Le retour au travail d’immigrants ayant subi une lésion professionnelle : les embûches
        de la rencontre interculturelle et la précarité du lien d’emploi

Gravel, Sylvie; Dubé, Jessica; Côté, Daniel; White, Bob W.; Gratton, Danielle

doi:10.7202/1040609ar

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“…This study contributes to the scarce literature on the ways in which employers delegitimise the injury claims of precariously employed workers (Gravel et al, 2006 ;Gravel et al, 2017). In this study, employers challenged workers about whether the injury could be attributed to their workplace and described accidents as due to their own carelessness ("they are just a danger to themselves").…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 96%

Workers’ compensation claims for precariously employed workers in Ontario: employer resistance and workers’ limited voice

MacEachen¹,

Senthanar²,

Lippel³

2021

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Le retour au travail après une lésion professionnelle pour les travailleuses et travailleurs en situation de précarité Workers' compensation claims for precariously employed workers in Ontario: employer resistance and workers' limited voice L'indemnisation des travailleurs précaires en Ontario : résistance des employeurs et droit de parole limité pour les victimes de lésions professionnelles

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 96%

Workers’ compensation claims for precariously employed workers in Ontario: employer resistance and workers’ limited voice

MacEachen¹,

Senthanar²,

Lippel³

2021

pistes

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“…A number of studies also point to challenges at different stages of the compensation process for immigrant workers that may prolong seeking disability benefits and time off work for injury with implications for recovery, rehabilitation and return to work. These challenges are largely shaped by language barriers [33] and include under-reporting of work-related injuries [22,63,64] and waiting until injuries are more severe to seek compensation, the issue of injury attribution or having their claim recognized as work-related, especially if contested by employers resulting in claim denials and appeals [14,65,66], and provision of appropriate work accommodation [14,22]. The current findings suggest these labour market experiences, and their impacts may be differentially experienced by immigrants who arrive in Canada as refugees or family members; and that arriving in Canada via the economic classification may mitigate some of these experiences and impacts.…”

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confidence: 99%

Differences in Work Disability Duration for Immigrants and Canadian-Born Workers in British Columbia, Canada

Senthanar

Koehoorn

Tamburic

et al. 2021

IJERPH

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This study aimed to investigate differences in work disability duration among immigrants (categorized as economic, family member or refugee/other classification upon arrival to Canada) compared to Canadian-born workers with a work-related injury in British Columbia. Immigrants and Canadian-born workers were identified from linked immigration records with workers’ compensation claims for work-related back strain, connective tissue, concussion and fracture injuries requiring at least one paid day of work disability benefits between 2009 to 2015. Quantile regression investigated the relationship between immigration classification and predicted work disability days (defined from injury date to end of compensation claim, up to 365 days) and modeled at the 25th, 50th and 75th percentile of the distribution of the disability days. With a few exceptions, immigrants experienced greater predicted disability days compared to Canadian-born workers within the same injury cohort. The largest differences were observed for family and refugee/other immigrant classification workers, and, in particular, for women within these classifications, compared to Canadian-born workers. For example, at the 50th percentile of the distribution of disability days, we observed a difference of 34.1 days longer for refugee/other women in the concussion cohort and a difference of 27.5 days longer for family classification women in the fracture cohort. Economic immigrants had comparable disability days with Canadian-born workers, especially at the 25th and 50th percentiles of the distribution. Immigrant workers’ longer disability durations may be a result of more severe injuries or challenges navigating the workers’ compensation system with delays in seeking disability benefits and rehabilitation services. Differences by immigrant classification speak to vulnerabilities or inequities upon arrival in Canada that persist after entry to the workforce and warrant further investigation for early mitigation strategies.

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“…Gravel et al ( 77 ) investigate the motivation of migrant workers in the RTW process following WRI, based on a model of precarity ( 104 ), including job precarity (contract type), immigration-related precarity, professional precarity (non-recognition of previous work qualifications and experience) and economic precarity (unpaid overtime, low hourly wages regardless of qualifications, debts owed to recruiters/agents and overseas remittances). They conclude these dimensions of precarity may be potential determinants of a “symbolic break” with the RTW process, negatively influencing WRI experiences and outcomes ( 77 ).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Analyses of worker compensation advisors’ views towards RTW following WRI, report the intertwining of age and gender identities as influencing older migrant women migrants' motivation to RTW following WRI ( 76 , 77 ). They suggest migrant women's identities as “self-assigned family caregivers” may take precedence over their identities as workers, negatively impacting motivation to RTW following WRI ( 76 , 77 ).…”

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confidence: 99%

“On the books” yet “off the record”-occupational injury and migrant women: scoping review findings from OECD countries, with implications for New Zealand

Radka,

Wyeth,

Craik

et al. 2024

Front. Glob. Womens Health

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IntroductionLittle appears to be known regarding the work-related injury (WRI) experiences of migrants (those born in a country other than their identified host country) and specifically, women migrants.MethodsAs part of a wider PhD project investigating the WRI experiences of New Zealand (NZ) migrants, a review of NZ mainstream media coverage of migrants WRIs was undertaken, which identified no representations of migrant women's WRI experiences. In turn, a scoping review was undertaken to identify peer-reviewed publications reporting empirical findings about WRI experiences and outcomes for migrants in Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) member countries, including NZ. This paper aims to identify and describe findings for migrant women specifically. From 2,243 potential publications, 383 proceeded to full text review; ultimately 67 were retained. These 67 publications were reviewed to identify findings specifically for occupationally injured migrant women; 22 such publications (from 21 studies) were found. This paper reports: the characteristics of identified studies; characteristics of migrant women within; frameworks and theories used, and knowledge (and gaps) related to occupationally injured migrant women.ResultsPublications came from only four OECD countries, the United States, Canada, Australia, and Spain. A range of study designs, and topic areas (working conditions, legal rights, identities, the role of gatekeepers, and precarity), were identified; however, only three studies reported findings for longer-term experiences and outcomes of WRIs. Nine publications considered theoretical models underpinning research, including theories about precarious work, stigmatization, and citizenship. However, there was a paucity of analyses of the WRI experience throughout the life-course, highlighting a gap in understanding of how these experiences are “lived” over the long term by occupationally injured migrant women.DiscussionScoping review findings were synthesized using a provisional “matryoshka framing narrative” model, to be refined through forthcoming qualitative interviews with occupationally injured NZ migrant women. This model highlights the multitude of influences in WRI experiences, potentially specific to migrant women, suggesting the consequences of WRIs may be uneven, with migrant women experiencing different, and potentially, greater disparities in outcomes. These findings provide an impetus to investigate knowledge gaps and urgently address potential disparities in WRI outcomes for migrant women specifically.

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Le retour au travail d’immigrants ayant subi une lésion professionnelle : les embûches de la rencontre interculturelle et la précarité du lien d’emploi

Cited by 10 publications

References 30 publications

Workers’ compensation claims for precariously employed workers in Ontario: employer resistance and workers’ limited voice

Workers’ compensation claims for precariously employed workers in Ontario: employer resistance and workers’ limited voice

Differences in Work Disability Duration for Immigrants and Canadian-Born Workers in British Columbia, Canada

“On the books” yet “off the record”-occupational injury and migrant women: scoping review findings from OECD countries, with implications for New Zealand

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