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The Link2Build group publishes news and information about the Ontario construction industry daily. Check here for the latest in trends, developments and insight from a wide variety of contributors, and visit regularly for updated information.
Rapid test or medical note OK for COVID workplace claims during Omicron: WSIB
Ontarians who suspect they caught COVID-19 at work can make claims with the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board even without a positive result from a PCR test.
How businesses can best help employees disconnect from work
Right-to-disconnect legislation has limitations. It focuses on specific hours employees are free to disconnect and establishes a window during which they must be accessible.
New Age Metals, Nipissing First Nation agree to MOU for Sudbury mine project
The parties agreed to build a cooperative and mutually respectful relationship around the mining company’s exploration and development programs on its palladium mine project near Sudbury.
RESCON pre-budget submission calls for supports to ease housing crisis and employ more foreign-trained construction workers
The submission calls for changes to the residential permitting system, as well as to skilled labour regulations to bring foreign-trained workers into non-compulsory trades.
Feds commit $37M to 150 affordable housing units in Hamilton, Niagara
An investment of $10.5 million will support the construction of 42 units in Welland, while a further $26.5 million will support the construction of 109 units in Hamilton.