Management and Organizational Studies 2275A/B Chapter 20: The Employment Relationship

• School: Western University
• Department: Management and Organizational Studies
• Course: Management and Organizational Studies 2275A/B
• Professor: Philip King

Document Summary

Focuses on laws that affect the employment process in the private non-unionized sector. Banking, airline, broadcasting, railway and shipping industries: the provincial governments have jurisdiction to make laws that affect all other employees, including provincial employees. Employment relationship : a contractual relationship whereby an employer provides remuneration to an employee in exchange for work or services. Independent contractor : a person who is in a working relationship that does not meet the criteria of employment. Usually doctors and lawyers provide services in the capacity of independent contractors rather than as employees of their patients/clients. Dependent contractor : a person who is an independent contractor but has a relationship of economic dependency with the employer as a result of working exclusively or nearly exclusively for the employer for a long period. In the traditional workplace, most workers were employees, but in the modern workplace various working arrangements have evolved.