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Language Accommodations in Workers’ Compensation: Comparing Ontario and Quebec
- Source :
- New Solutions
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- SAGE Publications, 2021.
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Abstract
- Workers who experience language barriers are more likely to get injured or sick because of their work and have poorer claim and return-to-work outcomes compared to other workers. To better understand the systemic factors that shape access to compensation in contexts of language barriers, we compared language accommodation policies and practices in the Quebec and Ontario workers’ compensation systems. We uncovered gaps limiting access to professional interpreters in both provinces, although gaps were more pronounced in Quebec where workers were responsible for the cost of interpreters. We argue that simply improving the linguistic competence of workers’ compensation systems is not sufficient to tackle access barriers and must be accompanied by efforts to address the root causes of social and economic inequities for workers who experience language barriers.
- Subjects :
- Ontario
workers’ compensation
Medical education
language
Quebec
Language barrier
Workers' compensation
General Medicine
Feature Articles
030210 environmental & occupational health
03 medical and health sciences
Return to Work
0302 clinical medicine
Work (electrical)
8. Economic growth
Humans
Workers' Compensation
030212 general & internal medicine
policies and practices
Psychology
accommodations
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15413772 and 10482911
- Volume :
- 31
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- NEW SOLUTIONS: A Journal of Environmental and Occupational Health Policy
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....fb33176c2597e7c0f94c12b3b23d91fe