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Do you feel your health and safety is at risk in your workplace? Follow these steps.
1. Tell your supervisor. In all Canadian jurisdictions, including the Federal jurisdiction, the respective occupational health and safety acts state that it is the primary duty of the employer to provide workers with a safe workplace. Your supervisor is the first link in a chain that goes to the top, so they need to be told about the hazards and dangers you discover in the workplace.
Communications and Political Action
January 31, 2018
No job is worth dying over. You have the Right to Know, the Right to Participate
and the Right to Refuse Dangerous Work.
The step by step process
Do you feel your health and safety is at risk in your workplace? Follow these steps.
Health and safety assistance in your region
Regional Health and Safety Representatives are available to assist members with specific health and safety issues.
Working with our national health and safety program
January 10, 2018
1. Tell your supervisor. In all Canadian jurisdictions, including the Federal jurisdiction, the respective occupational health and safety acts state that it is the primary duty of the employer to provide workers with a safe workplace. Your supervisor is the first link in a chain that goes to the top, so they need to be told about the hazards and dangers you discover in the workplace.
An important note: No job is worth dying over. You have the Right to Know, the Right to Participate and the Right to Refuse Dangerous Work.
November 15, 2017
A useful resource of definitions for the most common labour terms.
July 17, 2017
The Finance Minister has said he would like the new Canada Infrastructure Bank up and running by the end of 2017. Operational details for the project were only included in the recently-tabled Budget Implementation Act, and the government has already begun a recruitment drive for the Bank’s leadership.
June 15, 2017
PSAC celebrates the news that the Senate has finally adopted Bill C-16, which will enshrine trans rights into Canadian law. Bill C-16 finally passed the Senate on June 15, after passing the House of Commons in October 2016.
“This represents a huge step forward in defense of trans peoples’ right to work in an environment where they are respected and protected against prejudice and hate,” said Robyn Benson, PSAC National President.
March 21, 2017
From left to right: Terri Lee, Randy Olynyk, Eryn Butterfield, Marlene O’Neil, Michael Urminsky (PIPSC Negotiator), Hassan Husseini (PSAC Negotiator), Nicholas Pernal (PIPSC Negotiator), Karen Zoller, Richard Hilson, Rick Cormier, Jacques Rousseau, Mathieu Brûlé (PSAC Research Officer)
March 9, 2017
The Liberal government is in a position to take real action that would greatly improve women’s economic security.
February 17, 2017
Have your say. It’s been a year. Fix Phoenix. Tell Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to fix Phoenix and learn from the mistakes that led to this debacle
October 26, 2016
The Liberal government is following the Conservatives’ lead by introducing legislation that will allow employers to reduce pension benefits.
Bill C-27, An Act to amend the Pension Benefits Standards Act, had its first reading in the House of Commons last week.
A target benefit pension plan is a big gamble
This bill will allow employers to shift from good, defined benefit plans that provide secure and predictable pension benefits, into the much less secure form of target benefits.