Right to Refuse to Work Sample Clauses
Right to Refuse to Work. Subject to all provisions of the Northwest Territories Safety Act R.S.N.W.T. 1988 c.s-1, as amended and to the Safety Regulations prescribed under the Safety Act as amended:
(a) employees may refuse to do any work where they have reason to believe that:
(i) there exists an unusual danger to their health and safety;
(ii) the carrying out of the work is likely to cause to exist an unusual danger to their health or safety or that of any other person; or
(iii) the operation of any tool, appliance, machine, device or thing is likely to cause to exist an unusual danger to their health or safety or that of any other person.
(b) ‘unusual danger’ means, in relation to any condition:
(i) a danger that does not normally exist in that occupation; or
(ii) a danger under which persons engaged in that occupation would not normally carry out their work.
(c) No loss of wages or discriminatory action shall be taken against employees by reason of the fact that they exercised the right conferred upon them in subsection (a).
(d) No other employee shall be required to use or operate any machine, device, material or thing or perform any part of the work which is being investigated pending resolution of the situation.
Right to Refuse to Work with Non-Union Employees Refusal on the part of Union members to work with non-Union employees, pertaining to the bargaining unit, shall not be deemed a breach of this Agreement. In such cases, the Employer involved will be given prior notice.
Right to Refuse to Work. An employee may refuse to work in accordance with the provisions of the Occupational Health and Safety Act where the worker has reason to believe that:
(a) Any equipment, machine, device or thing the worker is to use or operate is likely to endanger himself, herself or another worker.
(b) The physical condition of the workplace or part thereof in which he or she works or is to work is likely to endanger himself or herself; or see any equipment, machine, device or thing he or she is to use or operate or the physical condition of the workplace or the part thereof in which he or she works or is to work is in contravention of this Act or the regulations and such contravention is likely to endanger himself, herself or another worker. All rights and responsibilities of the employee in connection with such qualifying work refusals must be complied with in accordance with Part V of the Occupational Health and Safety Act.
Right to Refuse to Work. Subject to all provisions of the Northwest Territories Safety Act and to the Safety Regulations:
(a) an employee may refuse to do any work where he has reason to believe that:
(i) there exists an unusual danger to his health and safety:
(ii) the carrying out of the work is likely to cause to exist an unusual danger to his health or safety or that of any other person; or
(iii) the operation of any tool appliance machine device or thing is likely to cause to exist an unusual danger to his health or safety or that of any other person.
(b) unusual danger‘ means, in relation to any condition:
(i) a danger that does not normally exist in that occupation; or
(ii) a danger under which a person engaged in that occupation would not normally carry out his work.
(c) No loss of wages or discriminatory action shall be taken against any employee by reason of the fact that he exercised the right conferred upon him in subsection (a).
(d) No other employee shall be required to use or operate any machine, device, material or thing or perform any part of the work which is being investigated pending resolution of the situation.