Effective September 1, 2025, all provincially regulated employers in Nova Scotia are required to establish and implement a written workplace harassment prevention policy and ensure that all employees are trained on the new policy. The requirements are included in Part 27: Harassment in the Workplace, in the Workplace Health and Safety Regulations under Nova Scotia’s Occupational Health and Safety Act.

• New rules in Nova Scotia applicable to all provincially regulated workplaces define “workplace harassment” to include bullying, intimidation, threats, and unwanted sexual conduct.
• The rules require employers to establish and implement a written workplace harassment prevention policy.
• Employers are also required to train all employees on the workplace harassment prevention policy.
• The rules took effect September 1, 2025.

The regulations now define “workplace harassment” as:

a single significant occurrence or a course of repeated occurrences of objectionable or unwelcome conduct, comment or action in the workplace, including bullying, that, whether intended or not, degrades, intimidates or threatens, and includes all of the following, but does not include any action taken by an employer or supervisor relating to the management and direction of an employee or the workplace:

(i) workplace harassment or bullying that is based on any personal characteristic, including, but not limited to a characteristic referred to in clauses 5(1)(h) to (v) of the Human Rights Act,

(ii)...

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