Verbal threat considered workplace violence

Lack of remorse or acknowledgment of death threat made termination appropriate discipline: Arbitrator

It has been more than a year since the Ontario government established the amendments to the province’s Occupational Health and Safety Act, which have commonly been referred to as the Bill 168 amendments. Since then there has been little, if any, case law to assist employers and employees with the interpretation and application of the Bill 168 amendments regarding violence and harassment in the workplace. However, on Aug. 18, 2011, the first Bill 168 arbitration decision was made in the matter of Kingston (City) v. Canadian Union of Public Employees, Local 109, which provided well needed insight into how the Bill 168 amendments are to function in the workplace and how they may be used to terminate an employee.

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