If employers are driving this partially as a way of sort of composing a workforce around projects that they have in place right in front of them.... Now we have heard through other previous studies that if we were to touch EI premiums much more, it would constitute a change in the rate structure. There would have to be a new actuarial table established and probably new rates to support flexibility and quicker access to funds.
If employers are driving precarity into the workforce, do they not, therefore, have an obligation to also create the stability that completes that social contract?