Sentences with phrase «workplace violence law»

Ontario's new workplace violence law, commonly known as Bill 168, amends the Occupational Health and Safety Act and reflects the continued blurring of the line between the workplace and life outside it.

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Whereas, New York State is a leading voice for women's equality and has raised that voice in action through such significant achievements as passage of the historic «Women's Equality Agenda» in 2015 - eight laws that advance women's equality in New York State by helping to achieve pay equity, strengthen human trafficking laws and protections for domestic violence victims, and ending pregnancy discrimination in all workplaces; other measures further safeguard and promote women's interests and help improve their status in settings where they live and work; and

Cuomo on Sunday said he would write his own reproductive health measure, which is part of an overall package of women's equality bills that include pay equity and provisions to strengthen violence against women laws, along with new propsoals to prevent workplace discrimination.

There are other aspects to the governor's Women's Equality Act, including stopping pregnancy discrimination; eliminating sexual harassment in all workplaces; further protecting domestic violence victims; and strengthening human trafficking laws.

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Presenter, Gender Violence in the Workplace: «A Faceless Movement: Searching for a System that Promotes Empowerment Among All Survivors of Gender Violence,» Seattle University School of Law

He regularly advises management on wage - and - hour issues, leave laws, workplace violence prevention, the disability accommodation process, and the discipline and termination processes.

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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.

The law also required changes with respect to violence in the workplace, but those changes will not be considered in this post.

August 10, 2002, Washington, D.C., «Violence in the Workplace: How to Predict and Prevent It While Protecting Employee Rights,» (ABA Annual Meeting; Labor and Employment Law Section)

Third, occupational health and safety laws in particular provinces have recently been revised to address workplace violence and harassment, which includes not only physical injury but also bullying and intimidation.

The OHS and other laws of some provinces expressly require employers to undertake a risk assessment in relation to workplace violence; some also require workplace harassment risk assessments.

Some provincial OHS laws expressly deal with workplace sexual harassment and violence, prohibiting them and mandating provincially regulated employers to take specific steps to prevent and / or respond.

The above cases highlight the importance of complying with the law and having the appropriate written policies in place, to actively and continually assess the risks of violence that develop in the workplace on a daily basis and putting plans in place to avoid the violence materializing.

The shocking death of an Arizona law firm partner last month at the hands of a mediation opponent has shaken up legal communities across North American and has brought the issue of workplace violence in the legal profession to the fore.

In the most infamous workplace violence incident related to the legal profession, in 1993, a former client shot and killed eight people at the San Francisco law offices of Pettit and Martin.

Hence on December 15, 2009, Bill 168 became law and is known as An Act to amend the Occupational Health and Safety Act with respect to violence and harassment in the workplace and other matters, Chapter 23 of the Statutes of Ontario, 2009.

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Flora Poon discusses recent case law regarding violence and harassment in the workplace at Devry Smith Frank LLP's HR / Employment seminar on October 10, 2014.

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