ADMS 3420 Chapter Notes - Chapter 22: Factory Acts, Canada Day, Civic Holiday
28 Jan 2017
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The neoclassical perspective argues that ees and ers should negotiate hours, vacation. We still see a master-servant relationship when it comes to regulating working time; er has control over regulating working hours. A very brief history of working time laws in canada. Just like the story of employment regulation in canada, hours of work regulation were also improved through union bargaining. They first bargained for reduced hours, vacations, leaves, and paid holidays into their collective agreements, and then, eventually, governments enacted hours of work legislation of more general application. Ees worked 12-16 hours a day, sometimes 7 days a week. They pressured the government for 10-hour workdays, and in the 19th century, union-led nine-hour. Leagues formed to pressure employers and governments to introduce a nine-hour workday. Nine-hour league: organizations active in the late 19th century that attempted to pressure and persuade employers and governments to implement a mandatory maximum nine-hour workday.
