Employee Benefits and the Part-time Worker: Legal and Economic Issues

Employee Benefits and the Part-time Worker: Legal and Economic Issues
ISBN-10
0888861710
ISBN-13
9780888861719
Category
Business & Economics / General
Pages
86
Language
English
Published
1987
Publisher
Industrial Relations Centre, Queen's University
Author
Robert Frederick Campling

Description

From the Abstract: This paper attempts to examine part-time employment from both a legal and economic perspective, looking at the extent of part-time employment, the compensation arrangements for part-time employees with particular emphasis on benefits other than wages, and the apparent inequities in these arrangements. The treatment of part-time workers under existing employment standards and collective bargaining legislation is reviewed and the potential impact of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms is examined. Finally, the actual cost of prorating benefits for part-time workers or paying cash in lieu of benefits is examined within the framework of the model developed in 1982 by Reid and Swartz. Overall, the available data seems to indicate that these costs are not overly excessive.

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