Westray Bill
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Dartmouth family urges construction workers to ‘say no’ to unsafe workBrandon Alcorn had been working in construction for around eight months, when on March 13, 2018, he fell at a site in the Dartmouth Crossing shopping area and suffered irreparable brain damage.InvestigationsSep 11, 2019
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14-year-old criminal law for workplace fatalities rarely being enforcedThe Westray Bill is a law created over a decade ago that allows police to lay criminal negligence charges against corporations when someone dies on the job. But there's been a staggering lack of enforcement.CrimeNov 27, 2018
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N.S. Federation of Labour wants to see more charges under Westray Bill"There's no sense in having a law if we're not going to abide by the law."CanadaSep 29, 2017
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