HLTA02H3 Chapter 20: Chapter 20 - notes for final exam

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Introduction: more people are injured and killed at work annually than on roads and, according to canadian government reports, 3 workers killed on the job highways every day. Canadian workplaces are first in workplace deaths amongst all advanced industrial/post industrial economies. Cost directly related to occupational injury totalled . 65 billion: the destruction of labour power (9. 3b if indirect costs included, in 19th century english society women and children began to be employed. They worked just as hard and long as men but received less wages. Workers formed craft unions to protect the integrity of their jobs and as vehicles of cultural and political power: 1915 ontario workmen"s compensation act. Workers were now assured of some financial compensation if they were injured on the job. Right to know the substances they worked with. The right to participate in maintaining and improving the safety and health conditions of their workplaces. Least likely people to be injured were in management.

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Suppose that the way that the workersâ compensation system currently works is that an employee permanently injured on the job receives a payment of $X a year each year, regardless of whether he works or not. Suppose the government implements a reform of the program in which those permanently injured workers who did not work at all get a payment of $X/2 a year and those that do work receive a payment of $X/2 per year plus an additional payment of $1.00 an hour for each hour they do work (above and beyond the wage that their employers pay them). Would hours of work for permanently injured workers likely increase or decrease under the reformed program? In answering this question assume that all permanently injured workers can earn a wage of $W an hour.

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1. Critically evaluate each of these statements:

a. "The relative decline of the American Labor movement can be explained by the shift from good-producing to service-providing industries and by the closely related shifts from blue- to white-collar occupations and from male to female employees."

b. "The success of unions in raising their wages relative to nonunion workers has contributed to the decline of unionism."

c. " Unionized firms have tended to become less profitable and, therefore, employers are more resistant to unionization."

2. Comment on each of the following statements:

a. "Unions tie the hands of management and inhibit efficient decision making."

b. "Unions contribute to economic efficiency in that union wage pressure hastens the weeding out of the high-cost, least efficient producers in each industry."

c. "Although unions may reduce wage inequality, to the extent that they reduce wage differentials based on individual merit and effort, the outcome may be rightly perceived as both inequitable and inefficient."

d. "Unions impair the efficiency of our economy indirectly by diminishing profits and thereby reducing investment and economic expansion."

3. Speculate about the reason(s) for each of the following facts about public sector pay:

a. The pay premium received by federal employees declined in the middle and late 1980s.

b. Local governments tend to pay less skilled workers more, and more skilled workers less, than comparably trained and experienced private-sector workers.

c. Female and African-American workers in government receive higher pay on average than their equally qualified counterparts in the private sector.

4. Evaluate this statement: "Profit-maximizing firms lack an incentive to provide job safety, and consequently, the federal government must intervene legislatively to protect workers against the unsafe working conditions that will surely result."

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Canada.Payroll

Each jurisdiction outlines late filing penalties for the annualstatement of payroll for workersâ compensation.

Your organization operates in Saskatchewan. You filed yourannual Employer Payroll Statement on March 30th of the current year(see Current Year calendar in the course material). The totalassessable earnings for the previous year were $925,188.15. Theassessment rate per $100 for your organization is $1.41.

During the first week of March, two of your employees were injuredat work.

Calculate the late filing penalty for missing the filing deadlineand explain any possible additional costs to the employer relatedto this oversight.

What process will you put in place for next year to avoid thisissue?

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