The Workmen's Compensation Act 1906 (
6 Edw. 7. c. 58) was an
act of the
Parliament of the United Kingdom
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which deals with the right of working people for compensation for personal injury. The act expanded the scheme created by the
Workmen's Compensation Act 1897 (
60 & 61 Vict. c. 37).
It fixes the compensation that a workman may recover from an employer in case of accident giving to a workman, except in certain cases of "serious and wilful misconduct", a right against his employer to a certain compensation on the mere occurrence of an accident where the common law gives the right only for negligence of the employer.
A 'workman' was defined as:
Exceptions were made, including non-manual workers employed on annual pay over £250, casual workers employed "otherwise than for the purposes of their employer's trade or business",
outworkers and family workers. Hence specific exclusions were made at both the top and bottom end of the labour market.
The
National Insurance (Industrial Injuries) Act 1946 abolished the scheme (except for transitional cases) and replaced it with one of state liability.
See also
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Workers' compensation
Workers' compensation or workers' comp is a form of insurance providing wage replacement and medical benefits to employees injured in the course of employment in exchange for mandatory relinquishment of the employee's right to sue his or her emp ...
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Workmen's Compensation Act 1897
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Contracts of Employment Act 1963
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UK labour law
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English tort law
English tort law concerns the compensation for harm to people's rights to health and safety, a clean environment, property, their economic interests, or their reputations. A "tort" is a wrong in civil law, rather than English criminal law, crimi ...
Notes
References
*Simon Deakin, 'The historical process of wage formation', in Linda Clarke et al., ''The Dynamics of Wage Relations in the New Europe'' (2000) pp. 38–9
External links
Workers Compensation Attorney* Text of the Ac
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