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Canada: Réforme des régimes de pension: le «fédéralisme à son meilleur

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La Presse (19.09.2016) Le gouvernement fédéral croit que la réforme du Régime de pensions du Canada (RPC) provoquera un léger ralentissement de l'économie et de l'emploi à court terme, mais qu'elle aura un effet stimulant à long terme.

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Canada: CCOHS launches website to bring health, work, wellness together

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cos-mag (05.10.2016) The Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS) has released a new Healthy Workplaces website that brings together some of the best information, tools and resources available to help employers, workers and practitioners participate in making their workplaces healthy and safe.

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Occupational accidents and diseases

Canada: Les maladies professionnelles, un risque bien réel

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Journal de Montréal /18.10.2016) Les maladies professionnelles sont définies comme telles quand leur origine est en lien direct avec l’emploi exercé par le salarié qui en souffre. Cela semble une évidence, mais dans un contexte où les perturbations extérieures sont légion, il faut savoir distinguer celles qui en découlent réellement. C’est un risque bien réel dans certaines professions et qui en règle générale est assez bien reconnu, car récurrent et plus ou moins nuisible selon les secteurs.

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Occupational accidents and diseases

Canada: Ontario eyes stronger protections for workers who get sick on the job

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Toronto Star (16.01.2017) Ontario aims to have a dedicated occupational disease response team in place by the end of the year to improve prevention and enforcement, as well as help workers who get sick from chemical exposures file compensation claims, the Star has learned.

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Occupational accidents and diseases

Only half of disabled Canadians have a full or part-time job: CIBC poll

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CTV News (17.01.2017) A new poll suggests that employment conditions remain dismal for Canadians with disabilities. The survey commissioned by CIBC and conducted by Angus Reid found that only half of respondents living with a disability have a full or part-time job.

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Unemployment

Canada: Les emplois les plus dangereux au Québec

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Journal de Montreal (06.02.2017) Travailler peut s’avérer dangereux. En effet, en 2015, 196 personnes ont perdu la vie à cause de leur travail, d’après le rapport de la Commission des normes, de l’équité, de la santé et de la sécurité du travail (CNESST).

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Occupational accidents and diseases

Canada: Researchers seeking employers for occupational health and safety study

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Daily Commercial News (24.02.2017) In the first study of its kind in Canada, a team of researchers at the Institute for Work & Health (IWH) has set out to answer a question: How much do Ontario employers spend to prevent work-related injuries and illnesses?

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Occupational accidents and diseases

Canada: Occupatioanal diseases - Three cancers added to list of firefighters' illnesses eligible for coverage in B.C.

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CTV Vancouver News (06,03.2017) The British Columbia government is adding three types of cancer to those that could be considered occupational diseases suffered by firefighters. A release from the Ministry of Jobs, Tourism and Skills Training says breast cancer, prostate cancer and multiple myeloma will be added to the Firefighters Occupational Disease Regulation under the Workers Compensation Act.

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Occupational accidents and diseases