A CBC News investigation has uncovered questionable methods used by WorkSafeBC to avoid compensating workers for costly injuries. "They're trying to force me to go on welfare," says former tow truck ...

A B.C. paramedic says the province's outdated rules mean first responders who suffer psychological trauma on the job are treated like "disposable heroes". Joanne Trofanenko was shocked when WorkSafeBC ...

Young workers in the construction sector were the third-highest group to file an accepted WorkSafeBC claim in 2021.sturti/E+/Getty Images Summer job season is here. With it, comes a warning from ...

Nearly 9,000 mental health-related claims have been registered with WorkSafeBC since the organization expanded its coverage to include these issues in 2012. It’s still “a small percentage of all of ...

British Columbia's Opposition labour critic claims it is time to change the legislation that protects workers injured on the job. Spokespeople for WorkSafeBC, the provincial Crown agency that ...

WorkSafeBC is calling on employers to improve their violence-prevention strategies after new data revealed a 25-per-cent increase in workplace claims related to violence in the past five years. In a ...

Over 15,000 claims were filed with B.C.'s workplace regulator regarding COVID-19 exposures since the first case of the virus was recorded in the province three years ago. According to data from ...

More than half of the 237 British Columbians who have filed claims for COVID-19 exposure in the workplace are health or social workers, according to WorkSafeBC. There have been 30 claims in the ...

VICTORIA — B.C. workers who get COVID-19 could soon have a much easier time obtaining compensation from WorkSafeBC, under proposed new changes that are being praised by organized labour but slammed by ...

‘If you have a universal paid sick leave program that allows workers to stay home, then they’re not going to work and putting themselves and their co-workers at risk.’ Photo via Shutterstock. Amid a ...

VICTORIA — B.C. workers who get COVID-19 could soon have a much easier time obtaining compensation from WorkSafeBC, under proposed new changes that are being praised by organized labour but slammed by ...