Category: Workplace health and safety

Working for an Employer May Be Dangerous to Your Health, Part Nine

As another year passes with more workers dying while working for an employer, and the platitudes come pouring in about the importance of recogizing April 28 as the Day of Mourning for workers who have died on the job, it is better to continue to analyze critically the issue of what workplace safety means in … Continue reading Working for an Employer May Be Dangerous to Your Health, Part Nine →

Getting Away with Murder and Bodily Assault: Employers and the Law

Steven Bittle, in his doctoral dissertation, Still Dying for a Living: Shaping Corporate Criminal Liability After the Westray Mine Disaster (Kingston, Ontario: Queen's University argues the following (from page ii): Overall, the dissertation suggests that the assumptions that animated Canada’s corporate criminal liability legislation and the meanings inscribed in its provisions throw serious doubt on … Continue reading Getting Away with Murder and Bodily Assault: Employers and the Law →