General Business BUS206 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Unemployment Benefits, Immigration Policy
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Government as part of the employment relationship. Effect of government on supply of & demand for workers. Indirectly affects labor demand through its purchases and financial policy decisions. Immigration policy and how rigorously it is enforced is an important factor in labor supply. Minimum age of employment standard hours of work and overtime pay equal pay for equal work by men and women. Based on charter of human rights and freedoms in canadian. Constitution equal treatment in employment and opportunity for employment regardless of race, colour, religion, sex . Pay equity issue relating to the gender wage gap gender wage gap is the amount by which the average pay for female workers is less than the average pay for male workers. Male/female average earnings ratios for full-time workers, 2000 2009. Differences in occupational attainment; women historically segregated in small number of occupations e. g. , sales, nursing.