LABR 1F90 Lecture Notes - Kmart, Equal Protection Clause, Walmart Canada
6 Mar 2014
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Sector of the economy concerned with the provision, production, distribution and allocation of public goods and services. Services that government delivered: universities, hospitals, passport, police, prisons, janitors in universities. Also known as government-run or the state sector. 1 in 3 canadians work in the public sector. Everyone is dependent on a well-functioning, well-financed public sector. For public sector workers, this is the source of a decent and secure livelihood. For citizens, the public sector is the mechanism we use to collectively provide services - like health care and education - that are so fundamental to our well-being, regardless of our individual income levels. For employers, the public sector also provides things such as transportation infrastructure and workforce training make profit-making possible. They cant operate as a profit making business without the public sector. Administration work - administrating the work of the state. Believed the nature of public sector work ruled out collective bargaining.
