“Most employers have learned to guard against litigation by ensuring the physical safety of their workers, but more of them must now add protections for psychological well-being, says a leading expert in workplace mental health.
Martin Shain, a professor at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto who also has legal training, first identified the trend in a June 2009 report to the Mental Health Commission of Canada.
In the report titled “Stress at Work, Mental Injury and the Law in Canada,” he observed that the employee-employer relationship is rapidly changing thanks to a flood of case law precedents, new legislation, and tribunal rulings.”
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