Eroding Worker Protections: BC's New 'Flexible' Employment Standards

Eroding Worker Protections: BC's New 'Flexible' Employment Standards
Author: David Fairey
Publisher: Canadian Centre Policy Alternatives
Total Pages: 50
Release: 2005
Genre: Labor laws and legislation
ISBN: 0886274559

Key Findings Sweeping reductions and changes to the enforcement program in BC have had a serious and negative impact on the ability of workers to become aware of their rights in the workplace, to complain of violations of their rights, and to obtain fair treatment in the process of pursuing complaints and having their complaints adequately investigated. [...] In November of that year, the newly-elected provincial government embarked upon a series of substantive changes to the Employment Standards Act, regulations under the Act, and the system of administration and enforcement of the Act. [...] For example, the stated goals of the new legislation were, allegedly, to: • protect vulnerable employees, particularly those in certain sectors; • encourage flexible workplace partnerships; • help revitalize the economy, specifically small business, by recognizing the needs and the realities of the workplace; and • simplify the rules.13 The goal of protecting vulnerable workers is restated in the [...] The Act was substantially restructured in 1995 following recommendations of the first and only compre- hensive independent review of the Act in 1994 by Commissioner Mark Thompson of the University of British Columbia's faculty of Commerce and Business Administration.16 14 Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives - BC Office Regulation The Employment Standard Regulation17 is that part of the law whi [...] Administration and Enforcement Administration of the Act, and the policing and enforcement of its provisions and regulations, is the responsibility of the Minister of Labour and Citizens' Services through the Director of the Employment Standards Branch and her/his staff.

Precarious Employment

Precarious Employment
Author: Leah F. Vosko
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Total Pages: 508
Release: 2006
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780773529618

'Precarious Employment' explores the nature and dynamics of precarious employment in contemporary Canada.

Criminality at Work

Criminality at Work
Author: Alan Bogg
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 593
Release: 2020-03-12
Genre: Law
ISBN: 019257387X

From the Master and Servant legislation to the Factories Acts of the 19th century, the criminal law has always had a vital yet normatively complex role in the regulation of work relations. Even in its earliest forms, it operated both as a tool to repress collective organizations and enforce labour discipline, while policing the worst excesses of industrial capitalism. Recently, governments have begun to rediscover criminal law as a regulatory tool in a diverse set of areas related to labour law: 'modern slavery', penalizing irregular migrants, licensing regimes for labour market intermediaries, wage theft, supporting the enforcement of general labour standards, new forms of hybrid preventive orders, harassment at work, and industrial protest. This volume explores the political and regulatory dimensions of the new 'criminality at work' from a wide range of disciplinary perspectives, including labour law, immigration law, and health and safety regulations. The volume provides an overview of the regulatory terrain of 'criminality at work', exploring whether these different regulatory interventions represent politically legitimate uses of the criminal law. The book also examines whether these recent interventions constitute a new pattern of criminalization that operates in preventive mode and is based upon character and risk-based forms of culpability. The volume concludes by reflecting upon the general themes of 'criminality at work' comparatively, from Australian, Canadian, and US perspectives. Criminality at Work is a timely, rich and ambitious piece of scholarship that examines the many intersections between criminal law and work relations from a historical and contemporary vantage-point.

Doing Business in 2004

Doing Business in 2004
Author: Simeon Djankov
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2004
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780821353417

A co-publication of the World Bank, International Finance Corporation and Oxford University Press

Violence at Work

Violence at Work
Author: Duncan Chappell
Publisher: International Labour Organization
Total Pages: 390
Release: 2006
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9789221179481

Violence at work, ranging from bullying and mobbing, to threats by psychologically unstable co-workers, sexual harassment and homicide, is increasing worldwide and has reached epidemic levels in some countries. This updated and revised edition looks at the full range of aggressive acts, offers new information on their occurrence and identifies occupations and situations at particular risk. It is organised in three sections: understanding violence at work; responding to violence at work; future action.