Labour Laws of Ontario, Being a Collection of the Revised Statutes of 1897 and Subsequent Enactments Affecting the Relations of Employers and Employees and Other Matters of Interest to Operatives and Wage-earners

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Hunter, Rose, 1898 - 170 pages

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Page 133 - ... deemed to have been served at the time when a letter containing the same would be delivered in the ordinary course of post...
Page 167 - ... 1. By reason of any defect in the condition of the ways, works, machinery, or plant, connected with or used in the business of the employer which arose from or had not been discovered or remedied owing to the negligence of the employer or of any person in the service of the employer and intrusted by him with the duty of seeing that the ways, works, machinery, or plant, were in proper condition; 2.
Page 136 - Any exception, exemption, proviso, excuse, or qualification, whether it does or not accompany the description of the offence in this Act, may be proved by the defendant, but need not be specified or negatived...
Page 68 - By reason of the negligence of any person in the service of the employer who has the charge or control of any signal, points, locomotive, engine, machine, or train upon a railway...
Page 127 - ... vapors, dust or other impurities generated in the course of the manufacturing process or handicraft carried on therein that may be injurious to health.
Page 8 - Act applies, by any person whomsoever, the owner, agent, and manager shall each be guilty of an offence against this Act unless he proves that he had taken all reasonable means by publishing, and to the best of his power enforcing, the said rules as regulations for the working of the mine, to prevent such contravention or non-compliance.
Page 70 - The amount of compensation recoverable under this Act shall not exceed such sum as may be found to be equivalent to the estimated earnings, during the three years preceding the injury, of a person in the same grade employed during those years in the like employment and in the district in which the workman is employed at the time of the injury.
Page 68 - ... the workman, or in case the injury results in death, the legal personal representatives of the workman, and any person entitled in case of death, shall have the same right of compensation and remedies against the employer as if the workman had not been a workman of nor in the service of the employer nor engaged in his work.
Page 120 - ... calendar months after the fact committed, and not otherwise ; and notice in writing of such action, and of the cause thereof, shall be given to the defendant one calendar month at least before the commencement of the action...
Page 72 - The notice may also be served by post by a registered letter addressed to the person on whom it is to be served at his last known place of residence or place of business; and, if served by post shall be deemed to have been served at the time when...

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