Amid a prolonged pandemic, laid-off workers took stock and reassessed their priorities. Others, grappling with burnout in precarious or stressful work environments with long hours, simply walked away.
Some of the hardest hit sectors are struggling to find and retain workers. Wages have increased, but signs suggest some of that growth is slowing. Although retail employment is up from 2021, when public health restrictions kept many stores partially or fully closed, payroll employment dropped in both April and May, Statistics Canada data released Thursday shows.
"I got to see how important the social determinants of health are to people's health. Just ensuring that they have a steady income, ensuring they have job security, ensuring that they have the availability of having sick days," she says. “By the first week of March I had burnout. I would shake at work because of this pressure of wanting to make things better for our membership."
“I have a lot of hope inside of me and I have a lot of energy inside of me. I just want to do the best I can to use my voice to try and elevate others.”Growing up, Lindsay Couture thought she was meant to take care of people. From the age of 11, she was the primary caregiver for her mother who had respiratory issues.
After taking a year off, she was ready to work as a PSW again, but wanted to do it on her own terms. So, she opened her own community care company. She also drives for Uber as a side gig, which alone makes her more money than her full-time job as a PSW did.While working her new jobs, Couture is able to prioritize her mental health, find enough energy for work and put herself first before supporting others.
After teaching for four years at Collège Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes, a private high school on Montreal's south shore, Raymond started to feel worn out. The Quebec Provincial Association of Teachers says about a third of young teachers will leave the profession — one of the several industries facing a labour shortage — within five years due to poor working conditions.
Fox left the industry in the spring of 2020 when an eatery in Whitehorse closed temporarily due to the pandemic. But that decision had been brewing for at least two years when an intoxicated Canada Day celebrant who refused to pay his bill unleashed a flurry of"transphobic, homophobic and misogynist slurs that were made very publicly."
Regardless of the location, however, the experience was mostly the same: restaurateurs focusing on keeping patrons, especially regulars, happy at the expense of protecting staff that, in many cases, work long, irregular hours for low wages. "I definitely feel more physically and emotionally safe. At least when things are hard, they're hard because I'm doing work that I find valuable and that I know is moving me forward. I'm not just treading water."Daniel Bois never imagined himself quitting his job but as he handed over his letter of resignation a sense of relief settled over him.
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