Thank you for the question, Mr. Chair.
In terms of concern we may have around lack of protections for some of these workers, I think that's one of the issues some of the recent legislative amendments were attempting to tackle. It's saying that workers in more non-standard employment, temporary and part-time employees, for example, can face situations where they don't have the same wage rights, for the sake of argument. Some of the things you look at when you're considering that are equal treatment protections. One of the legislative amendments prohibits an employer from paying an employee a lower rate of wage than another employee if they're doing substantially the same work. Basically, it's saying that if you're a part-time worker and you're sitting beside a full-time worker doing the same job, you should be paid the same wage rate. That's not happening right now.
That's one of the examples. It's looking at other things, such as making sure you have an opportunity to be reimbursed when you have work-related expenses. You look at things like minimum age for hazardous occupations. Through these recent legislative amendments, there was a raising of the minimum age from 17 years to 18 years, and things like that. For employees in more precarious situations, you look at making sure they have labour standards protections at least equivalent to full-time workers, where you can.