Sentences with phrase «more precarious jobs»
But the dramatic economic downturn in the world economy that hurt so many workers starting in 2008 only accelerated a decades - long trend toward more precarious jobs and the unstable hours, low wages, minimal benefits and insecurity that this work means for so many.
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At a time when about one in five young Canadians are underemployed or working in precarious part - time jobs, it's easy to think that the more education you have, the better.
The more you try to stamp out precarious jobs, the more damage you do to the jobs market.
The job of communications director is said to have been offered to the highly - rated Slack, but sources said he was reluctant to quit the civil service for a more precarious political post.
This prompted Arnold Schwarzenegger, California's governor, to declare a state of emergency — cautioning, alongside the Department of Fish and Game, that it would likely cost the state upwards of $ 255m and 2,263 jobs this year.This precarious situation was precipitated by another record decline in the Central Valley's salmon population — the second - lowest in more than 35 years.
«The media is full of stories of migrant worker exploitation, but this moratorium won't end the abuse it will just make workers more precarious,» insists Senthil Thevar, who came to Canada as a Temporary Foreign Worker in the food sector and was forced to switch jobs because of workers rights violations.
The nature of his job doing heavy physical work places him in a more precarious position at work than the plaintiff in Rutledge v. Jimmie, 2014 BCSC 41.
Workers who are in precarious and low - wage jobs are also at greater risk of being injured at work, less likely to report injury or unsafe working conditions, and much more likely to fall into poverty when injured.
With so many in «precarious employment» and more to come (forty percent of jobs on the lower mainland created over the past while are considered precarious positions), workers should fear their job security or their ability to find another position.