provisions of the OHSA as an example, when Bill 168, the Occupational Health and Safety Amendment Act (Violence and Harassment in the Workplace) 2009 received royal assent on December 15, 2009, the Bill became a law.