Workers' Compensation

• Author: John Eaton; Denis Le May
• Profession: Librarian & Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Manitoba/Avocat, Barreau du Québec, Conseiller à la documentation en droit (1975?2006) et Chargé de cours, Faculté de droit, Université Laval
• Pages: 105-105

WORKERS’ COMPENSATION / ACCIDENTS DU TRAVAIL ET MALADIES PROFESSIONELLES 105

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WORKERS’ COMPENSATION

Workers’ compensation schemes are in operation in every province in order to compensate

injured workers without the necessity of entering into civil litigation to sue for recompense.

Not only would litigation be diff‌icult for many workers, the common law would often fail to

recognize a head under which claimants could sue. This is an area of provincial jurisdiction

and there are workers’ compensation acts in all provinces (slightly different titles are used

in Newfoundland and Labrador and Ontario). Related topics: EMPLOYMENT LAW, INSUR-

ANCE LAW, LABOUR LAW, OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH & SAFETY, TORTS.

ACCIDENTS DU TRAVAIL ET MALADIES

PROFESSIONELLES

Ce domaine relève globalement de la sécurité sociale. Il touche le cas particulier des acci-

dents survenus sur les lieux ou à cause du travail. Les grands traités du TRAVAIL abordent ces

questions.

Bradet, Denis La Loi sur les accidents du travail et les maladies pro-

fessionnelles : aspects pratiques et juridiques, 6e éd.

Y Blais 2007

Ontario Bar

Asso ciat ion

Advanced Workers’ Compensation: New D irections

and Best Pract ices in Return to Work

Ontario Bar

Associat ion 2005

Dee, Garth, and

Nick Mc Combie

Workers’ Compensation in Ontario Hand book,

rev. ed.

LN/B 1999

Robin, Juliet S. “Workers’ Compensation” in vol. 34, title 151 of the

Canadian Encyclopedic Digest (Ontar io)

Crswl 1998

Ison, Terence G. Compensation Systems for Injur y and Disease: The

Policy Choices

LN/B 1994

Ison, Terence G. Workers’ Compensation in Canada, 2d ed. LN/B 1989