{"id":228404,"date":"2018-02-06T17:52:26","date_gmt":"2018-02-06T22:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/policyoptions.irpp.org\/podcast\/a-snapshot-of-precarious-work-in-canada-today-2\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T01:04:42","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T05:04:42","slug":"a-snapshot-of-precarious-work-in-canada-today-2","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/policyoptions.irpp.org\/fr\/podcast\/a-snapshot-of-precarious-work-in-canada-today-2\/","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 &#8220;fourth 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:\/\/policyoptions.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:\/\/policyoptions.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:\/\/policyoptions.irpp.org\/fr\/magazines\/october-2017\/inclusive-growth-in-an-age-of-disruption\/\">&#8220;Inclusive Growth in an Age of Disruption&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The nature of work in Canada is changing. 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Canada\u2019s social architecture, including employment insurance, may no longer be responding adequately to the nonstandard work [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":228388,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","ep_exclude_from_search":false},"categories":[9368,9372],"tags":[8529,9205],"irpp-category":[4266],"section":[],"irpp-tag":[],"class_list":["post-228404","podcast","type-podcast","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcasts-fr","category-recent-stories-fr","tag-unemployment-fr","tag-emploi","irpp-category-travail"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>A snapshot of precarious work in Canada today - Policy Options<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/policyoptions.irpp.org\/fr\/podcast\/a-snapshot-of-precarious-work-in-canada-today-2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"fr_FR\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"A snapshot of precarious work in Canada today - Policy Options\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The nature of work in Canada is changing. 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