Interim Report on Laws Relating to the Liability of Employers: To Make Compensation to Their Employees, for Injuries Received in the Course of Their, ... in Force in Other Countries (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

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Excerpt from Interim Report on Laws Relating to the Liability of Employers: To Make Compensation to Their Employees, for Injuries Received in the Course of Their, Employment Which Are in Force in Other Countries

May it Please Your Honour:

I have the honour to report that although considerable progress has been made in the prosecution of the inquiries which I was by Your Honour's Commission bearing date the 30th day of June, 1910, appointed to make "as to the laws relating to the liability of employers to make compensation to their employees for injuries received in the course of their employment, which are in force in other countries, and as to how far such laws are found to work satisfactorily," I am as yet unable to make any recommendation for enacting in this Province any of the provisions of these laws, or to report a bill embodying changes in the law which, in my opinion, should be adopted.

A considerable volume of oral evidence has been taken, and with the aid of the able and indefatigable Secretary of the Commission a large mass of documentary evidence has been obtained and collated, including copies of the laws which have been enacted in the countries of Europe and of North America.

Sufficient progress has, however, been made to warrant the statement that the law of Ontario is entirely inadequate to meet the conditions under which industries are now carried on or to provide just compensation for those employed in them who meet with injuries or suffer from occupational diseases contracted in the course of their employment.

It is satisfactory to be able to say that there is practical unanimity on this point, and that those who speak for the employers concede the justice of the claim made on behalf of the employees that the industries should bear the burden of making compensation.

The employers, however, contend that the whole of this burden should not be borne by them, but that the employees should share it, and suggest as a fair contribution by the employees 10 per cent. of the amount required to provide for the compensation.

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