Canadian Mutual Funds Review

Posted on December 19, 2011 by Admin
Canadian Mutual Funds Review

Canadian Mutual Funds Review

Why is there less crime in Canada and why do workers seemingly exhibit less work-related stress? It could be that the labor culture regarding "at-will", which in the United States allows employers to terminate workers without cause, is in Canada a foreign concept. The comfort in knowing that one is protected against the personal prejudices of employers, which commonly materializes in worker-employer relationships in the United States, can contribute to a less angry workforce and, as a result, add value to social peace and stability.

Reviewing "At-Will" in the United States

The ideology of at-will in the United States dates back to the 1900s, when the judicial system regarded the employer and employee to be equal in bargaining power. The idea was that workers and employers could terminate the relationship at any time during a specified duration without obligation to the other. However, the civil rights movement of the 1960s revealed that employers had an advantage over workers through their right to set wages, hours, terms, conditions of employment, and to randomly terminate workers without cause or for mean-spirited, albeit veiled as legitimate, reasons.

The experiences of workers demonstrate that at-will has been more detrimental to the worker. At-will has been more than a bargaining power tool, having been invoked to exercise prejudice under the radar. This means that a woman of color can be terminated under the pretense of failing to follow regulations, such as not wearing appropriate footwear, when she was in fact wearing them as instructed on the first day of her employment. Employers can also accuse the worker of not giving notice of resignation as mandated in the workplace policy handbook, when the worker had in fact done so. Employers have also been known to terminate because of differences of opinion.