Employee Rights In all workplaces in Nova Scotia, employees have the following three basic rights under the IRS:

1. Right To Know about workplace hazards that can affect their health and safety.
2. Right To Participate in their own health and safety.
3. Right To Refuse work they feel is unsafe or unhealthy to them or someone else.

1. The right to know about the hazards of a workplace should be in action the first day a worker heads off to his or her job. Having the right to know about hazards includes the workers’ right to ask about hazards, and employers’ responsibility to tell him or her about the hazards at that workplace. This includes how to avoid potential injury from those hazards. Every workplace, every job, has hazards. But when workers exercise their right to know, and employers fulfill their responsibility to tell and educate, the chance of being injured goes down, and the health and safety of the workplace goes up!