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:: Thursday, September 18, 2003 ::
Come in sick, win a prize A BC health authority is offering workers a chance to win $300 if they don't call in sick for six months.
British Columbia: Liberals let poorest workers suffer By Adrian Dix
This past May, the government introduced changes to the Employment Standards Act that reduced protection for farm workers. The changes excluded farm workers from the hours of work, overtime and statutory holiday pay provisions of the act. Further, changes to make the use of child labour easier — particularly in the agricultural sector — were also introduced and passed.
Indeed, the employment standards changes had a distinctly 19th-century dimension to them. Mark Thompson, a UBC commerce professor and B.C.'s foremost expert in employment standards law asks, “Why do we need the 12-hour day in the 21st century? Labour was fighting for the eight-hour day at the turn of the 20th century.”------------------------------------------- posted 6:48 AM :: reference link ::
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