Canadian Acts

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Workplace Safety and insurance act
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Purpose

1. The purpose of this Act is to accomplish the following in a financially responsible and accountable manner:

1. To promote health and safety in workplaces and to prevent and reduce the occurrence of workplace injuries and occupational diseases.

2. To facilitate the return to work and recovery of workers who sustain personal injury arising out of and in the course of employment or who suffer from an occupational disease.

3. To facilitate the re-entry into the labour market of workers and spouses of deceased workers.

4. To provide compensation and other benefits to workers and to the survivors of deceased workers. 1997, c. 16, Sched. A, s. 1; 1999, c. 6, s. 67 (1); 2005, c. 5, s. 73 (1).




Pay Equity
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Employee participation in pay equity implementation is an important characteristic of
most proactive pay equity legislation adopted in Canada.
Employee participation may occur at many stages,
ranging from the creation of a pay equity committee
to the posting of a pay equity plan's results.
Such participation is a means of ensuring an objective process
that complies with the legislation's primary aims.



Occupational safety and health
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The primary, and arguably most prominent reason for occupational safety and health (OSH)
standards are moral - an employee should not have to expect that by coming to work they are risking life or limb,
and nor should others affected by their undertaking.

OSH standards are, generally speaking, further reinforced in both civil law and criminal law; it is accepted that without the extra "encouragement" of potential litigation, many organisations would not act upon their implied moral obligations.


The final factor that favours OSH is economic - governments have long realised that
poor occupational safety and health performance results in cost to the State
(e.g. through social security payments to the incapacitated, medical costs for treatment,
but also through the loss of the "employability" of the worker), and organisations undergo a
number of costs in the event of an incident at work (such as legal fees, fines,
compensatory damages, investigation time, lost production,
lost goodwill from the workforce, lost goodwill from customers and the wider community).

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