--- title: Audit, Compliance and Risk Blog | STP | Ontario description: Ontario | STP's blog giving insight into audit, compliance and risk issues for EHS, business and accounting. --- [![Specialty Technical Publishers](https://blog.stpub.com/hubfs/STP-logo-white-orange.png)](http://www.stpub.com/) - [My Account](http://stponline.stpub.com) - 1-800-251-0381 # Audit, Compliance and Risk Blog ## [Deadlocked Supreme Court of Canada allows restriction of owner-employer contracting out OHS responsibilities to contractors](https://blog.stpub.com/deadlocked-supreme-court-of-canada-allows-restriction-of-owner-employer-contracting-out-ohs-responsibilities-to-contractors) Posted by [Jon Elliott](https://blog.stpub.com/author/jon-elliott) on Thu, Nov 30, 2023 - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) [![](https://blog.stpub.com/hubfs/images/Supreme_Court_Canada_cropped.jpg) ](https://blog.stpub.com/deadlocked-supreme-court-of-canada-allows-restriction-of-owner-employer-contracting-out-ohs-responsibilities-to-contractors) Throughout North America, Canadian occupational health and safety (OHS) agencies and US occupational safety and health (OSH) agencies administer and enforce worker protection laws. These laws require extensive employer efforts to protect employees – although in some situations it’s unclear which employer(s) are responsible for which workers. These complex situations include construction sites where one or more landowners or property occupiers hire one or more contractors to performer work. In November 2023 the Supreme Court of Canada deadlocked four-to-three-to-one in a case involving liability for a municipal “owner” that had attempted to contract all responsibilities (and potential liabilities) to the contractor (“constructor”) hired to repair a municipal water main, after a worksite death. (*R. v. Greater Sudbury (City)*) Because the Supreme Court deadlocked, the Ontario Court of Appeal decision finding the city liable becomes the law of the case, overturning many years of practice in which owners contracted-out OHS responsibilities to their constructors. [Read More](https://blog.stpub.com/deadlocked-supreme-court-of-canada-allows-restriction-of-owner-employer-contracting-out-ohs-responsibilities-to-contractors) 0 Comments [Click here to read/write comments](https://blog.stpub.com/deadlocked-supreme-court-of-canada-allows-restriction-of-owner-employer-contracting-out-ohs-responsibilities-to-contractors#comments-listing) Tags: [OSHA](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/osha), [Supreme Court](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/supreme-court), [workplace safety](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/workplace-safety), [Canada](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/canada), [Ontario Court](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/ontario-court), [Ontario](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/ontario) ## [New legislation imposes additional legal obligations for Ontario workplaces](https://blog.stpub.com/new-legislation-imposes-additional-legal-obligations-for-ontario-workplaces) Posted by [BLG’s Labour and Employment Group](https://blog.stpub.com/author/blgs-labour-and-employment-group) on Mon, May 16, 2022 - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) [![](https://blog.stpub.com/hubfs/Ontario.png) ](https://blog.stpub.com/new-legislation-imposes-additional-legal-obligations-for-ontario-workplaces) Employers in Ontario need to be aware of several new obligations as a result of Bill 88, the *Working for Workers Act, 2022*. They include a written policy on electronic monitoring for certain employers, new measures regarding “information technology consultants” and “business consultants,” a new legislative framework for digital platform workers and additional occupational health and safety legislation obligations. Steps can be taken now to proactively plan for the changes that are in force and that will come in force in the near future. Bill 88 was passed by the Ontario legislature on April 7, 2022 and received royal assent on April 11, 2022. Employers should be up to date with Bill 88 in order to ensure compliance. Here is a summary of the key points from Bill 88. 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