Author: Law Commission of OntarioPublisher:
ISBN: 9781926661223
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Vulnerable Workers and Precarious Work : Consultation Paper
Author: Law Commission of OntarioPublisher:
ISBN: 9781926661223
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Vulnerable Workers and Precarious Working
Author: Anthony ForsythPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443851078
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
The papers presented here originated at a wonderful conference held at Middlesex University in London attended by experts on the subject of vulnerable workers and precarious work from all over the world. The aim here is to examine different aspects of these topics, showing the need for developing further research in connection with these areas of study.
Vulnerable Workers and Precarious Work
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Job security
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"The Report includes 47 recommendations designed to respond to the challenges faced by vulnerable workers to reduce their vulnerability to or the impacts of precarious work which extend to their health, family relationships and other areas of life beyond the workplace. The Project focuses, in particular, on improvements to the statutory and policy framework of the Employment Standards Act and the Occupational Health and Safety Act in protecting these workers. However, it also reviews and makes recommendations about existing community and government supports and programs for workers, employers and for training and education, as well as the role of labour organizations."--Publisher's press release.
Labour Law, Vulnerability and the Regulation of Precarious Work
Author: Lisa RodgersPublisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 1784715751
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
The shifting nature of employment practice towards the use of more precarious work forms has caused a crisis in classical labour law and engendered a new wave of regulation. This timely book deftly uses this crisis as an opportunity to explore the notion of precariousness or vulnerability in employment relationships. Arguing that the idea of vulnerability has been under-theorised in the labour law literature, Lisa Rodgers illustrates how this extends to the design of regulation for precarious work. The book’s logical structure situates vulnerability in its developmental context before moving on to examine the goals of the regulation of labour law for vulnerability, its current status in the law and case studies of vulnerability such as temporary agency work and domestic work. These threads are astutely drawn together to show the need for a shift in focus towards workers as ‘vulnerable subjects’ in all their complexity in order to better inform labour law policy and practice more generally. Constructively critical, Labour Law, Vulnerability and the Regulation of Precarious Work will prove invaluable to students and scholars of labour and employment law at local, EU and international levels. With its challenge to orthodox thinking and proposals for the improvement of the regulation of labour law, labour law institutions will also find this book of great interest and value.
Vulnerable Workers
Author: Malcolm SargeantPublisher:
ISBN: 9781315547831
Category : Industrial hygiene
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Diverse Perspectives on Aging in a Changing World
Author: Gillian JosephPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1317270878
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
Focusing on under-researched aspects of social, economic and political change, this volume offers fresh insights into aging, older people and their families. It combines an international and interdisciplinary approach. Chapters explore the contexts in which family roles, institutional practices, public policies and social and cultural discourses evolve, connecting analyses of aging issues and policy development with sound research practices, as well as previously-ignored gaps in professional practice. Topics covered include politics and policy, health and social care, culture and migration, urban and rural sociology, gender studies, technology and economics. The book will be of particular interest to students and researchers in gerontology, community development, geography and population studies, along with researchers and professionals in physiotherapy, nursing and social work.
Building a Stronger Foundation of Basic Workplace Rights for BC Workers
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Context of the BC Law Institute review of employment standards The last independent review of BC's employment standards legislation - the laws that set out basic workplace rights and protections for workers in the province - was the Thompson Page 3 | Response to the BC Law Institute Consultation Paper on the Employment Standards Act [...] The study documented in detail the harmful impacts of precarious employment on the health and well-being of the affected workers and their families, and the costs that precarious work imposes on society more broadly.8 The researchers found that workers from racialized communities and, in particular racialized women, were disproportionately affected by precarious work. [...] The Review was unique in Canada in that it was mandated to specifically address the challenges of precarious and vulnerable workers and to examine both employment standards and the labour code. [...] The key enforcement bodies for provincial workplace rights, the Employment Standards Branch of the Ministry of Labour and the Labour Relations Board have been underfunded to a point where they cannot adequately administer and enforce the law.10 This tilts the playing field too far in favour of the employer and severely undermines access to justice for vulnerable workers. [...] Extend the basic workplace rights embedded in Employment Standards legislation more broadly 1. EXPAND THE DEFINITION OF EMPLOYMENT TO REFLECT EMERGING LABOUR MARKET TRENDS The BC Law Institute report makes a passing reference to the profound transformations that technology has made in the workplace, "leading to decentralization, the emergence of telecommuting, and the "gig economy," in which widel.
Vulnerable Workers
Author: Dr Maria GiovannonePublisher: Gower Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 1409460436
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
The leading academic authorities contributing to this book have been involved in major studies carried out for international organisations, individual governments, and national trades' union organisations; in Vulnerable Workers they consider the growth of job insecurity, the prevalence of flexible or temporary work, and the emergence of precarious forms of self-employment. They look at the new market economies of post-communist Eastern Europe and China, where economic development may occur at the expense of workers' lives and health; 'misclassification' by employers of workers as 'contractors', denying them access to rights; and the plight of migrant, transient and 'invisible' workers. The impact of supply chain business strategies on the most vulnerable workers; and on the complex relationships between levels of job security and the presence of different kinds of risks are similarly assessed. The contributors also propose responses to the challenges they highlight. The role of employee representatives is examined, together with the potential to enhance worker capability through organisational change. New legislative approaches, and changes to traditional compensation and social security systems are considered. Academics and researchers, policy makers, regulators, trades unionists and occupational health professionals - and wise employers - will all find a use for this book.
Special Issue: Vulnerable Workers, Precarious Work and the Role of HRM
Author: Vulnerable Workers
Author: Maria GiovannonePublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 131700082X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
The leading academic authorities contributing to this book have been involved in major studies carried out for international organisations, individual governments, and national trades' union organisations; in Vulnerable Workers they consider the growth of job insecurity, the prevalence of flexible or temporary work, and the emergence of precarious forms of self-employment. They look at the new market economies of post-communist Eastern Europe and China, where economic development may occur at the expense of workers' lives and health; 'misclassification' by employers of workers as 'contractors', denying them access to rights; and the plight of migrant, transient and 'invisible' workers. The impact of supply chain business strategies on the most vulnerable workers; and on the complex relationships between levels of job security and the presence of different kinds of risks are similarly assessed. The contributors also propose responses to the challenges they highlight. The role of employee representatives is examined, together with the potential to enhance worker capability through organisational change. New legislative approaches, and changes to traditional compensation and social security systems are considered. Academics and researchers, policy makers, regulators, trades unionists and occupational health professionals - and wise employers - will all find a use for this book.