Closing the Enforcement Gap : Improving Employment Standards Protections for People in Precarious Jobs / Leah Faith Vosko.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vosko, Leah F., Author.

Series:

Studies in comparative political economy and public policy.

Studies in Comparative Political Economy and Public Policy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Labor laws and legislation--Ontario--Cases.

Labor laws and legislation.

Precarious employment--Ontario--Case studies.

Precarious employment.

Ontario.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (470 pages).

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The nature of employment is changing: low wage jobs are increasingly common, fewer workers belong to unions, and workplaces are being transformed through the growth of contracting-out, franchising, and extended supply chains. Closing the Enforcement Gap offers a comprehensive analysis of the enforcement of employment standards in Ontario. Adopting mixed methods, this work includes qualitative research involving in-depth interviews with workers, community advocates, and enforcement officials; extensive archival research excavating decades of ministerial records; and analysis of a previously untapped source of administrative data collected by Ontario’s Ministry of Labour. The authors reveal and trace the roots of a deepening "enforcement gap" that pervades nearly all aspects of the regime, demonstrating that the province’s Employment Standards Act (ESA) fails too many workers who rely on the floor of minimum conditions it was devised to provide. Arguably, there is nothing inevitable about the enforcement gap in Ontario or for that matter elsewhere. Through contributions from leading employment standards enforcement scholars in the US, the UK, and Australia, as well as Quebec, Closing the Enforcement Gap surveys innovative enforcement models that are emerging in a variety of jurisdictions and sets out a bold vision for strengthening employment standards enforcement. Closing the Enforcement Gap Research Group Leah F. VoskoGuliz AkkaymakRebecca CaseyShelley CondrattoJohn GrundyAlan HallAlice HoeKiran MirchandaniAndrea M. NoackUrvashi Soni-SinhaMercedes SteedmanMark P. ThomasEric M. Tucker International/Quebec ContributorsNick ClarkDalia Gesualdi-FecteauTess HardyJohn HoweGuylaine ValléeDavid Weil

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Graphs, Tables, and Figures

Authorship

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

1 Mapping the Enforcement Gap: Historical and Contemporary Dynamics

2 Responsibilization, Reprisal, and (Non-)Remediation: Interrogating the Role of an Individualized Complaints System

3 Administering Complaints: Dilemmas of Accountability

4 Recovering Employees’ Wages?

5 The Contradictory Role of Workplace Inspections

6 The Deterrence Gap: Towards an Explanation

7 Strengthening Participatory Approaches to Enforcement

8 Unpaid Britain: Challenges of Enforcement and Wage Recovery

9 Out of the Shadows and into the Spotlight: The Sweeping Evolution of Employment Standards Enforcement in Australia

10 Enforcing Employment Standards in Quebec: One Step Forward, Two Steps Backward?

11 Improving Workplace Conditions through Strategic Enforcement: The U.S. Experience

12 Improving Employment Standards Enforcement for People in Precarious Jobs

Supplementary Information on Quantitative and Qualitative Methods: Ontario Component

Glossary

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)

ISBN:

1-4875-3405-1

1-4875-3404-3

OCLC:

1142630078