Taking Workers’ Rights Seriously: Private Prosecutions of Employment Standards Violations

This paper examines private prosecutions as a tool to challenge the state’s inadequate enforcement of employment standards. In Ontario, poor enforcement of employment standards means that there are no costs for non-compliance, that orders to pay wages are typically not fully paid and that vulnerabl...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kent Elson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Windsor 2008-10-01
Series:Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice
Online Access:https://wyaj.uwindsor.ca/index.php/wyaj/article/view/4549