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Protecting Workers on the Job
This casebook covers statutes and regulations that provide direct protection from health and safety hazards for workers, the rights of workers within workplaces to raise concerns and protect themselves against these risks, and the legal protections for workers who are injured or made ill by their work.
This course is about occupational safety and health: the ways in which work causes or exacerbates disease and injury, and the ways in which law responds. It is a course in administrative law, a public health course, and an employment law course – all rolled into one. In the first half of the course, we will focus on regulatory intervention: how the government, through law, regulates the behavior of employers. In essence, this takes our focus to the relationship between the administrative regulatory bodies and employers. In the second half of the course, we will look at the issues as an employment law issue. Here, our focus will be more on the relationship between employers and employees – though regulatory intervention will continue to be relevant.
Note that a Glossary of abbreviations is included in Chapter 1.
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