EMPR 240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Vocational Rehabilitation, Historic Compromise, Contributory Negligence

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Empr 240 labour policy, february 6 , 2017. History of worker" compensation: prior to workers" compensation programs, workers could sue their employer for compensation due to workplace injury. Difficult cases for workers to win due to the unholy trinity legal defenses. Fellow servant doctrine: employer isn"t entirely to blame if a coworker hurt you. Voluntary assumption of risk: placed the cost of workplace injury on the workers and their families, charities and the government, in 1913, ontario established a royal commission, headed by sir william. Meredith to investigate workplace injury: the final report set out these five principles: Gov"t agency has sole jurisdiction over claims and makes the final decision: ontario implemented a workers" compensation program based on the principles shortly thereafter. Other provinces followed, forms the basis of today"s wc programs (~80% of workers covered: this system of workers" compensation referred to as the historic compromise . Components of workers" comp: no-fault system.

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