By Louise Trotter, CRSP and Carla Hurley, CPHR When Nova Scotia’s harassment legislation took effect on Sept. 1, many Joint Occupational Health …
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FeaturedLegislation & ComplianceWorkplace Safety & OHS
Nova Scotia’s harassment legislation provides opportunity for HR, OHS to partner
By Louise Trotter, CRSP and Carla Hurley, CPHR With Nova Scotia’s new harassment prevention legislation taking effect Sept. 1, 2025, many organizations …
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FeaturedLabour Relations
Dalhousie faculty reject contract offer from university’s board of governors
The union representing locked out professors at Atlantic Canada’s largest university says its members have voted to reject the school’s latest contract …
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About 1,000 professors, librarians and other teaching staff have been locked out by Atlantic Canada’s largest university less than two weeks before …
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FeaturedLegislation & ComplianceWorkplace Safety & OHS
Nova Scotia requires workplace harassment policies starting Sept. 1
All Nova Scotia employers must implement written harassment prevention policies by September 1 under new provincial regulations, affecting thousands of workplaces across …
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FeaturedTraining & DevelopmentWorkplace Safety & OHS
Nova Scotia ends training contract with firefighters school after damning safety audit
by Todd Humberby Todd HumberNova Scotia has cut ties with the Nova Scotia Firefighters School following a value-for-money audit that found serious safety problems and governance …
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FeaturedLegislation & ComplianceWorkplace Safety & OHS
Nova Scotia WCB’s duty to co-operate rules take effect July 15 in bid to improve return-to-work
Nova Scotia employers and injured workers will face new legal obligations starting July 15, when the province’s Duty to Cooperat legislation comes …
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FeaturedWorkplace Safety & OHS
Irving Shipbuilding faces charges of safety violations in Halifax worker’s 2024 death
Irving Shipbuilding is scheduled to enter a plea Oct. 1 on charges of violating workplace safety rules after an employee died last …
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FeaturedRecruitment
Nova Scotia opens healthcare worker housing complex as part of strategy to fill critical positions
by Todd Humberby Todd HumberNova Scotia has opened a fully occupied eight-unit housing complex for healthcare workers in Guysborough County, part of a provincial strategy to …
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Non-union civil servants dismissed without cause in Nova Scotia will now be eligible for up to 80 weeks of severance under new …