Precarious Employment and Workers' Compensation

Quinlan, Michael; Mayhew, Claire

doi:10.1016/s0160-2527(99)00023-0

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“…It has been found in earlier studies that occupational injuries, defined in place and time, are less underreported than work-related diseases. Further, occupational disorders with long-term sick leave are also less underreported than others (Menckel & Kullinger, 1996;Quinlan & Mayhew, 1999), supporting the importance of the compensation system for the likelihood of reporting.…”

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confidence: 97%

“…The level of underreporting in selfreported statistics is unclear but considered as high (Quinlan & Mayhew, 1999). Likewise, there is little knowledge of the willingness to report occupational disorders.…”

Section: Reporting Occupational Disordersmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Reporting also varies between counties and groups of workers, e.g. workers in sparsely populated areas, women, young people, and those who are selfemployed and precariously employed (Parker, Carl, French & Martin, 1994;Quinlan & Mayhew, 1999). However, a study of hospital environmental service workers found underreporting more likely among older workers and those having worked longer time at the same job (Weddle, 1996).…”

Section: Reporting Occupational Disordersmentioning

confidence: 99%

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“Making it work in the frontline” explains female home care workers’ defining, recognizing, communicating and reporting of occupational disorders

Dellve

Hallberg

2008

International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well

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Epidemiological research has so far failed to explain the high incidence of occupational disorders among home care workers (HCWs) and the great differences in organizational incidence rate. A qualitative approach may contribute to a deeper understanding of work group reasoning and handling in a more contextual manner. The aim of this grounded theory study was to gain a deeper understanding of the main concern in the processes of recognizing, communicating and reporting occupational disorders among HCWs. Focus group interviews were conducted with 40 HCWs in 9 focus groups. The selected municipalities represented variations in municipality type and incidence rate of occupational disorders. Making it work in the frontline was identified as the core category explaining that the perceived work situation in home care work was the main concern but interacted with work-group socialising processes as well as with the communicability and derivability of the occupational disorder when defining and reporting occupational disorders. Complex problems could be reformulated and agreed within the workgroup to increase communicability. Described significances for reporting/non-reporting were related to financial compensation, to a part of organizational political game or to an existential uncertainty, i.e. questioning if it belonged to their chosen work and life. Our conclusion is that working situation and work group attitudes have importance for reporting of occupational disorders. To support work-related health for HCWs, integrating communication should be developed about work-related challenges in work situation, as well as about attitudes, culture and efficiency within work-group.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 97%

Section: Reporting Occupational Disordersmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Reporting Occupational Disordersmentioning

confidence: 99%

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“Making it work in the frontline” explains female home care workers’ defining, recognizing, communicating and reporting of occupational disorders

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Hallberg

2008

International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well

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“…Since the early 1970s, all residents of Canada have access to free medical services regardless of the cause of their injury [Hurley et al, 2008], so the medical insurance provided by workers' compensation while useful, is not essential to Canadian workers in the same way as it has been in the United States [Herbert et al, 1999;Hamm et al, 2007]. Australian studies have also found that public healthcare benefits pick up the costs of care for many work related injuries and disease [Quinlan and Mayhew, 1999].…”

Section: Workers' Compensation Systems: Positive and Negative Attribumentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Mutualized private or employer provided insurance is mandatory in most European jurisdictions [Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2003;Anema et al, 2009], but this is not the case in Canada and close to half of the Canadian working population have no access to such benefits [Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2010]; those who are precariously employed, rarely have access to salary replacement benefits in the case of injury or disease that leads to work disability [Quinlan and Mayhew, 1999;Marshall, 2003], unless the cause of the ensuing disability is work.…”

Section: Workers' Compensation Systems: Positive and Negative Attribumentioning

confidence: 99%

Preserving workers' dignity in workers' compensation systems: An international perspective

Lippel

2012

American J Industrial Med

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BackgroundWorkers' compensation systems are among the most generous disability insurance systems in North America, although they are also known to be potentially adversarial and may have iatrogenic effects on claimants. This article examines issues to be considered to ensure fair compensation provided in a way that respects the dignity of workers.MethodsAn overview of the literature on characteristics and effects of workers' compensation systems is followed by an analysis based on classic legal methods, including those of comparative law, complemented with interview data to examine three models of disability compensation.ResultsThe first part of the article identifies cross cutting issues to be considered in the examination of the equity of compensation systems and the protection of the dignity of claimants. These include three underpinnings of workers' compensation: the links between a “no‐fault” system and the adversarial process, the appropriate use of medical and scientific evidence in the determination of compensability and the application of appropriate measures for promoting return to work. The second part looks at accident compensation in New Zealand, where compensation is available regardless of the cause of the accident, and disability insurance in the Netherlands, where compensation is available regardless of the cause of the disability. It then describes a composite of characteristics favorable to equity drawn from the thirteen workers' compensation systems in Canada.ConclusionSystems that succeed in reducing opportunities for adversarial interactions and that provide substantive protection could better promote the dignity of claimants. Am. J. Ind. Med. 55:519–536, 2012. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

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