{"id":191679,"date":"2018-02-06T17:52:26","date_gmt":"2018-02-06T22:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/irpp-policy-options.local\/issues\/a-snapshot-of-precarious-work-in-canada-today\/"},"modified":"2025-04-14T04:33:28","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T08:33:28","slug":"a-snapshot-of-precarious-work-in-canada-today","status":"publish","type":"issues","link":"https:\/\/potestlaunch.irpp.org\/fr\/2018\/02\/a-snapshot-of-precarious-work-in-canada-today\/","title":{"rendered":"A snapshot of precarious work in Canada today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The nature of work in Canada is changing. With the onset of the so-called \u00ab\u00a0fourth industrial revolution\u201d careers are becoming a patchwork of impermanent contracts and \u201cgigs,\u201d which often do not come with the benefits associated with long-term employment. Canada\u2019s social architecture, including employment insurance, may no longer be responding adequately to the nonstandard work so many Canadians are being forced to accept.<\/p>\n<p>In this podcast you can listen to the <a href=\"https:\/\/potestlaunch.irpp.org\/fr\/magazines\/february-2018\/precarious-work-and-the-changing-nature-of-employment\/\">panel discussion recently hosted by <em>Policy Options<\/em><\/a> on the implications of precarious work for Canadians and decision-makers. Francis Fong of Chartered Professional Accountants of Canada, Sunil Johal of the University of Toronto\u2019s Mowat Centre and Wendy Vuyk of the Ontario Centre for Workforce Innovation joined <em>Policy Options<\/em> Editor-in -Chief Jennifer Ditchburn to broach this key policy issue.<\/p>\n<p>Read Francis Fong\u2019s <em>Policy Options<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/potestlaunch.irpp.org\/fr\/magazines\/january-2018\/we-dont-know-the-extent-of-precarious-work\/\">article<\/a> on precarious work.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the <em>Policy Options<\/em> special feature <a href=\"https:\/\/potestlaunch.irpp.org\/fr\/magazines\/october-2017\/inclusive-growth-in-an-age-of-disruption\/\">\u00ab\u00a0Inclusive Growth in an Age of Disruption\u00a0\u00bb<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The nature of work in Canada is changing. With the onset of the so-called \u00ab\u00a0fourth industrial revolution\u201d careers are becoming a patchwork of impermanent contracts and \u201cgigs,\u201d which often do not come with the benefits associated with long-term employment. Canada\u2019s social architecture, including employment insurance, may no longer be responding adequately to the nonstandard work [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":138754,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","ep_exclude_from_search":false},"categories":[9368,9372],"tags":[8529,9205],"article-status":[],"irpp-category":[4258,4266],"section":[6650],"irpp-tag":[],"class_list":["post-191679","issues","type-issues","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcasts-fr","category-recent-stories-fr","tag-unemployment-fr","tag-emploi","irpp-category-labour","irpp-category-travail","section-balados"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>A snapshot of precarious work in Canada today<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A snapshot of precarious work in Canada today\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, 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