What is the purpose of the laws that regulate the relationship between businesses and workers and in whose interests were these laws enacted to serve? If these questions don’t appear all that interesting give me a few more sentences of your attention to pitch why you should care about the answers.
We currently live in an economic system where the vast majority of people have two options, they either starve in the street or attempt to sell their potential to work on the market. The latter means entering into an employment contract with a private business or a public employer (school board, hospital, crown corp etc). In return for a wage, these contracts impose a legal obligation to “obey the proper orders of the master” and gives employers the right to sell the product their workers produce for more money than they paid the workers to produce it.
In other words most people are given a choice between starvation on one hand – domination and exploitation on the other.
Today we refer to the laws that regulate the economic and contractual relationship between individual workers and owners employment law. However Canadian courts will occasionally refer to this area of law by its older, more descriptive title: The law of master and servant. This description paints a more accurate picture of the legally enshrined power relationship between the people who own and control workplaces and the people who have no realistic choice but to work in them. One class of person gives the orders...
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