Thursday, March 24, 2005

Help for Vulnerable Workers

This comes from the Weekly Work Report, produced by Lancaster House.

The Canadian Policy Research Network has released two studies of vulnerable workers.

Non-Standard Work and Economic Vulnerability looks at the kinds of employment relationships and the extent of low pay among these workers, essentially part-time and self-employed workers.

The second study, Towards Enhancing the Employment Conditions of Vulnerable Workers: A Public Policy Perspective, discusses ways of ensuring that vulnerable workers are covered by minimum employment standards and receive traditional benefits This could include:

  • broadening the scope of existing laws to include non-traditional employment relationships;
  • providing some rights and benefits on a universal basis;
  • creating "social drawing rights", based on paid or unpaid work that is socially useful;
  • and improving access to collective representation

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