Closing the Enforcement Gap

Improving Employment Standards Protections for People in Precarious Jobs

Leah Faith Vosko (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

472 Seiten

2020
University of Toronto Press (Verlag)
978-1-4875-2431-9 (ISBN)

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The sole source of protection for many workers in precarious jobs, this book reveals gaps in the enforcement of employment standards in Ontario, Canada, and offers a bold vision for change drawing on innovative initiatives emerging elsewhere.

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. Vosko
Guliz Akkaymak
Rebecca Casey
Shelley Condratto
John Grundy
Alan Hall
Alice Hoe
Kiran Mirchandani
Andrea M. Noack
Urvashi Soni-Sinha
Mercedes Steedman
Mark P. Thomas
Eric M. Tucker

International/Quebec Contributors
Nick Clark
Dalia Gesualdi-Fecteau
Tess Hardy
John Howe
Guylaine Vallée
David Weil

Leah F. Vosko is a professor of Political Science and Canada Research Chair in the Political Economy of Gender & Work at York University.

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Authorship
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations

1. Mapping the Enforcement Gap: Historical and Contemporary Dynamics

Part One: Charting the Employment Standards Enforcement Gap in Ontario

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

Part Two: Views from Elsewhere: Contextualizing the Employment Standards Enforcement Gap in Ontario

8. Enforcement of Wage Recovery in Britain
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. Strategic Enforcement to Confront Wage Theft in the US: An Insider Account
12. Improving Protections for People in Precarious Jobs

Notes
Supplementary Information on Quantitative and Qualitative Methods: Ontario Component

Appendix A: Quantitative Data
A.1. Administrative Data
A.2. National Surveys

Appendix B: Qualitative Data
B.1. Worker Interviews
B.2. MOL Interviews
B.3. Community Representative Interviews

Appendix C: Archival Research

Bibliography
Secondary Sources
Primary Sources
Government Documents
Statistics
Archival Sources

Index
Glossary

Erscheinungsdatum	10.05.2021
Reihe/Serie	Studies in Comparative Political Economy and Public Policy
Zusatzinfo	21 figures
Verlagsort	Toronto
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	700 g
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Recht / Steuern ► Arbeits- / Sozialrecht ► Arbeitsrecht
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
ISBN-10	1-4875-2431-5 / 1487524315
ISBN-13	978-1-4875-2431-9 / 9781487524319
Zustand	Neuware