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can form part of a company‘s recruitment processes. This is a brief overview of the Canadian legislation to be considered when implementing policies and procedures for background checking in Canada. Comprehensive legislation regulating collection, use and disclosure of employee personal information in the private sector currently exists in Alberta, British Columbia, Quebec and federally. Each province in Canada and the federal jurisdiction also have enacted human rights legislation that prohibits discrimination in employment based on specified individual characteristics, beliefs and relationships known as ―prohibited grounds of discrimination.‖


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UNITED KINGDOM Half of Workforce Feels Bullied


If you‘re aware of bullying at your workplace, or are a victim yourself, you‘re not alone. According to a survey by CareerBuilder.co.uk, half of UK workers revealed that they have been bullied at work. ―It is important to remember that bullying impacts workers of all backgrounds regardless of race, education, age, income and level of authority within an organisation,‖ said Rosemary Haefner, Vice President of Human Resources at CareerBuilder. ―Many of the workers who


have experienced bullying don‘t confront the bully or decide not to report the incidents which can prolong a negative work experience that leads some to leave their jobs.‖


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Union claims LHSC failed to report all incidents to the Labour Ministry, which has yet to respond London‘s largest hospital and Ontario‘s Labour Ministry sat idle while attacks on nurses escalated twenty-fold according to the province‘s nurses‘ union.


―This has left our nurses with head injuries and broken bones, yet the employer and the Ministry of Labour have yet to take action,‖ said Linda Haslam-Stroud, head of the Ontario Nurses‘ Association (ONA). Her call for action came a week after The Free Press discovered violence had grown so pervasive in the psychiatric ward at Victoria Hospital in London that 35 nurses had been assaulted or threatened in a month and leadership at the ward triggered emergency measures to try to regain safety for staff and patients.


According to Haslam-Stroud, the number of violent attacks on nurses grew to 360 in 2014 from 18 in 2013. Since the start of January there have been another 36 incidents. ―London Health Sciences Centre has experienced up to five violent incidents on a single day, yet calls for action by our nurses are being ignored,‖ she wrote in a media release.


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