The Political Economy Of The Canadian Workers ' Compensation System

The Canada Labour Code is a comprehensive set of laws covering various labour issues such as industrial and union relations, employment standards, and workplace health and safety. The code however, only applies to industries that are under federal governmental jurisdiction – such as banks, airports, broadcasting, telecommunications, transportation, and navigation. Part II of the code identifies specific roles for employers and employees to recognize, resolve, and prevent any work-related hazards and safety issues. The code gives employees several rights to ensure their safety including the right to be informed of any foreseeable hazards, the right to correct any health and safety concerns,

Compensation culture is a culture where individuals try to get compensation for any loss, damage, or suffering caused by another individual. This commonly stretches to include incidents that have weak or insubstantial links between the claimant and defendant (Horsey and Rackley 2009). Lord Falconer the former Lord Chancellor defines compensation culture as

Fig. 3 "Current Publications: Employment and Labour." : The Employment Insurance Program in Canada: How It Works. N.p., n.d. Web. 21 Feb. 2016.

In Wayne Roberts and John Bullen’s A Heritage of Hope and Struggle: Workers, Unions and Politics of Canada 1930-1982, Roberts and Bullen’s outline the struggles and hardships Canadians endure post WWII on their path to prosperity with their employers. The journey begins late 1940s; conflicts emerge regarding union security which results in strikes, the 1945 Ford Windsor strike occurs as the organization’s employees demand the stability of the union. In an attempt to resolve the issues, Justice Ivan Rand urges a formula to “check-off dues” from employee paycheques to invest in the union, regarding finances and its activities. The fifties include the creation of the Canadian Labor Congress 1956 and the New Democratic Party. The sixties introduce

Canada has a long history of labour education. The main themes in the history of Canadian labour education and how did the purposes and practices of Canadian labour education change during the 20th century will be discussed throughout this assignment.

Follow WW1 soldiers would return home to a lack of jobs, high prices on basic necessities, and low minimum wage. This struck a fire within the people which started the movement for modern labour, along with the birth of the union. With no sign of change within the horrendous conditions following the war,the people rose up in search of a resolution. One of the driving factors was the Winnipeg General Strike which brought over 30,000 workers to leave the workplace, leaving Winnipeg in a standstill, sending an abrupt wake up call to the government to take action. Following these events is what shaped Canada into the working environment that it is today, with unions being put into place and a higher workplace standard being set, this one event brings change to the social, political and economic stature of

The issues and events examined in these two essays provide a fair and thoughtful discussion of processes that have led to diminished workplace rights among the women and migrant and immigrant workers in Canada. The decisive role in the development of long-term strategies as wage solidarity, the operation

On Thursday, 10/22/2015 the claimant stated he reported for work pain-free and was not suffering from any pain or discomfort from four other work related injuries that he reported as claims and received judgments. The claimant was unable to account for the real dates of his past work-related injuries that occurred between 2010 and 1/2013. The claimants past industrial-related injuries ranged from a left wrist injury, head injury and two separate right wrist injuries which he says did not include any injury to any other body parts.

Tammie, you made some great points during your post for this week and I really enjoyed reading how you put the assignment into perspective. I took one point that stood out the most to me and that was when you stated “While doing so, workmen compensation laws also provide that whatever compensation is recovered through such laws shall extinguish all claims in tort or contract arising from the injury caused (Pandey & Pandey, 2008). Tammie, it also is great to have a portion of the history of how workman’s compensation was started. The first workman’s compensation law was passed by the New York State in 1910. The compensation laws grew because of the large amount of compensation cases, because of a sharp increase of industrial accidents (Wood,

After the confederation, Canada went through numerous progressions; some were positively effective but some were negatively influenced the working-class citizens. Every people in different societal strata have its own way of surviving. Paige Railbmon explains the Aboriginal people’s lives, Bettina Bradbury describes non-wage based workers’ surviving strategies, and Craig Heron introduces the union labors’ lives. In this paper, I analyzed my assessment of these three articles and some evoked questions.

Canada a nation with some of the richest histories in the world, some more intriguing than others whether it be its contribution during the second world war, or more importantly its fight within its self in seeking for equality and justice for it people. Similar is the case for labor the fight and struggle that was encountered by thousands in the early years of 1800’s till present. There were plentiful struggles made including ending child labor, the workers compensation, fight for being unionized in order to survive the brutality of the capitalists. In this paper I will explore the history of the minimum wage globally and the acts used to enact it in Canada with relevance to current economic conditions. Minimum wage is defined as “the minimum

-If workers become injured, don’t make a living wage, are pushed into criminal activities through blackmail or a factory owners’ mistreatment, it is seen as the workers fault.

Workers’ Compensation Boards (WCBs) exist across Canada. For the most part, they’re provincially mandated so as to comply with different provincial legislation regarding employment. Ontario, for example, has different laws around employment and workers’ compensation than Alberta. BC and Quebec’s rules are also different.

With little or no Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) legislative guidelines in place, the death and neglect of thousands of foreign workers in the 1880’s during the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway was disheartening. These deaths must have sparked some interest in the legal world because more than 30yrs after

With globalization,many changes have been brought up in the workplaces that are leading towards more flexibility and enrollment of the employees (Tong Fay and Anil Verma,2002). “According to a survey -unionized workers across Canada earned$5- 28/hour more than non-union workers; Women with unions earned more too and got paid more fairly (Why unions? ,2015)”. Thus ,it gives us an idea what changes are being brought about by the unions in comparison to non-union when it comes to the wage sector. The union workplaces give a chance to the members to bargain for their benefits which includes not only social well being but also the say,the right to speak up about their own views therefore giving them the chance to talk about their problems. The union have been progressed to give a fair wage