CanadaImmigrants.com Alberta Desk - The Alberta government says it wants to release the names of companies with poor safety records, but it needs legal approval first to ensure no privacy laws are broken. On Wednesday, acting auditor general Merwan Saher called on the province to get tough on this "small, but high-risk" group of employers, who have higher-than-average rates of workers with disabling injuries — in many cases, three to four times the provincial average — and consistently fail to abide by orders from Occupational Health and Safety. "I want to be satisfied 100 per cent that they indeed fall into that category because I would hate to put a business — and hence, workers — out of work by saying, 'Whoops, I made a mistake.'" "I know who they are, but now to make this public, it could potentially put them out of business," provincial Employment and Immigration Minister Thomas Lukaszuk said Thursday.. As
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