Precarious Positions: Policy Options to Mitigate Risks in Non-standard Employment

The motivation for We find that although the prevalence of all forms doing so is reasonably straightforward: if a large of non-standard work combined has not changed segment of workers faces uncertainties, due to a much in the last two decades, there have been lack of employment security and low compensation, notable increases in temporary-term and contract this could reduce willingness to spend, [...] Regarding the and then labeled employment as either “stable,” latter, the report highlights job characteristics such “secure,” “vulnerable,” or “precarious.” After as: a lack of benefits, involuntary part-time work, assigning the responses to an index, the study found work for temporary help agencies, term or contract that more than half of employees in the GTHA work, and others, in helping to def [...] As in Spain, this shifted attention to the stringent protections of incumbent workers; by removing some of the restrictions on dismissing permanent workers, and bridging the gaps in the cost of firing temporary vs permanent workers, there would be greater opportunities for new workers to compete with existing ones and less incentives to limit dismissals to temporary workers. [...] The reform represented for federal government intervention to step in a cost-neutral way for the government to extend and address these gaps, particularly in the case of better coverage to all low-income citizens. [...] Because there is some appetite to test longer period of time, the case could be made that pilots of the program, we suggest considering a recently announced reforms to the Canadian Pension version of the plan that could extend skills training Plan should help these workers in the long run options to temporary workers as of their second because the additional CPP coverage and benefits, contract wit