The Plan appears to include proposals to amend the Ontario Occupational Health and Safety Act («OHSA») to include a specific definition of «sexual harassment» and impose specific
investigation obligations on employers.
Not exact matches
We regularly advise
employers on their
obligations under the Health & Safety at Work Act 2015 (and its predecessor), H&S
investigations and prosecutions, both directly and through insurers.
In particular, the Act places no
obligation on employers to provide a harassment free workplace or to provide any specific type of
investigation or outcome of a harassment complaint.
Importantly, under these earlier cases, the Board had held that an
employer's OHSA workplace harassment
obligations required a workplace harassment policy, a program with reporting and
investigation mechanisms, and worker training
on both.