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Labour Relations and the 1990’s Employment Regimes in Canada and Brazil
Get PDFIn an environment of global economic competition, corporations and the state have focused their strategies of competitive adjustment on labour flexibility and deregulation and reductions in social expenditures. In many countries, these policies led to the abandonment of full employment and increases in precarious or non-regulated employment. This article analyzes the main political and institutional elements of labour within Canada and Brazil, as well as recent changes in their employment regimes and labour market structures. Key research findings show us that greater labour market flexibility in both countries resulted in a reduction of labour rights that has contributed to the precariousness of work, increasing inequality in Canada, and higher levels of underemployment and poverty in Brazil
Les syndicats en négociation : allocution prononcée dans le cadre de la Conférence sur le progrès de l’équité
Get PDFDisability Disclosure in the Workplace
Get PDFThis paper is concerned with workplace accommodation and the extent to which people feel able to disclose disabilities at work. Disclosure is central to accommodation in the sense that workers must feel comfortable describing their needs to employers. Where this is not the case - for example, where workers are concerned about the precariousness of their position and the fact that disclosure may result in dismissal - legal requirements for accommodation can be ineffective. To explore this issue, the paper uses qualitative data from interviews with fifty-nine people with physical, learning, psychiatric and sensory disabilities in the Hamilton labour market. Analysis indicates that most respondents viewed disclosure as a risky endeavour, and a significant minority did not disclose due to concerns about not being hired or being dismissed. The conclusion discusses the need for accommodating workplaces and the implications for the labour movement
Guest Editors’ Précis to the Special Section of Just Labour: Advancing the Equity Agenda Inside Unions and at the Bargaining Table
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Cynthia J. Cranford, Judy Fudge, Eric Tucker, and Leah F. Vosko. (2005). Self-Employed Workers Organize: Law, Policy and Unions. Montreal: McGill- Queen’s University Press. 247 pages.
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