Media Advisory - ONA President to Make Submission on New Workplace Violence
Legislation

TORONTO , Nov. 23 /CNW/ - Ontario Nurses' Association (ONA) President Linda Haslam-Stroud, RN will be at Queen's Park tomorrow to present input to the Standing Committee on Social Policy on Bill 168, Violence and Harassment in the Workplace.

Ontario nurses have a particular interest in this legislation, proposed to amend the Occupational Health and Safety Act, because of the high incidence of workplace violence suffered by nurses.

ONA member Lori Dupont , RN, was murdered in her workplace - Hotel-Dieu Grace Hospital in Windsor - in 2005. A subsequent coroner's jury inquest recommended changes to strengthen the Act.

Haslam-Stroud will appear before the committee at 4:30 pm on Tuesday, November 24 .

ONA is the union representing 54,000 front-line registered nurses and allied health professionals and more than 10,000 nursing students providing care in hospitals, long-term care facilities, public health, the community, clinics and industry.

    
    What:        ONA President Linda Haslam-Stroud, RN, to present input to
                 the Standing Committee on Social Policy regarding Bill 168,
                 Violence and Harassment in the Workplace

    Where:       Committee Room 1, Queen's Park, Toronto

    When:        4:30 pm, Tuesday, November 24, 2009
    

For further information: Sheree Bond, [phone], ext. 2430, cell: [phone]; Melanie Levenson, [phone], ext. 2369