Workmens Compensation Legislation Of The United States And Canada PDF Download

Excerpt from Workmen's Compensation Legislation of the United States and Canada as of January 1, 1929: With Text of Legislation Enacted in 1927 and 1928 The adoption of workmen's compensation for industrial injuries in lieu of the rule of the employer's liability for injuries due to his negligence stands out in its effect on the status of the worker as one of the most important legal-economic developments of modern times. A right to relief based on the fact of employment, practically automatic and certain, replaces the doubtful contest for a recovery based on proof of the employer's negligence and of the absence of the common-law defenses. Abroad, Germany in 1884 and Great Britain in 1897 and 1906 were in uential in turning attention to the system of benefits for injuries due to employment, not necessarily to a proved negligent act. Laws of Maryland (1902, 1910) and Montana (1909) were results of early efforts to enact State laws, but without adequate regard for either legal or economic principles. The first official recognition of the principle by the Congress of the United States was the Federal act of 1908, providing limited benefits for designated classes of employees of the United States; though acts of 1882 (life Saving Service) and 1900 (postal Service) had made some provision of this nature for the services indicated. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."