Rights to Employment Under the Workers' Compensation Acts and Other Statutes

Abstract

The main focus of this article is on rights to continuing employment that have been or that may be legislated in Workers' Compensation Acts. For such "rights" to be seen in context,however, mention will also be made of the positions at common law and under other statutes. For many years, it has been suggested that a worker who has sustained a compensable disability should have a statutory right to continuing employment with the injury employer. Legislation on those lines has been enacted in Quebec,Ontario, and New Brunswick. There are pressures for similar legislation in other jurisdictions. This article, however, will focus on the general principle rather than on the details of those statutes.

Keywords: rights, workers, compensation act, statutues, employment, disability, employer

JEL Classification: K30, K31