Human Resources committee  I guess I'd focus on the word “side”, because somebody could be part of the gig economy when they're doing several gigs in order to survive. If it's a side thing.... I think Monique Moreau used the term “passion”. If it's a passionate thing where you're doing something because yo

Human Resources committee  I'm sorry. I don't have all the answers to that. One of the things is certainly training and retraining people to get into other areas. It depends on what other factors there are. Some of the factors that Allyson Schmidt mentioned are really key and they're very real inasmuch as

Human Resources committee  Yes, I certainly suggest it be in high school, as well as in colleges and universities. It should be in all of high school, but once you get to college or university and you're taking a program in arts, there should be an entrepreneurship component in there. It is essentially jus

Human Resources committee  Exactly.

Human Resources committee  One of the things that we've talked about is kind of like what Mr. Vaughan talked about, not so much accommodating but preparing people for precarious employment, and that is providing training in entrepreneurship. One of the things I noticed in the budget, and which is a really

Human Resources committee  It's also about the different aspects of precariousness. Some of it is temporariness. Some of it is low income. As was mentioned earlier—

Human Resources committee  I think you raise two points. One is that precariousness is not necessarily a bad thing. For a lot of people, it's what they like. As has been pointed out, it's also a good avenue to enter either a workplace or a career. I would say a lot of jobs are precarious, with all due resp

Human Resources committee  —our key examples of precarious workers. I'm not commenting on how precarious, but by definition you take on four-year contracts and then you try again for your contract to be extended. I guess I'll make one point, which is to say that rather than trying to define it, I will say

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