Precarious workers in Canada in the 21st century:
The need for cellphones for on-call shifts or jobs-
https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2017/03/20/precarious-jobs-scar-employees-mental-health-survey.htmlThe 2017 Federal Budget will offer precarious workers including interns some help in the coming year by tackling wage theft:
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Some jobseekers in the Greater Toronto Area are being told of opportunities in smaller communities outside of the GTA. For newcomers
with skills and education, those opportunities offer chances to join the workforce in different settings.
That’s the mindset the Peel newcomer service agency is hoping to change with an innovative program, called the Rural Employment Initiative, which aims to connect newcomers with job openings in smaller Ontario communities.
Currently, the program serves any employer outsode the GTA, but ultimately it hopes to focus on communities with populations under 10,000.
“Youth from these communities are leaving for the big cities to study and when they finish school, they don’t go back,” said Oliver Pryce, the project’s co-ordinator.
“These communities have all these unmet labour market needs. We are hoping to fill these gaps with newcomers who are willing to relocate and work outside of Greater Toronto.”
The project is the brainchild of the Peel Newcomer Centre and the Ontario Association of Community Futures Development Corporation, a federally-funded group representing 61 rural communities. The employment initiative itself is funded by the Ontario Trillium Foundation.
https://www.thestar.com/news/immigration/2017/03/26/job-program-for-immigrants-aims-to-fill-labour-gaps-outside-gta.html