boilers, heavy machinery; erection of wind-mills; railway construction; irrigation operations, dredging, fishing; operation of boats; window-cleaning; exhibition associations. Class 45.-Operation of express companies, in connection with railways. Class 89.-Municipal corporations. Class 91.-Canadian Pacific Railway Co. Class 92. Grand Trunk Pacific Railway Co. Class:94.-Edmonton, Dunvegan & British Columbia Railway. Class 95.-Employment by Dominion Government. Class 96.-Employment by Provincial Government of Alberta. [1918, c. 5, Schedule 2; 1919, c. 36, s. 16; 1921, c. 38, s. 11.] SCHEDULE 3. DESCRIPTION OF Anthrax DESCRIPTION OF Handling of wool, hair, bristles, hides and skins. Lead poisoning or its sequelae. Any process involving the Mercury poisoning or its sequelae. Miners' Phthisis. Phosphorus poisoning or its sequelae. Arsenic poisoning or its sequelae. Ankylostomiasis. use of lead or its preparations or compounds. Short title Negligence of fellow workman no defence in action against employer CHAPTER 178. An Act to Take Away the Defence of Common HIS IS MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Alberta, enacts as follows: 1. This Act may be cited as "The Defence of Common Employment Act." [1900, c. 13, s. 1.] 2. It shall not be a good defence in law by an employer or the successor or legal representative of an employer to any action for damages for the injury or death of an employee of such employer that such injury or death resulted from the negligence of an employee engaged in a common employment with the injured employee any contract or agreement to the contrary notwithstanding. [1900, c. 13, s. 2.] CHAPTER 179. An Act respecting Government and Other Employment Offices. HIS MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Alberta, enacts as follows: Short Title. 1. This Act may be cited as "The Employment Offices Short title Act." [1919, c. 14, s. 1.] Interpretation. 2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, Interpretation (a) "Bureau" shall mean the Alberta Government Bureau Employment Bureau; (b) "Director" shall mean Director of the Alberta Director Government Employment Bureau; office (c) "Employment office" shall mean and include the Employment. Government Employment Bureau. Government 3. There is hereby constituted a branch of the Public Albertic Service of the Province to be known as "The Alberta Govern- Employment ment Employment Bureau." [1919, c. 14, s. 3.] Bureau 4. The branch shall be attached to such one of the Department present departments of the Public Service as may be designated by the Lieutenant Governor in Council, and shall be under the direction and control of the Minister in charge of that department. [1919, c. 14, s. 4.] 5. The Lieutenant Governor in Council may appoint a Director director and such other employees as may be deemed advisable. [1919, c. 14, s. 5.] director 6. In respect to matters assigned to the bureau the Powers of director shall exercise such powers and perform such duties as may be assigned to him by the Lieutenant Governor in Council or by the Minister. [1919, c. 14, s. 6.] 7. The Lieutenant Governor in Council may appoint an Advisory advisory council, representative of employers and employees, council whose duty it shall be to advise the Minister in directing the policy of the bureau. [1919, c. 14, s. 7.] Employment districts Duties of employment bureau Regulations Prohibition against receiving fee for sending out person seeking employment 8. The Lieutenant Governor in Council may divide the Province into such employment districts as may be deemed advisable; and establish an employment office in each and appoint officials and staff to manage the same, and may appoint an advisory committee, representative of employees and employers, to assist the official in charge in the discharge of his duties and in co-operating with the advisory council in the work of applying the national employment policy to the industries of the Province. [1919, c. 14, s. 8.] 9. It shall be the duty of the bureau to (a) establish a clearing house or clearing houses to provide facilities for finding employment and for the distribution of male and female labour throughout and without the Province; (b) co-operate with the Dominion authorities for the inter-provincial distribution of labour, and to enter into any arrangement with them for the purpose of carrying out any of the terms of The Employment Offices Co-ordination Act: (c) put employers who want work-people and workpeople who want employment within Alberta into communication with one another free of charge; (d) collect such statistical and other information respecting trades and industries in the Province as may be deemed necessary or expedient from time to time; (e) inquire and report as to the establishment of new industries in Alberta in any case where, by reason of the production of raw material for such industries in the Province or of the immigration of persons skilled in such industries or other circumstances, it appears that such industries can profitably be carried on. [1919, c. 14, s. 9.] 10. The Lieutenant Governor in Council may from time to time make such regulations and prescribe such forms as may be deemed necessary for the proper carrying into effect of the provisions of this Act, and such regulations shall have the same force and effect as if they were included in this Act. [1919, c. 14, s. 10.] Other Employment Offices. 11. No person, firm, corporation or association shall open, conduct or carry on any employment agency or office for fee or reward or collect or receive directly or indirectly any fee or compensation for sending or persuading, enticing, inducing, procuring or causing to be sent from or to any place within the Province to or from any place outside the 12. Every person contravening the provisions of the Penalty preceding section shall, upon summary conviction before a police magistrate or two or more justices of the peace, be liable to a fine of not more than twenty-five dollars, and in default of payment of such fine and of the costs of prosecution to imprisonment for a period not exceeding three months, unless the fine and costs are sooner paid. [1919, c. 15, s. 2.] |