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A Law Of Just Transitions?: Putting Labor Law To Work On Climate Change, David J. Doorey
A Law Of Just Transitions?: Putting Labor Law To Work On Climate Change, David J. Doorey
Osgoode Legal Studies Research Paper Series
Climate change will dramatically affect labor markets, but labor law scholars have mostly ignored it. Environmental law scholars are concerned with climate change, but they lack expertise in the complexities of regulating the labor relationship. Neither legal field is equipped to deal adequately with the challenge of governing the effects of climate change on labor markets, employers, and workers. This essay argues that a legal field organized around the concept of a 'just transition' to a lower carbon economy could bring together environmental law, labor law, and environment justice scholars in interesting and valuable ways. "Just transitions" is a concept …
Origins And Prospects For Employee Life And Health Trusts In Canada, S. B. Archer
Origins And Prospects For Employee Life And Health Trusts In Canada, S. B. Archer
Osgoode Legal Studies Research Paper Series
A discussion of the events and factors behind the establishment of pre-funded health benefit plans in Canada with reference to the experience of voluntary employee benefit associations in the United States and the auto sector restructuring in North America during 2008-2009. It is argued that "employee life and health trusts" are used in effect to defease legacy cost liabilities of employers and only likely to be used in the context of restructuring of a workplace or industry. their structure is compared to other target benefit programs currently being proposed in Canada and elsewhere. The key issues in their negotiation and …