Showing posts with label Workplace Violence. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Workplace Violence. Show all posts

Thursday 30 May 2019

Workplace Assault Does Not Automatically Trigger Protections of Section 50 of OHSA: OLRB

Does the fact that an assault occurs in the workplace automatically trigger the protections of subsection 50(1) of the Occupational Health and Safety Act?

In a case involving a fight at a male strip club, Mazen Jamal Chams Eddin v 938088 Ontario Limited, 2019 CanLII 37953 (ON LRB), Ontario Labour Relations Board Alternate Chair Matthew R. Wilson held that it did not.