The finding by the senior investigator comes in response to fisheries department enforcement officers filing refusal to work applications under provisions of the Canada Labour Code
A labour investigator has agreed with federal fishery officers that heavily armed criminals pose a threat to their lives and has ordered managers to take steps immediately to reduce the danger.
The investigator concludes fishery officers in the Maritime region are having to confront people with weapons, including cases where intelligence indicates the fisher “keeps an assault rifle on board.” The document doesn’t indicate what steps the labour investigator took to confirm the reports the officers made about the dangers they face. Employment and Social Development Canada – which is responsible for the federal labour program – declined to confirm the details of the report or to comment further on it, citing “confidentiality reasons” that limits the sharing of information to employers and employees during an investigation.
The investigator’s directive to the federal fisheries department concludes current protective equipment and tactical protocols are inadequate and therefore the officers’ enforcement duties “could reasonably be expected to present a serious threat to their life and health.” Shimen Fayad, president of the Union of Health and Environment Workers, told The Canadian Press last week that members in the fisheries department were “exposed to firearms such as automatic weapons which their current body armour does not protect them.”
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