agreements Flashcards

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occupational health and safety act

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defines the rights and responsibilities of employees in their workplace to ensure their health and safety. put in place to remind companies the importance of making profit but also to look after health and safety of workers

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ohsa workers rights

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right to refuse unsafe work, right to participate in workplace health and safety activities, right to know about actual hazards in the workplace

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canadian human rights act

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states the employees with disabilities must be accommodated by business as long as undue hardship does not occur to the business

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environmental protection act

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protection and conservation of the natural environemtn

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employment standards act

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work rights and obligations

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kyoto protocol

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signed in 1998. states countries must reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 2012

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paris agreement

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aims to strengthen countries’ ability to deal with the impacts of climate change. sets out a global framework to avoid dangerous climate change by limiting global warming to well below 2°C and pursuing efforts to limit it to 1.5°C

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personal information protection and electronic documents act

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rules for the collection, use and access of personal information

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