Canada’s vulnerable and precarious workers need more support GlobeBusiness
Job quality and compensation are key determinants of living standards. Workers in non-standard jobs are particularly vulnerable as a growing number find themselves precariously employed. The government can protect this group by offering more equitable access to both employment insurance and job-training programs to better address income and employment insecurity.
First, there is a growing absolute number of workers in precarious work, which has climbed by 1.5 million from 1997 to 2018, even as the proportion has remained the same. Another dimension is the shift toward more part-time employment, which has grown by 32 per cent since 1997 and represented 45 per cent of all precarious work and 15 per cent of total employment in 2018. The good news is that the number of involuntary part-timers has started to decline with the improvement in the overall labour market. The percentage of part-time workers who would prefer full-time employment was 22 per cent in 2018, down from 28 per cent in 2010.
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