The Legal Problems of Everyday Life - The Nature, Extent and Consequences of Justiciable Problems Experienced by Canadians

Figure 8. Trigger Patterns Among Employment Problems

The flowchart consists of 7 text boxes that represent various problems within the “employment” category (from figure 6): owed wages, employment insurance, health and safety, unfair dismissal, harassment, disciplinary and benefits. The diagram also shows directional arrows originating at the trigger problem and ending at the consequent problem. Each arrow is marked by a numerical value that indicates the number of times a problem of that type was reported as a trigger problem. Harassment and unfair dismissal are the problems with the most outgoing arrows (5 each), meaning they were the most common triggers for other problems. Harassment as a trigger for disciplinary problems was the most frequent reported trigger in the flowchart (15), followed by unfair dismissal as a trigger for owed wages (9), harassment as a trigger for health and safety problems (8) and health and safety problems as a trigger for unfair dismissal (8). Owed wages, employment insurance, disciplinary problems and benefits have only incoming arrows, not outgoing arrows. This means they were consequences of other problems but were not reported as trigger problems themselves.