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HRMT 323: Injury Compensation and Disability Management (Rev. C3) Report a Broken Link

Workers’ compensation systems are the way Canada chooses to compensate workers for the effects of work-related injuries. This course examines the compensation of workplace injuries and the management of disability in Canadian workplaces. The purpose of this course is to provide students with a broad grounding in the practice and research literature in these fields. This course emphasizes understanding the experience of workers as they move through injury compensation and disability management processes, as well as understanding the political economy of injury compensation and disability management.

Introduction

Athabasca University. (2012). HRMT 323 Course introduction [Video file].

Textbook

Barnetson, B. (2010). The political economy of workplace injury in Canada. Edmonton: Athabasca University Press.

Required Readings

Unit 1

Meet Bill

Meet Sue

Storey, R. (2009). From invisibility to equality? Women workers and the gendering of workers' compensation in Ontario, 1900–2005. Labour/Le Travail, 64, 75–109. Retrieved from http://www.lltjournal.ca/index.php/llt/article/view/5576
Barnetson, B., Foster, J., & Matsünaga-Türnbüll, J. (2018). Estimating under-claiming of compensable workplace injuries in Alberta, Canada. Canadian Public Policy, 44(4), 400–410.
Lippel, K. (2008). Workers’ compensation and controversial illnesses. In P. Moss & K. Teghtsoonian (Eds.), Contesting illness: Processes and practices (pp. 47–68). Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Press.
Lippel, K. (1999). Workers’ compensation and stress: Gender and access to compensation. International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, 22(1), 79–89.
Gravel, S., Vissandjée, B., Lippel, K., Brodeur, J-M., Patry, L., & Champagne, F. (2010). Ethics and the compensation of immigrant workers for work-related injuries and illnesses. Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health, 12(5), 707–714.
Lippel, K., & Walters, D. (2019). Regulating health and safety and workers’ compensation in Canada for the mobile workforce: Now you see them, now you don’t. New Solutions, 29(3), 317–348.
Lippel, K. (2012). Preserving workers’ dignity in workers’ compensation systems: An international perspective. American Journal of Industrial Medicine, 55(6), 519–536.

Unit 2

Meet Ernest

Bill Concludes

Mongeau, S., Lightfoot, N., MacEwan, L., & Eger, T. (2020). Mining-related lower back injuries and the compensation process: An injured worker’s journey. Workplace Health and Safety, 68(1), 24–31.
Lippel, K. (2007). Workers describe the effect of the workers’ compensation process on their health: A Québec study. International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, 30(4–5), 427–443.
Meet Sandy

More From Sue

Ernest Concludes

Sandy Concludes

Sue Concludes

MacEachen, E., Kosny, A., Ferrier, S., & Chambers, L. (2010). The “toxic dose” of system problems: Why some injured workers don’t return to work as expected. Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation, 20(3), 349–366.

Unit 3

Foster, J., & Barnetson, B. (2016). Disability management and return to work. In Health and Safety in Canadian Workplaces (pp. 203–218). Edmonton, AB: AU Press.

Note that you will have to select "10. Disability management and return to work" from the Table of Contents menu to access this reading.
Buys, N., Wagner, S., Randall, C., Harder, H., Geisen, T., Yu, I., Hassler, B., Howe, C., & Fraess-Phillips, A. (2017). Disability management and organizational culture in Australia and Canada. Work, 57(3), 409–419.
MacEachen, E., Ferrier, S., Kosny, A., & Chambers, L. (2007). A deliberation on ‘hurt versus harm’ in early-return-to-work policy. Policy and Practice in Health and Safety, 5(2), 41–62.
MacEachen, E., Clarke, J., Franche, R-L., & Irvin, E. (2006). Systematic review of the qualitative literature on return to work after injury. Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environmental and Health, 32(4), 257–269. Retrieved from http://www.sjweh.fi/show_abstract.php?abstract_id=1009
Tompa, E., de Oliveira, C., Dolinschi, R., & Irvin, E. (2008). A systematic review of disability management interventions with economic evaluations. Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation, 18(1), 16–26.

Unit 4

Occupational Health and Safety Council of Ontario. (2010). Developing workplace violence and harassment policies and programs: What employers need to know. Sudbury, ON: Workplace Safety North.
Stone, K. L. (2009). From queen bees and wannabes to worker bees: Why gender considerations should inform the emerging law of workplace bullying. New York University Annual Survey of American Law, 65(35), 35–86.
Beale, D., & Hoel, H. (2011). Workplace bullying and the employment relationship: Exploring questions of prevention, control and context. Work, Employment and Society, 25(1), 5–18.