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This is an important question, because an facts and circumstances in order to determine the true employee is entitled to various rights at common law and nature of the relationship. under BC’s Employment Standards Act. An independent contractor has much less protection. A key question in determining the status of a worker is whether the worker is performing services as a person in The greater rights and protections aorded to employees business on his/her own account. In making this result in greater obligations on the part of employers. For that determination, the level of control the employer has over reason, employers may try to have workers classified as inde- the worker’s activities will always be an important factor. pendent contractors. Sometimes an employer/independent Other relevant factors include: contractor relationship (as opposed to employer/employee) • whether the worker provides his or her own equipment. is legally valid, but sometimes it is not. Even if a contract • whether the worker hires his or her own helpers. states that a worker is an independent contractor, a court • the degree of financial risk taken by the worker. may set that aside and determine the parties’ rights and • the degree of the worker’s responsibility for investment of responsibilities on the basis that the worker is truly an the company’s funds and management of the business. employee, despite the language of the contract. In other • the worker’s opportunity for profit in the performance of tasks. words, it is the overall reality of the situation, and not just • whether the worker performs work for only one company the language of the contract, that will determine the issue. or for multiple businesses. The courts interpret the status of “employee” broadly, in For any questions on this issue, or other employment law order to safeguard workers. There is no single universal matters, contact PLLR Lawyers. 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Valid at Richmond Centre & Ackroyd White Spot Restaurants only. 4 | COMMUNITY Mid-June 2019 RICHMOND SENTINEL Nicotine addiction rising in youth, doctor warns By LORRAINE GRAVES the multiple doses for vaping. MyRichmond @ LGSentinel As the federal government did not regulate this highly addictive com- One Step, A Whole City ichmond public health officer Dr. pound as they would a drug, sales are RMeena Dawar warns we are on allowed in corner stores. While reg- the threshold of a new age in nicotine ulations exist to reduce sales to mi- addiction. nors, Dawar said more enforcement Access your City services in one In an effort to keep our youth alive would help cut down young people’s and healthy, Dawar spoke in detail access to this drug delivery system. place, with one password at the Vancouver Coastal Health fo- “We have great regulations to pro- rum June 4 at the Richmond Olympic hibit sales to minors but they need to Oval, of an increasing problem, vap- be enforced,” Dawar said. ing. She said there needs to be more View your property tax account What was to be a way to quit smok- restriction on product promotion and ing has now been dressed up to look we all must continue to advocate to Pay your property taxes trendy and is readily available, Dawar Health Canada to restrict the addition said. Some studies seem to indicate of flavourings and to restrict access Subscribe for paperless eBilling that those who start vaping are more so youth can not readily purchase likely to go on to cigarette smoking. these products as they do today. After 30 years of accelerating de- “Everybody has to be involved in clines in cigarette smoking, vaping how we can do a good job,” she said. has brought an increase in the use Dawar said the main ingredients, of nicotine for the first time in almost propylene glycol, flavours and nico- half a century. Dawar places the tine all interact with each other with- blame clearly on the availability, ad- in the container and, once turned into vertising, promotion and popularity vapour and inhaled, react with airway of vaping, particularly a trendy brand and lung tissue in ways that are not called Juul. well-researched. Originally designed as a smoking Dawar pronounced nicotine“a high- cessation device where the damag- ly addictive substance.” The chemical ing effects of inhaling smoke would nicotine, sometimes used as a pes- be lessened with an electronic de- ticide, can kill living cells as well as vice that vapourized nicotine, vaping cause cancer. Dawar urged parents is promoted as trendy, marketed in to ask their offspring about their atti- a variety of “natural” fruit flavours to tudes towards vaping. She suggested mask the unpleasant taste of nic- getting your information from Health otine, and advertised in many sub- Canada or CDC.gov websites, not the tle ways including vans of youth at ones promoted by the two biggest events, online sites unaffected by tobacco producers which are also big federal regulations and at points-of- producers of vaping chemicals and sale.