Team
Members of the team of the Canada Research Chair on Occupational Health and Safety Law.
Personnel
Sandra Métayer is the administrative assistant and ensures the day to day operations of the Research Laboratory for Research on Occupational Health and Safety and Law at 603 King Edward Street. Marie-Claire Lefebvre is a research professional who works on several projects. Recently she has examined the powers of labour inspectors to apply occupational health and safety legislation, the experiences of workers who return to work following a workplace injury, and access to compensation for workers with musculoskeletal injuries in the Quebec workers' compensation regime.
Frederick Sweet is a technical aid who sees to the construction and deployment of computer based research databases.
Caroline Couillard is the Canadian coordinator of the project "Research, Policy and Practice with regard to work-related mental health problems in Chile: a gender perspective".
Students and post-doctoral researchers
Andrew King, is a student in the Masters of Law programme of the University of Ottawa. He is studying workers’ compensation in Ontario as it applies to workers suffering from chronic pain.
Anette Sikka is a lawyer and student in Law at the University of Ottawa where she is writing her doctoral dissertation entitled Trafficking in Persons in Canada: Looking for a ‘Victim’.Julia Gitahy da Paixao is a student in the doctoral program in Law at the University of Ottawa where she is writing her doctoral dissertation entitled Comparative Analysis of Law Governing Psychological Harassment in Brazil and Québec.
Lidia Casas is a doctoral student in Law at the University of Ottawa, and a professor in the Faculty of Law of the Univesidad Diego Portales in Santiago, Chile. Lidia Casa is continuing her doctoral work on the Chilean law pertaining to sexual harassment entitled Sexual Harassment Legislation in Chile: Scope of Protection and Implementation Challenges.
Geneviève Laurence is a lawyer who finished her studies in the Master's programme in Law at the University of Ottawa in 2009, with the deposit of her thesis entitled Environmental Sensitivities : Why the Confusion? An Examination of OWSIAT Workers’ Compensation Decisions and the Role of Medical and Scientific Evidence in Determining Causation and Disability.
Rachel Cox is a lawyer and doctoral student in Law at the University of Ottawa who is working on recent legislation in Québec concerning psychological harassment in the workplace and its implications for unions and unionized workers. She is now an associate professor in the Department of Judicial Sciences of the Université du Québec à Montréal.
Stéphanie Premji finished her doctorate in Environmental Science at the Université du Québec à Montréal in 2008. Her dissertation was on the relationships between ethnicity, gender and occupational health and safety.
Friha Bdioui has finished her master's thesis entitled Les maladies pulmonaires professionnelles liées à l’amiante en France et au Québec : Réparation et prévention and received a mention of Excellent for this work. She has graduated from the Department of Judicial Sciences of the Université du Québec à Montréal.
Isabelle Aubé has received her Master's diploma in Law from Department of Judicial Sciences of the Université du Québec à Montréal following the deposit of her thesis entitled Le traitement des plaintes de harcèlement psychologique dans le cadre des processus de médiation de la Commission des normes du travail et de conciliation de la Commission des lésions professionnelles and she is continuing her studies for a Doctorate in Law from the University of Ottawa. She is working on privacy rights for injured workers.
Julie Massé has written her Master's thesis entitled L’effectivité des nouvelles dispositions à l’encontre du harcèlement psychologique au travail dans la Loi sur les normes du travai.