diff --git a/NativeScript/runtime/js/node-worker-threads.js b/NativeScript/runtime/js/node-worker-threads.js
index e4b8ed1d..e54a8f04 100644
--- a/NativeScript/runtime/js/node-worker-threads.js
+++ b/NativeScript/runtime/js/node-worker-threads.js
@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ const { BroadcastChannel } = require("internal/broadcast-channel");
 const {
   EventTarget,
   defineEventHandler,
+  dispatchEventRethrowing,
   globalEventTarget,
 } = require("internal/events");
 
@@ -64,7 +65,6 @@ const globalPostMessage = g.postMessage;
 
 const addEventListener = EventTarget.prototype.addEventListener;
 const removeEventListener = EventTarget.prototype.removeEventListener;
-const dispatchEvent = EventTarget.prototype.dispatchEvent;
 
 // Runs `fn` after the caller returns. Node reports 'online' and 'exit' from
 // the thread's own lifecycle; the runtime's Worker has no equivalent signal,
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ class WorkerEmitter {
     }
     const key = `${type}`;
     const list = this.#listeners[key] || (this.#listeners[key] = []);
-    ArrayPrototypePush(list, { listener, once: true });
+    ArrayPrototypePush(list, { listener, once: true, fired: false });
     return this;
   }
 
@@ -124,15 +124,23 @@ class WorkerEmitter {
     return this.removeListener(type, listener);
   }
 
+  // Whether a listener was registered, as Node's EventEmitter reports it.
   emit(type, arg) {
     const list = this.#listeners[type];
-    if (list === undefined) {
-      return;
+    if (list === undefined || list.length === 0) {
+      return false;
     }
     const snapshot = ArrayPrototypeSlice(list);
     for (let i = 0; i < snapshot.length; i++) {
       const entry = snapshot[i];
       if (entry.once) {
+        // Node's once wrapper: a registration fires at most once, even when
+        // an earlier listener emits the same event again and the nested emit
+        // fires it first.
+        if (entry.fired) {
+          continue;
+        }
+        entry.fired = true;
         const index = ArrayPrototypeIndexOf(list, entry);
         if (index !== -1) {
           ArrayPrototypeSplice(list, index, 1);
@@ -140,6 +148,7 @@ class WorkerEmitter {
       }
       FunctionPrototypeCall(entry.listener, this, arg);
     }
+    return true;
   }
 }
 
@@ -182,8 +191,10 @@ class Worker extends WorkerEmitter {
     worker.onmessageerror = function (event) {
       self.emit("messageerror", event.data);
     };
+    // A truthy return cancels the error, so one an 'error' listener took is
+    // not reported to the parent's global scope as well.
     worker.onerror = function (error) {
-      self.emit("error", error);
+      return self.emit("error", error);
     };
     // The runtime's end-of-worker event: the one place 'exit' comes from, for
     // a worker's own close() and for terminate() alike, so nothing the worker
@@ -344,9 +355,11 @@ ObjectDefineProperty(ParentPort.prototype, SymbolToStringTag, {
 let parentPort = null;
 if (!isMainThread) {
   parentPort = new ParentPort();
+  // Rethrowing, so a listener that throws reaches the worker's error chain
+  // (the scope's onerror, then the parent's Worker) the way a throwing
+  // onmessage on the global scope does.
   const relay = function (event) {
-    FunctionPrototypeCall(
-      dispatchEvent,
+    dispatchEventRethrowing(
       parentPort,
       getCreateMessageEvent()(event.type, event.data, event.ports)
     );
diff --git a/TestRunner/app/tests/MessagingTests.js b/TestRunner/app/tests/MessagingTests.js
index f6695984..16e0faef 100644
--- a/TestRunner/app/tests/MessagingTests.js
+++ b/TestRunner/app/tests/MessagingTests.js
@@ -330,6 +330,65 @@ describe("Messaging runtime edges", function () {
             worker = new Worker("./messaging/throwingWorker.js");
         });
 
+        it("lets a node:worker_threads 'error' listener consume the error", function (done) {
+            var wt = require("node:worker_threads");
+            var globalErrors = [];
+            var listener = function (event) {
+                globalErrors.push(event.message);
+                event.preventDefault();
+            };
+            addEventListener("error", listener);
+            var worker = new wt.Worker("~/tests/messaging/throwingWorker.js");
+            worker.on("error", function (error) {
+                setTimeout(function () {
+                    removeEventListener("error", listener);
+                    expect(error.message).toContain("boom from worker");
+                    expect(globalErrors).toEqual([]);
+                    worker.terminate();
+                    done();
+                }, SETTLE);
+            });
+        });
+
+        it("calls a node:worker_threads once listener once when an earlier listener emits again", function () {
+            var wt = require("node:worker_threads");
+            var worker = new wt.Worker("~/tests/eventLoopEchoWorker.js");
+            var calls = 0;
+            var nested = false;
+            worker.on("probe", function () {
+                if (!nested) {
+                    nested = true;
+                    worker.emit("probe");
+                }
+            });
+            worker.once("probe", function () { calls++; });
+            worker.emit("probe");
+            worker.terminate();
+            expect(calls).toBe(1);
+        });
+
+        it("routes a throw from a parentPort listener to the parent's 'error' listeners", function (done) {
+            var wt = require("node:worker_threads");
+            var worker = new wt.Worker("~/tests/messaging/parentPortThrowingWorker.js");
+            var messages = [];
+            var finish = function () {
+                expect(messages.length).toBe(1);
+                expect(messages[0]).toContain("thrown by a parentPort listener");
+                worker.terminate();
+                done();
+            };
+            // Nothing else settles the spec when the error never arrives.
+            var guard = setTimeout(finish, 10000);
+            worker.on("error", function (error) {
+                messages.push(error.message);
+                if (messages.length === 1) {
+                    clearTimeout(guard);
+                    setTimeout(finish, SETTLE);
+                }
+            });
+            worker.postMessage("go");
+        });
+
         it("forwards the error a throwing scope onerror raised for a rejection, once", function (done) {
             var worker = new Worker("./messaging/rejectingWorker.js");
             var messages = [];
diff --git a/TestRunner/app/tests/messaging/parentPortThrowingWorker.js b/TestRunner/app/tests/messaging/parentPortThrowingWorker.js
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..7e2f08c3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/TestRunner/app/tests/messaging/parentPortThrowingWorker.js
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+var parentPort = require("node:worker_threads").parentPort;
+parentPort.on("message", function () {
+    throw new Error("thrown by a parentPort listener");
+});