Human Resources committee  Again, I think we've had some good suggestions. It can't be just about income or just about part-time or full-time status or permanency. I think a good place to start—or another ingredient to add in, if you will—is the intention of the parties. What are the individuals who are

Human Resources committee  Certainly. Our view is that the sharing economy and the gig economy have come up because of over-regulation. Disrupters have come in and said, “We're going to try it this way.” They're playing in a sandbox of no regulation, and governments are trying to cope. We think the answe

Human Resources committee  They would be, but they don't represent the vast majority of the figures. Based on how our membership breaks out over the economy, we don't have as many sectors of the economy that require partnerships as we do others, so it would be even more vast.

Human Resources committee  I would just add the sidebar that we agree with that approach. Certainly, we're not interested in carving out of legislation, you know, horrendous working conditions for individuals.

Human Resources committee  It's more about respecting the intention of the contract and the intention of the parties. We could do a whole other committee on the resulting conflict that comes out of that when the legislator, or the government, comes in and says, “I don't care that you two decided on an inde

Human Resources committee  I'm so thrilled you asked that question. Now I can share with you that we know that small business owners in Canada—this is 2014 data, so it's probably even more now—spend $9 billion a year on informal training in their own business. So it's not necessarily a lack of training; it

Human Resources committee  Again, that gets back to going to the intention of the party, that if the employer is seeking an independent contractor and the independent contractor wants to be an independent contractor—they don't want to be part-time or full-time permanent—we respect that and make it easy to

Human Resources committee  Typically that is how it happens. We recommend that people sign a formal contract, certainly, that outlines exactly what the length of the contract is, the reimbursement, compensation and so on, all those details, and that it speaks to the intention of the parties that they both

Human Resources committee  I can probably get into further detail on that with a bit of research, but if you go back to my chart on slide 5, you get a sense of that by the percentage of total employment, the number of people who are in part time by reason of what we call“opportunity constraint. In 2016, it

Human Resources committee  You can opt in and out of EI now as a self-employed worker, which we think is important, but that should be expanded to some of the other benefits that you can get under EI, and under taxation, especially when it comes to being an employee or an independent contractor, there need

Human Resources committee  Perhaps I could jump in here. We would agree, and I think this gets to the point that Mr. Fong was making earlier, that if you look at slide 5, the percentage of people who are facing part time due to economic constraints are the people who we should be supporting. We should be t

Human Resources committee  Good morning. Thank you for the opportunity to be here today. You should have our presentation in front of you that I'd like to walk you through in the next few minutes. As many members know, CFIB is a not-for-profit, non-partisan organization that represents more than 110,00

Human Resources committee  Some are coming to realize that experiential learning, if you will, has become sort of an important component, and there is some catch-up being played. The work-integrated learning is similar to that, but the reality is that you go to university for an arts education, an engineer

Human Resources committee  I certainly can provide that. We'll table that detail. We had 6,300 responses to the survey that generated that. It was just in the second half of last year, so it's fairly current. We can even break it out by city, sector, size of business, and the rural-urban split. We'll get y

Human Resources committee  I don't know if we'll be able to get into that detail, but let us take that back and we can get back to you.