Sentences with phrase «with precarious employment»

Not exact matches

TORONTO — The rise of so - called precarious employment in Canada — mainly work in the services and retail sectors — has brought with it some questionable employer practices that have employees stressed out and labour activists fuming.

TORONTO — The rise of so - called precarious employment in Canada — mainly work in the services and retail sectors — has brought with

The precarious workforce includes workers with insecure employment arrangements with few job protections, including temporary workers, freelance workers and independent contractors, part - time workers, and day laborers.

The exact size and growth of this workforce is debated, but workers employed under precarious work conditions make up a significant portion of the larger workforce, with estimates that 4 out of every 10 workers are now employed in precarious situations.49 These workers typically face higher income volatility than workers in traditional employment relationships because they spend more time unemployed or underemployed and some have low earnings.50

With an image of the Bastille being stormed by a rabble of freelance writers, part - time cooks and itinerant Caribbean fruit pickers in mind, perhaps it's relevant to consider the current situation in Europe, where generations of abundant labour regulation have robbed much of the Continent of employment flexibility — sorry, precarious work.

Current and recent projects include «Immigrants and Precarious Employment» (with P. Landolt); the «Poverty and Employment Precarity in Southern Ontario» research alliance (directed by W. Lewchuck and in collaboration with the UWGTA); the «Agency Data on Migration» project (directed by A. Kim); and «Negotiating the Boundaries of Rights and Membership» (directed by P. Landolt).

Although there have been significant gains in employment, most of the high paying jobs that were once available in manufacturing during the height of the Auto Pact have been replaced by precarious service industry jobs with much lower rates of pay.

The decline of defined benefit pension plans outside of the public sector, coupled with the rise of self - employment, contract work and precarious, part - time labour have made saving for retirement more challenging — and more important — than ever.

Precarious Employment and People with Disabilities.

Indeed, the Government of Ontario's Changing Workplaces Review reflects a need to revisit Ontario's legislative framework to better align it with growing trends in the workplace, including the rise in precarious employment and rapid technological change.

The proposed changes in Bill 148 to the Employment Standards Act (ESA) and Labour Relations Act (LRA) provide a good start to addressing precarious work to deal with changing workplace practices.

Not just the poorest of the poor but people in precarious employment, those with lower levels of education, people with disabilities, those living in housing stress, and many Indigenous Australians.

As KOWEPS examines employment status and depression using CES - D, several reports have identified the effects of employment status and depression using KOWEPS data.33 — 35 Kim et al33 found that changing from precarious to permanent work or from permanent to precarious work was associated with new - onset depressive symptoms among Korean women.

With the unemployment rate being near 10 percent, many couples face the stress of a precarious financial situation.3 Concerns about employment, housing, and providing food and other necessities for family members can lead to many mental health difficulties, such as anxiety and depression.

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.