“I grabbed my stuff and walked out”: Precarious workers’ responses and next steps when faced with procedural unfairness during work injury and claims processes

Billias, Nicole; MacEachen, Ellen; Sherifali, Sue

doi:10.1007/s10926-022-10058-3

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“…If they were not registered, workers' compensation would be unavailable to them. 63 Unlike the workers' compensation system, the Canadian tax-funded healthcare system would not turn away most people with skin cancer. However, some workers may have difficulty gaining access to the healthcare system or be deterred from attempting to access it, due to immigration status.…”

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Barriers and Facilitators in the Creation of a Surveillance System for Solar Radiation-Induced Skin Cancers

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Outdoor workers are exposed to many hazards, including solar ultraviolet radiation (UVR). Identifying, reporting, analyzing and tracking the exposures or health outcomes of outdoor workers have not generally been formally considered. This article aims to summarize the best practices/strategies for creating an occupational sun exposure or skin cancer surveillance system for outdoor workers and to understand the key barriers and facilitators to the development of such a system. For the design of a successful occupational safety and health (OSH) surveillance system five occupational surveillance strategies are summarized: exposure registry, disease registry, disease screening/medical surveillance, sentinel event surveillance, and disease surveillance via data linkage. Ten key considerations are identified, including identifying a clear goal, a defined target population and stakeholder involvement, five critical barriers are highlighted including underreporting and funding, and five vital facilitators are recognized including communication/collaboration and a simple reporting process.

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Barriers and Facilitators in the Creation of a Surveillance System for Solar Radiation-Induced Skin Cancers

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“…Other challenges include communication issues, stigmas and/or negative perceptions of workers' compensation/work injury, perceived or actual claims manipulation, conflict with workers' physicians over choice of therapeutics, and treatment of all workers as fraudulent (9)(10)(11). Additionally, procedural unfairness during workers' compensation claims has been found to have emotional, behavioural, and material effects on precariously employed workers, which influences the direction workers take with their work injury situation (12).…”

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Capturing lay perspectives on policy effectiveness: Employers’ and precariously employed workers’ suggested improvements for the workers’ compensation system and work injury processes

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MacEachen

2024

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Purpose: Precarious employment rates are rising, which challenges the effectiveness of current workers’ compensation systems. Precariously employed workers encounter problems related to short-term and/or temporary employment, and complicated employment relationships. Few voices are captured in the literature from precariously employed workers and employers of these workers regarding day-today experience of workers’ compensation policies. This article describes employers’ and precariously employed workers’ suggested changes and improvements to a workers’ compensation system and other processes related to work injury and return-to-work. Methods: Semi-structured interviews were conducted in Ontario, Canada with 36 precariously employed workers and 15 employers of precariously employed workers who were recruited via social media, email lists, cold calling, word-of-mouth, and the “snowball” method. Thematic code summaries were analyzed to identify suggested workers’ compensation system improvements that relate to precarious employment. Results: Employers’ and precariously employed workers’ suggestions fell into the categories of (1) communication, (2) worker health and healthcare, and (3) worker and employer support. Conclusions: Identifying precariously employed workers and employers of precariously employed workers’ suggestions enables a better understanding of areas of improvement for workers’ compensation policy and how these policy changes could affect these stakeholders with regards to managing workplace rehabilitation and disability.

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Differences in Modified-Return-to-Work by Immigration Characteristics Among a Cohort of Workers in British Columbia, Canada

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Introduction To investigate differences in modified-return-to work (MRTW) within the first 30 days of a work-related, short-term disability injury by immigration characteristics. This question was part of a program of research investigating differences in work and health experiences among immigrant workers and explanations for longer work disability durations. Methods Workers' compensation claims, immigration records and medical registry data were linked to identify a sample of workers in British Columbia, Canada with a short-term disability claim for a work-related back strain, concussion, limb fracture or connective tissue injury occurring between 2009 and 2015. Multivariable logistic regressions, stratified by injury type, investigated the odds of MRTW, defined as at least one day within the first 30 days on claim, associated with immigration characteristics, defined as a Canadian-born worker versus a worker who immigrated via the economic, family member or refugee/other humanitarian classification. Results Immigrant workers who arrived to Canada as a family member or as a refugee/other immigrant had a reduced odds of MRTW within the first 30 days of work disability for a back strain, concussion and limb fracture, compared to Canadian-born workers. Differences in MRTW were not observed for immigrant workers who arrived to Canada via the economic classification, or for connective tissue injuries. Conclusion The persistent and consistent finding of reduced MRTW for the same injury for different immigration classifications highlights contexts (work, health, social, language) that disadvantage some immigrants upon arrival to Canada and that persist over time even after entry into the workforce, including barriers to MRTW.

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“I grabbed my stuff and walked out”: Precarious workers’ responses and next steps when faced with procedural unfairness during work injury and claims processes

Cited by 6 publications

References 27 publications

Barriers and Facilitators in the Creation of a Surveillance System for Solar Radiation-Induced Skin Cancers

Barriers and Facilitators in the Creation of a Surveillance System for Solar Radiation-Induced Skin Cancers

Capturing lay perspectives on policy effectiveness: Employers’ and precariously employed workers’ suggested improvements for the workers’ compensation system and work injury processes

Differences in Modified-Return-to-Work by Immigration Characteristics Among a Cohort of Workers in British Columbia, Canada

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