BUS 018 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Workplace Harassment, Chief Operating Officer, Canada Revenue Agency

• School: College of The Sequoias
• Department: Business (BUS)
• Course: BUS 018
• Professor: Baiza

Document Summary

Then some time about relative obligations with employee and employer. Union situation, how unions negotiate on behalf of their members. Historically was called the law of master and servant. 75-85 years ago, being an employee and especially in a mining town, it was dangerous, dirty and wages were starvation wages with workers being exploited. Courts didn"t both to change the way things were, the reason was because of freedom of contract workers volunteered to work for these companies because they had to much more power and authority for the employers. Doesn"t always work when grossly uneven bargaining power. Doesn"t always work when only one employer to work for (mining in old days) Freedom of contract is not appropriate in these situations this is a problem for the courts. Since then the work place has changed dramatically. Once we had a middle class, people now had disposable income and this helped influence and change on government and courts.