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Workers Compensation: The Historical Compromise Revisited, Dianne Pothier

Dalhousie Law Journal

This committee, after our study, declares that our present system of workers' compensation legislation is still fundamentally sound in concept. - Report to the House of Assembly of the Select Committee on Workers' Compensation, May, 1981 In the last decade health and safety issues in the workplace have gained a special prominence. Across North America new initiatives have been taken in response to an old problem. One aspect subjected to re-evaluation in many jurisdictions is the statutory scheme of workers' compensation. In Nova Scotia a Select Committee of the Legislature was given the mandate to reassess this scheme, and its …