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Human Resources committee The rules that we design for firms and for businesses—which generally have been encouraged, as I said, through the steady increase in globalization, freer trade and more competition—put them in a position where the contracts and the employment arrangements they set out for worker
April 4th, 2019Committee meeting
Colin Busby
Human Resources committee Are these questions for me?
April 4th, 2019Committee meeting
Colin Busby
Human Resources committee I will let the other witness answer.
April 4th, 2019Committee meeting
Colin Busby
Human Resources committee That is an excellent question. In one older report, I pointed out that there were many risks inherent in revising the labour laws. That is obvious, and I was afraid mistakes would be made if people tried to go too far. However, I want to remind you of the message I tried to con
April 4th, 2019Committee meeting
Colin Busby
Human Resources committee Off the top, women tend to have much higher concentrations of part-time work. Part-time work tends to fall into that more precarious category of work because there tends not to be the same amount of income security that you get with a full-time job. Scheduling is often more compl
April 4th, 2019Committee meeting
Colin Busby
Human Resources committee Workers want flexibility. This is what workers want. They want flexibility. Some of the previous speakers mentioned that there is some preference among workers to take on more non-standard forms of employment, which tend to be more precarious, because they want that flexibility.
April 4th, 2019Committee meeting
Colin Busby
Human Resources committee I do want to thank the chair and the committee for inviting me today to discuss with them an important issue: how we can work towards better defining and measuring precarious work, and do so in a way that helps to evaluate and design policies to address it. I want to spend the f
April 4th, 2019Committee meeting
Colin Busby