BU354 Chapter Notes -Fide, Protected Group, Sexual Coercion
Document Summary
Objective for most employment legislation is to prevent employers from exploiting paid workers, assuming that an implicit power imbalance exists in the employment relationship. Government role is to balance employee and employer needs through the development and maintenance of employment legislation: more receptive to governmental regulatory intervention than us. 2. us : employment at will : us: largely centralized. Hrm: occupational health and safety, union relations, pensions and compensation, contract law, tort law. Regulation: legally binding rules established by special regulatory bodies created to enforce compliance with the law and aid in its interpretation. The charter of rights and freedoms- federal law enacted in 1982 that guarantees fundamental freedoms to all canadians: freedom of conscience and religion, freedom of thought, belief, opinion, and expression, freedom of peaceful assembly, freedom of association. Equity right: section 15: guarantees the right to equal protection and benefit of the law without discrimination.
