WDW101Y1 Chapter Notes -Job Satisfaction, Employment Contract, Productive Efficiency
7 Nov 2012
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The individual employment contract and employment legislation in canada. Concerned with the laws governing job regulation between the individual employee and his or her employer in the nonunion sector. Two cornerstones: 1) the common law contract of employment 2) protective employment legislation such as labour standards acts etc. 1) general principles of contract----common-law contract (ensure that markets operate relatively freely according to the economic laws of supply and demand) Pros: suitable for commodities cons: ill fits the matter of human beings. The principles of contract law will enable employers to exploit their bargaining superiority to the economic and psychological detriment of their employees. Continual refashioning of the legal rules reflect the changing standards of personnel management practice and changing social societal views on how work relations should be organized. 19th and 20th centuries---- favoring the employer"s interests. Now---- emphasizing the importance of protecting the employee (more vulnerable)
