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Employees' perception of employers' response after workplace injuryUnknown Date (has links)
The purpose of this study was to (a) explore the lived experiences of school district employees who have sustained on-the-job injuries with specific attention to employee perceptions of employer response after injury and (b) examine whether purposeful empathetic response from the employer after workplace injury was related to changes in employee perceptions of employer response. This study included both qualitative and quantitative methods. In Phase 1, the sample for the interviews included nine workers from a large school district in South Florida who had active injury claims within two years before the study began. The Phase 1 findings were that the level of assistance and type of support received after reporting an injury varied among participants, despite working for the same employer; that the perceived response from the employer was more influential in affecting the participants' experience of workplace injury than participants' perception of the response of their coworkers; t hat the reaction from a majority of the school district employees (6 of 9) who were injured at work mirrored perceived employer response; and that more than half of the nine participants had unmet expectations of their employer with respect to how they were treated after experiencing workplace injury. In Phase 2, the 91 subjects that participated in the organizational response survey (See Appendix E and Appendix F) were employees from the same school district who were injured during an eight-week period. Data from three subscales (organizational support, return-to-work policies, and post-injury job satisfaction) on the survey instrument were compared between two groups. / An experimental group received purposeful empathetic response from both the employer at the local school or department level as well as contact from the employer's Risk Management department. Analysis of variance was used to compare responses of the groups. A Bonferroni adjustment of .05/3 or .017 was applied: the result was non-significant. This finding suggests that purposeful, empathetic contact alone was not enough to significantly affect the participants' scores. / by Nancy S. Patrick. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2010? / Includes bibliography. / Electronic reproduction. Boca Raton, Fla., 2010. Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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Evaluation of service delivery in the office of the compensation fund, PretoriaMohapi, Mmatsie Dorah. January 2012 (has links)
Thesis (MTech. degree in Local Government.)--Tshwane University of Technology, 2012. / The point of departure of this study is to evaluate service delivery in the Office of the Compensation Fund. The year 1994 ushered in a new era for South Africa. Since then, the South African Public Service has gone through a process of transformation. The introduction of new legislation regarding service delivery and transformation changed the manner in which the South African Public Service functioned. The main task of those in power is to transform the lives of all South Africans and this could be achieved by improving service delivery. Service delivery improvements have characterised government institutions and have not left the Compensation Fund behind. The primary objective of this research is to suggest ways of evaluating improved service delivery in the Office of the Compensation Fund.
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The impact of royal commissions on public policy : worker’s compensation in British Columbia, 1941-1968Chaklader, Anjan K. 05 1900 (has links)
During the years 1941 to 1968, issues relating to workers’ compensation in British
Columbia were subjected to the unprecedented number of three royal commissions. An
explanatory framework that evaluates the merits of the commissions and their
recommendations, both perceived and otherwise, and the degree to which governments
adopted the recommendations, is presented in this paper. The framework is designed to
make use of the available relevant primary sources, particularly minutes of the commission
proceedings, newspaper accounts and legislative statutes.
All three of the Commissions were thorough, well-received exercises whose
recommendations were almost wholly adopted by B.C. governments, though in differing
time frames. The need for the second Commission, which was created a mere six years
after the finish of the first, primarily arose because of rapid developments in the B.C.
labour movement during the mid-1940’s. An infusion of leaders with communist ties
caused it to harden demands for workers’ compensation benefits and reforms. The first
Commission had been considered a success by all parties, but the context of its
recommendations had changed due to the increase in labour’s militancy. This second
Commission was also considered to be reasonably successful. However, dissatisfaction
with a Workmen’s Compensation Board that had completely turned over shortly after the
second Commission, led to demands, particularly by labour, to create another commission
to review its work and procedures. Board members, at that time, were subject to long
tenures and were without any formal mechanism with which to be reviewed.
Critical to the success of the three Commissions was the independent, non-partisan
nature of their proceedings and recommendations. Because of this, the credibility accorded to the recommendations, particularly by labour, caused the Commissions to supercede the
traditional mode of cabinet or legislative committtee deliberation for public policy
formation in this case. The series of Commissions ended because of satisfaction with the
Workmen’s Compensation Act, a much higher turnover rate of the Board and increased
strength of the provincial labour-backed New Democratic Party. Thus, the Commissions
and the three B.C. Supreme Court Justices that served as the Commissioners, must go
down in history has having played a significant role in the evolution of occupational safety
and health policy in British Columbia.
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What is the price of 80 kg's : the failure of the detection of, and compensation for, asbestos-related disease : social exclusion in Sekhukhuneland.Roberts, Jaine. January 2000 (has links)
Abstract not available. / Thesis (M.Dev.Studies)-University of Natal, Durban, 2000.
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An analysis of the current lawfulness of South African renumeration practices and a critical assessment of the impact of proposed legislation.Fynn, Frances Elizabeth Anne. January 1996 (has links)
No abstract available. / Thesis (LL.M)-University of Natal, Durban, 1996.
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The impact of royal commissions on public policy : worker’s compensation in British Columbia, 1941-1968Chaklader, Anjan K. 05 1900 (has links)
During the years 1941 to 1968, issues relating to workers’ compensation in British
Columbia were subjected to the unprecedented number of three royal commissions. An
explanatory framework that evaluates the merits of the commissions and their
recommendations, both perceived and otherwise, and the degree to which governments
adopted the recommendations, is presented in this paper. The framework is designed to
make use of the available relevant primary sources, particularly minutes of the commission
proceedings, newspaper accounts and legislative statutes.
All three of the Commissions were thorough, well-received exercises whose
recommendations were almost wholly adopted by B.C. governments, though in differing
time frames. The need for the second Commission, which was created a mere six years
after the finish of the first, primarily arose because of rapid developments in the B.C.
labour movement during the mid-1940’s. An infusion of leaders with communist ties
caused it to harden demands for workers’ compensation benefits and reforms. The first
Commission had been considered a success by all parties, but the context of its
recommendations had changed due to the increase in labour’s militancy. This second
Commission was also considered to be reasonably successful. However, dissatisfaction
with a Workmen’s Compensation Board that had completely turned over shortly after the
second Commission, led to demands, particularly by labour, to create another commission
to review its work and procedures. Board members, at that time, were subject to long
tenures and were without any formal mechanism with which to be reviewed.
Critical to the success of the three Commissions was the independent, non-partisan
nature of their proceedings and recommendations. Because of this, the credibility accorded to the recommendations, particularly by labour, caused the Commissions to supercede the
traditional mode of cabinet or legislative committtee deliberation for public policy
formation in this case. The series of Commissions ended because of satisfaction with the
Workmen’s Compensation Act, a much higher turnover rate of the Board and increased
strength of the provincial labour-backed New Democratic Party. Thus, the Commissions
and the three B.C. Supreme Court Justices that served as the Commissioners, must go
down in history has having played a significant role in the evolution of occupational safety
and health policy in British Columbia. / Arts, Faculty of / History, Department of / Graduate
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Crisis of Control: Occupational Health and Safety and Workers' Compensation in the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program (SAWP) and the Agricultural Stream of the Temporary Foreign Workers Program (TFWP) / Crisis of Control: OHS and Workers' Compensation in Canada's Migrant Agricultural Workers' ProgramsAversa, Theresa 11 1900 (has links)
While agricultural work is hazardous for all workers, migrant workers face additional challenges that make them more vulnerable than domestic workers. The lack of access to permanent immigration status in the Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program (SAWP) and the agricultural stream of the Temporary Foreign Workers Program (TFWP) makes workers’ jobs hinge on retaining their employers’ favour and creates a particular type of job insecurity that overshadows their behaviour, decisions, and agency to assert their rights for safe and healthy workplaces and workers’ compensation. While researchers argue that the TFWP competes with the SAWP as employers search for the cheapest and most docile workers, less research has examined whether workers’ health and safety exposures and experiences differ within the two programs. Drawing primarily from interviews with advocates and system stakeholders and participant observation at advocate-organized events, this research will offer preliminary answers to discovering whether the programs pose different obstacles to improving health and safety and access to compensation that affect migrant workers’ experiences in Ontario before and after injury. The research will help gather information about possible avenues to improve the health and safety of migrant workers given how the two programs operate within both federal and provincial frameworks. Advocates’ experience assisting workers in both programs offers important insights about whether differences between the programs create particular vulnerabilities for some migrant workers. / Thesis / Master of Arts (MA) / This research identifies opportunities and barriers that migrant agricultural workers and their advocates face in improving occupational health and safety and access to workers' compensation in the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program (SAWP) and the agricultural stream of the Temporary Foreign Workers Program (TFWP). Through semi-structured interviews, participant observation, and document review, the research will help identify whether interplay between the programs causes additional vulnerabilities for some workers. The research will help gather information about possible avenues to improve the health and safety of migrant workers given how the two programs operate in a federal and provincial framework.
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An Investigation into Type, Severity, and Cost of Injuries in the Automotive Repair Sector: Overall and by AgeAdkins, Ecstasy D. January 2014 (has links)
No description available.
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Trouble in our Fields: Health and Human Rights among Mexican and Caribbean Migrant Farm Workers in CanadaMcLaughlin, Janet Elizabeth 13 April 2010 (has links)
For many years Canada has quietly rationalized importing temporary “low-skilled” migrant labour through managed migration programs to appease industries desiring cheap and flexible labour while avoiding extending citizenship rights to the workers. In an era of international human rights and global competitive markets, the Canadian Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program (SAWP) is often hailed as a “model” and “win-win” solution to migration and labour dilemmas, providing employers with a healthy, just-in-time labour force and workers with various protections such as local labour standards, health care, and compensation.
Tracing migrant workers’ lives between Jamaica, Mexico and Canada (with a focus on Ontario’s Niagara Region), this thesis assesses how their structural vulnerability as non-citizens effectively excludes them from many of the rights and norms otherwise expected in Canada. It analyzes how these exclusions are rationalized as permanent “exceptions” to the normal legal, social and political order, and how these infringements affect workers’ lives, rights, and health. Employing critical medical anthropology, workers’ health concerns are used as a lens through which to understand and explore the deeper “pathologies of power” and moral contradictions which underlie this system. Particular areas of focus include workers’ occupational, sexual and reproductive, and mental and emotional health, as well as an assessment of their access to health care and compensation in Canada, Mexico and Jamaica.
Working amidst perilous and demanding conditions, in communities where they remain socially and politically excluded, migrant workers in practice remain largely unprotected and their entitlements hard to secure, an enduring indictment of their exclusion from Canada’s “imagined community.” Yet the dynamics of this equation may be changing in light of the recent rise in social and political movements, in which citizenship and related rights have become subject to contestation and redefinition. In analyzing the various dynamics which underlie transnational migration, limit or extend migrants’ rights, and influence the health of migrants across borders, this thesis explores crucial relationships between these themes. Further work is needed to measure these ongoing changes, and to address the myriad health concerns of migrants as they live and work across national borders.
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Trouble in our Fields: Health and Human Rights among Mexican and Caribbean Migrant Farm Workers in CanadaMcLaughlin, Janet Elizabeth 13 April 2010 (has links)
For many years Canada has quietly rationalized importing temporary “low-skilled” migrant labour through managed migration programs to appease industries desiring cheap and flexible labour while avoiding extending citizenship rights to the workers. In an era of international human rights and global competitive markets, the Canadian Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program (SAWP) is often hailed as a “model” and “win-win” solution to migration and labour dilemmas, providing employers with a healthy, just-in-time labour force and workers with various protections such as local labour standards, health care, and compensation.
Tracing migrant workers’ lives between Jamaica, Mexico and Canada (with a focus on Ontario’s Niagara Region), this thesis assesses how their structural vulnerability as non-citizens effectively excludes them from many of the rights and norms otherwise expected in Canada. It analyzes how these exclusions are rationalized as permanent “exceptions” to the normal legal, social and political order, and how these infringements affect workers’ lives, rights, and health. Employing critical medical anthropology, workers’ health concerns are used as a lens through which to understand and explore the deeper “pathologies of power” and moral contradictions which underlie this system. Particular areas of focus include workers’ occupational, sexual and reproductive, and mental and emotional health, as well as an assessment of their access to health care and compensation in Canada, Mexico and Jamaica.
Working amidst perilous and demanding conditions, in communities where they remain socially and politically excluded, migrant workers in practice remain largely unprotected and their entitlements hard to secure, an enduring indictment of their exclusion from Canada’s “imagined community.” Yet the dynamics of this equation may be changing in light of the recent rise in social and political movements, in which citizenship and related rights have become subject to contestation and redefinition. In analyzing the various dynamics which underlie transnational migration, limit or extend migrants’ rights, and influence the health of migrants across borders, this thesis explores crucial relationships between these themes. Further work is needed to measure these ongoing changes, and to address the myriad health concerns of migrants as they live and work across national borders.
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