News and upcoming events 2011-2012
June 2012
International Association of Workplace Bullying and Harassment
Professor Katherine Lippel will act as convenor of the Special Interest Group on Legal Issues at the International Association of Workplace Bullying and Harassment, June 2012 Conference in Copenhagen.
May 2012
CARWH May 31, June 1 & 2, 2012 Vancouver, BC
Annual conference of the Canadian Association for Research on Work and Health
Symposium: Gender differences in work exposures in Québec: Implications for policy and practice
January 2012
Chile Proyecto Araucaria
The Araucaria project included two axes of research : a) a study, in Chile, whose aim is to identify risk factors affecting workers’ mental health, particularly as they relate to new form of work organization and gender and social differences and inequalities; and b) a comparative analysis of various legal and policy instruments and tools addressing work related mental health issues in Canada, Chile and internationally, in order to identify best practices and policies to promote mental health at work. In January 2012, as part of closing activities for the project, researchers, students and stakeholders from Chile, Canada (both Québec and Ontario), Great Britain, Australia, Spain, Uruguay, Belgium, France, Colombia and Brazil met for three days in Santiago, Chile to share the results obtained since the beginning of the project. We also shared research experiences, and discussed the implications of these results on policies and practices addressing mental health issues in the workplace. The seminar was held in English and in Spanish and was jointly organized by the Canada Research Chair in Occupational Health and Safety Law, the Centro de Estudios de la Mujer (CEM), and the Programa de Estudios Psicosociales del Trabajo de la Facultad de Psicología de la Universidad Diego Portales. The Araucaria project was carried out with support from the Global Health Research Initiative (GHRI), a collaborative research funding partnership of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Canadian International Development Agency, Health Canada, the International Development Research Centre, and the Public Health Agency of Canada.
December 2011
Professor Katherine Lippel presented at the invitation of the Southwest University of Political Science and Law in Chongqing, China
Decembre 2011: symposium on the Rights of Domestic Workers concerning Workplace Health and Saftey.
Chongqing December 2011
STOPPING THE SPREAD OF PSYCHOSOCIAL HAZARDS AT WORK IN QUEBEC AND ONTARIO
A TEACH-IN FOR WORKER REPRESENTATIVES AND UNIONS, RESEARCHERS AND PRACTITIONERS, ON COMING TO GRIPS WITH VIOLENCE AND HARASSMENT AND OTHER PSYCHOSOCIAL HAZARDS AT WORK
OCTOBER 24-25, 2011 AT THE UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA TABARET HALL (LAURIER EAST AND CUMBERLAND) ROOM 112
www.uottawa.ca/maps/CampusMap.pdf loarc_notice loarc-_agenda
Published Sept 20,2011: Québec study on working, employment and OHS conditions (EQCOTESST)
The full report is available in French, and a summary in English.
M. Vézina, M., E. Cloutier, S. Stock, K. Lippel, É. Fortin et al (2011). Québec Survey on Working and Employment Conditions and Occupational Health and Safety (EQCOTESST), , Institut de recherche Robert-Sauvé en santé et sécurité du travail - Institut national de santé publique du Québec et Institut de la statistique du Québec (summary) ; http://www.irsst.qc.ca/en/-irsst-publication-quebec-survey-working-employment-conditions-occupational-health-safety-eqcotesst-rr-707.html
Katherine Lippel presents a paper on occupational violence in Québec at the Melbourne School of Population Health in Australia, June 20th 2011
International Symposium on Regulating OHS for Precarious Workers
Friday 17 June 2011 Deakin University Melbourne City Centre, Level 3, 550 Bourke Street Melbourne Victoria, Australia
The expansion of precarious employment carries new risks and complexities for occupational health and safety. This Symposium features presentations by Australian and international experts on regulating OHS for precarious employment to stimulate discussion about current barriers and facilitators to improving OHS; the implications of the proposed Model OHS Laws; and the effectiveness of the supply-chain regulatory approach. The Symposium will be of interest to regulators, to those with responsibilities for managing OHS for precarious workers, for unions representing precarious workers, and for researchers.
Special issue of Safety Science on psychosocial hazards, labour inspectors, and worker representatives
Katherine Lippel: guest editor of a special issues of Comparative Labor Law & Policy Journal
THE LAW OF WORKPLACE BULLYING:
THE LAW OF WORKPLACE BULLYING: AN INTERNATIONAL OVERVIEW Fall, 2010 32 Comp. Lab. L. & Pol'y J. 1
This issue brings together eight contributions from legal scholars and specialists in workplace bullying from four continents, who report on the state of the law governing a specific form of workplace abuse alternatively described as workplace bullying, psychological harassment, moral harassment, victimization, or mobbing.
THE LAW OF WORKPLACE BULLYING: AN INTERNATIONAL OVERVIEW pdf
CANADA: PSYCHOLOGICAL HARASSMENT LEGISLATION IN QUEBEC: THE FIRST FIVE YEARS.pdf
CHILE: LEGAL PROTECTION FOR VICTIMS OF WORKPLACE HARASSMENT IN CHILE.pdf
FRANCE: MORAL HARASSMENT IN THE WORKPLACE: FRENCH LAW AND EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVES.pdf
GERMANY _MOBBING_ THE GERMAN LAW OF BULLYING.pdf
SPAIN: THE SPANISH CODE OF PRACTICE ON WORK-RELATED BULLYING: REFLECTIONS ON EUROPEAN LAW AND IT.pdf
SWEDEN: THE SWEDISH ORDINANCE AGAINST VICTIMIZATION AT WORK: A CRITICAL ASSESSMENT.pdf
UNITED STATES: WORKPLACE BULLYING AND AMERICAN EMPLOYMENT LAW: A TEN-YEAR PROGRESS REPORT AND AS.pdf
Professors Daniel Castillo Durante and Katherine Lippel elected Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada
Katherine Lippel is 2010 winner of the
University of Ottawa Award for Excellence in Research (story in French only)
Katherine Lippel meeting a delegation from Japan
Katherine Lippel met a delegation from Japan, from the Ritsumeikan Asbestos Research Project, when they visited the CINBIOSE , in Montreal on September 8th 2010.
Members of the delegation were interested in compensation systems for occupational disease related to asbestos exposure. They were also interested in compensation for asbestos-related disease for those who are environmentally exposed, outside of the workplace. In France and Japan compensation systems exist for all those who develop disease related to asbestos exposure, but in Canada only those who are exposed at work have access to compensation. For more details on compensation systems in Canada see this report .
Excellence in Research Prize awarded to Katherine Lippel
Bibliography of the Canada Research Chair in Occupational Health and Safety Law
New report on Workers’ compensation for asbestos related disease
Workers’ compensation for asbestos related diseases in Canada (2009-2010)
New Publication
JurisClasseur Québec –
Rapports individuels et collectifs du travail
Rapports individuels du travail
Inspired by the classic French legal encyclopedia, JurisClasseur Québec has just published two new treatises on labour law for Québec.
Visiting scholar professor Mankui Li has just published a Chinese translation of Robert Bureau, Katherine Lippel & Lucie Lamarche, The Evolution of Social Laws in Canada (Mankui Li eds. and trans.,), in Symposium on Economic Law , vol. 7, at 373-394. (Beijing: China Qunzhong Press 2010).
Research seminar in Chile:
International research seminar on psycho-social hazards and the role of labour inspectors and workers’ representatives in their prevention: Reflections through a gender lens, Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago de Chile, 11-13th of January, 2010.
As part of the Araucaria research project funded by the Global Health Research Initiative (GHRI) , researchers, labour inspectors, and trade union representatives from Chile, Canada (Québec and Ontario), Great Britain, Australia, Spain and Brazil participated in a three day meeting to explore regulation, practices and strategies for better protection of workers’ mental health and reduction of psycho-social hazards and bullying. Topics were examined through a gender lens. The seminar, held in Spanish and English, was organized by the Chair and our research partners, the Centro de Estudios de la Mujer (CEM ) with the collaboration of the Programa de Estudios Psicosociales del Trabajo de la Facultad de Psicología de la Universidad Diego Portales.
Program: Seminar in Chile ( UDP-PROG-CEM-PEPT-ENG.pdf)
Noticia in Spanish about the Research Seminar in Chile
Katherine Lippel, Canada Research Chair in Occupational Health and Safety Law, University of Ottawa will give a keynote address entitled Invisibility of the health consequences of precarious employment.
The Canadian Association for Research on Work and Health (CARWH) conference will be held in Toronto on May 28-29, 2010, hosted by the Institute for Work & Health (IWH). The theme for the conference is, “Worker Health in a Changing World of Work.”
Canadian Association for Research on Work and Health (CARWH) May 28-29, 2010
Professor Mankui Li,
the visiting professor of the The Canada Research Chair on Occupational Health and Safety Law presented at the joint seminar with the Faculty of Law of the Southwest University of Political Science and Lay on the 11th and 12th of January a talk entitled HOW FAR How far does China lag behind international standard?
Bananas! byFredrik Gertten Canadian premiere PROJECTION - AGORA HYDRO-QUÉBEC 17 novembre 2009
Presentation by Christian Ståhl
The Canada Research Chair on Occupational Health and Safety Law and the Human Rights Research and Education Centre are very pleased to invite you to a presentation by Visiting Researcher, Christian Ståhl of the Swedish National Centre for Work and Rehabilitation at Linköping University. The format is a brown bag lunch. Water, tea and coffee will be provided. Please rsvp This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it by Friday October 30, 2009.
Karen Messing , recipient of the Governor General's award in commemoration of the Persons Case
Presentaion by Prof. Mankui Li
Prof. Mankui Li
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Biogrpahy:Prof. Mankui Li
We Can Do It:
Evidence and Interventions for Transforming Mental Health in the Workplace
4th Annual Canadian Congress for Research on Mental Health and Addiction in the Workplace
October 28, 29 and 30, 2009 at the Westin Harbour Castle , Toronto
The Congress website is updated daily. Please come back to check for updates.
Award of Excellence from the Centrale des Syndicats du Québec for Katherine Lippel
At the 2009 conference of the Centrale des Syndicats du Québec, Katherine Lippel was presented with the union's award for merit for her contributions to the movement especially in research and education for members and representatives. Read about this award (in French) in an article by Michelle Desfonds on the CSQ website .
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) to fund a new research programme on: "Workers' compensation systems and their consequences for injured workers: a comparative study in Quebec and Ontario of the role of doctors (2009 - 2012)"
Law Foundation of Ontario supports research
Katherine Lippel, chairholder of the Canada Research Chair in Occupational Health and Safety Law, is grateful for the support of the Law Foundation of Ontario, for the purchase of legal literature on occupational health and safety law in common law provinces. Legal scholars, students and related researchers at the Law and Occupational Health and Safety Research Laboratory will benefit from access to an enhanced collection of legal literature on this subject, thanks to the $25,000 grant from the Law Foundation of Ontario .
Katherine Lippel at National Taiwan University 17-22 May 2009
Annual Colloquium of the Réseau de recherche en santé et en sécurité du travail du Québec (RRSSTQ) was held during the ACFAS conference in May 2009 in Ottawa.
Three Awards of Excellence were given out at that time.
Participants gathered to discuss the following topics in support of knowledge transfer and exchange of ideas on health and safety at work during the symposium on workplace health and safety, chaired by Katherine Lippel, and also accredited by the Quebec Bar as a continuing education event:
1. concerns for reasonable accommodation and psychological harassment vs. return to work
2. effects on health of payment by piece-work
3. factors that influence, and effects of, the setting up of management systems for workplace health and safety
4. access to compensation for asbestos related illnesses
5. work-family balance
Four (4) topical presentations were made on knowledge transfer, statistics on the acceptance of work accidents that are compensated, compensated needle stick injuries by sutures or hypodermic needles, and mental health of nursing staff in a session presided by Laurent Giraud.
A round table discussion on mental health was chaired by Chantal Aurousseau and Marie Alderson.
Five (5) students presented results of their research. Three (3) awards of excellence were handed out to Stéphanie Premji (Univ. of California), Isabelle Aubé (Univ. of Ottawa) and Myriam Lavallée (Univ. Laval) (jury : Laurent Giraud and Sylvie Nadeau). Congratulations to all!
Isabelle Aubé cited in La Presse
Re: les travailleurs québécois disposent de recours en cas de harcèlement psychologique au travailSpanish language interviews on psycho-social risk factors
Manuel Parra; 1. 3 ª CONFERENCIA INTERNACIONAL SOBRE LOS FACTORES PSICO-SOCIALES EN EL TRABAJO (7:21)
Paloma Martínez
Talvez alguna vez ha sentido malestares en su lugar de trabajo... usted
no está solo. La mayoría de las personas han vivido algo similar en
algún momento en el ámbito laboral y no sólo eso, hay en el mundo,
miles de estudiosos de la salud en el trabajo. Desde el lunes pasado y
hasta hoy se lleva a cabo en la ciudad de Quebec, la 3ª Conferencia
Internacional sobre los Factores Psico-Sociales en el Trabajo.
Entrevista: Dr. Manuel Parra, miembro del comité científico de la Comisión Internacional de la Salud en el Trabajo.
FACTORES PSICOSOCIALES EN EL TRABAJO (8:22)
Katherine Lippel