Public Service Alliance of Canada BC

The publication “Workplace Health and Disability: A Guide for Employees and Those Supporting Them” is now available from the Treasury Board website.

The primary purpose of this document is to guide you through the main aspects of health and disability support in the core public administration workplace. The guide is designed to give you an overview of what you need to know if you are absent from work for health reasons and to direct you to more detailed and comprehensive information that can be found elsewhere.

The guide is also a resource for those assisting you during your illness or return to work, such as your spouse, family, friends, or co-workers.

Download Workplace Health and Disability: A Guide for Employees and Those Supporting Them here (pdf).

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Hang out a shingle that you are interested in stories about bullying in the workplace, and you get an earful. Eventually you cannot help but think of all the money that businesses and government would save if they prevented or adequately addressed bullying or if, for example, Workplace Healthy and Safety were to add bullying to its jurisdiction.

Unfortunately, to date, a review of the Workplace Health, Safety and Compensation Commission by an independent review panel has failed to address this issue. The provincial government can still seize the opportunity in its upcoming response to the review panel’s report to finally deal with this issue.

New Brunswickers who have been targeted by a workplace bully say there is nowhere to turn. Women are more often than not the target of workplace bullying — repeated, unreasonable behaviour that intimidates or humiliates an employee or group of employees.

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Sisters and Brothers:

April 28, 2008 will mark the 24^th anniversary of the National Day of Mourning for workers killed and injured on the job. The National Day of Mourning was started in 1984 as an initiative of the Canadian Labour movement and this day of reflection is now established around the world.

• More Day of Mourning information, including a list of events in BC
• Read more Heath & Safety related posts

In 1984, according to the official figures listed by the Association of Workers’ Compensation Boards of Canada (AWCBC), 744 workers were listed as having died from workplace injuries. But instead of seeing and improvement is this tragic situation, the past two decades has actually seen an increase in the number of workplace fatalities. In 2006, the last year that the AWCBC has released statistics for, 976 workers were killed on the job due to workplace injuries.

However, we know that these statistics are grossly underestimated and that the real number of deaths resulting from occupational illness and disease, and other workerplace factors are never included in these official statistics, as it is extremely difficult to prove that deaths that are caused by occupational disease, such as cancer, are caused by exposure to hazards in the workplace.

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