youth and work

I don't blog much anymore (that may change at some point), but I thought that a short post on today's Federal budget was in order. Essentially, the Trudeau government has largely adopted, i...

http://www.youthandwork.ca/2017/03/liberals-commit-to-partial-ban-on.html

There have been a couple minor developments in relation to experiential education in Ontario that I thought were worthy of a blog post. This post is going to briefly overview both developmen...

http://www.youthandwork.ca/2016/06/and-now-word-about-experiential.html

I've been really busy with a new project and haven't had a lot of time to blog in the past few months. Hopefully in the new year I'll get back to posting regular pieces. One thing that I wan...

http://www.youthandwork.ca/2015/12/worst-idea-ever.html

This post originally appeared on the Canadian Intern Association website, but it's my analysis and I felt that my readers would appreciate reading it. A French version of the analysis can be...

http://www.youthandwork.ca/2015/10/internships-youth-unemployment-and-2015.html

So it seems that Ryerson University has teamed up with Bell Media to advertise a little back to school wage theft at the Toronto International Film Festival . Last week I came into possess...

http://www.youthandwork.ca/2015/09/why-are-ryerson-university-and-bell.html

So if you haven’t noticed there’s a Federal election campaign on now. I’m going to writing about it from time-to-time in the lead-up to the vote on October 19. I hope that all of my re...

http://www.youthandwork.ca/2015/08/justin-trudeau-truthiness-and-1500hour.html

I rarely write case comments, but thought that it was warranted for the recent superior court decision in Silvera v. Olympia Jewellery Corporation ,  2015 ONSC 3760 (CanLII). It’s a fairly...

http://www.youthandwork.ca/2015/07/precarity-sexual-harassment-and-low.html

Last week the New York Times ran two excellent pieces called "The Price of Nice Nails " and "Perfect Nails, Poisoned Workers ", which document the abuse of nail salon workers in the New York...

http://www.youthandwork.ca/2015/05/is-ontarios-ministry-of-labour-failing.html

Yesterday in the 2015 Federal budget there was language, in the "Modernizing the Canada Labour Code" section , that suggested that the Federal government would be moving to address the lack...

http://www.youthandwork.ca/2015/04/the-federal-government-acts-to-protect.html

Just a quick blog post about some of the speakers who are appearing at the upcoming Spur Festival in Toronto later this week.  Guy Standing , a Professor of Development Studies at the U...

http://www.youthandwork.ca/2015/04/some-cant-miss-talks-at-torontos-spur.html

The Alternative Federal Budget  ("AFB") is being released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives . For the second year, Karen Foster and myself have put together the chapter o...

http://www.youthandwork.ca/2015/03/a-better-deal-for-youth-2015.html

This blog post originally appeared on the Institute for Research on Public Policy's Policy Options blog . It was written as a response to this piece  from Tammy Schirle, a WLU economic pr...

http://www.youthandwork.ca/2015/03/precarious-work-is-real-growing-effects.html

Just a short post. The Medium , the student newspaper at the University of Toronto - Mississauga, interviewed Kathleen Wynne , the Premier of Ontario, this past week and asked her about unpai...

http://www.youthandwork.ca/2015/01/kathleen-wynne-on-unpaid-internships.html

I recently interviewed Mike Mindzak, a Ph.D. candidate at Western , about some research that he's conducting. It turned into an extremely interesting discussion about the state of initial te...

http://www.youthandwork.ca/2014/11/teaching-precarity-and-underemployment.html

Last month I was part of a panel put on by the Institute of Public Administration of Canada, which was entitled "Capitalism and Good Jobs" . I was thrilled to be speaking with Jim Stanford a...

http://www.youthandwork.ca/2014/11/precarity-youth-labour-markets-and.html

Stephen Poloz's suggestion that young workers should work for free has been in the news over the past couple days . My take is that he was recommending that young, unemployed workers gain e...

http://www.youthandwork.ca/2014/11/stephen-polozs-controversial-advice-to.html

This is an op-ed piece that appears in today's Toronto Star . I wrote the piece with Claire Seaborn , President of the Canadian Intern Association , and Joshua Mandryk , Co-Founder of Student...

http://www.youthandwork.ca/2014/10/the-ontario-government-must-take-action.html

Ontario's Ministry of Labour (MOL) has released the results of the inspection blitz targeting employers using unpaid interns in the Greater Toronto Area. The inspection blitz occurred from...

http://www.youthandwork.ca/2014/09/the-results-of-ministry-of-labours.html

Below is a joint press release from the Canadian Intern Association and Students Against Unpaid Internship Scams regarding the tragic death of Adam Keunen, a coop student from the Beamsville...

http://www.youthandwork.ca/2014/09/co-op-students-death-highlights-gaps-in.html

Respect for the little guy seems to be pure lip service in the bizarro world of Ford Nation  (spot the face tattoo). Last month I reported how Rob Ford's now-defunct mayoral campaign was r...

http://www.youthandwork.ca/2014/09/doug-fords-illegal-unpaid-internship.html

I have a few updates to share regarding some recent media appearances, potpourri, upcoming speaking events I'm doing. First off, let's go to the University of Toronto's Varsity newspaper ...

http://www.youthandwork.ca/2014/09/potpourri-speaking-conferences-and-media.html

I recently did an interview with Travis Welowszky , the Editor-in-Chief of London's Openwide magazine , where we discussed youth unemployment, post-secondary education, and unpaid internship...

http://www.youthandwork.ca/2014/09/precarity-unemployment-and-unpaid.html

Rob Ford holds a very dear place in my heart. Back in 2010 the first press that this blog got was for covering the comments of Nick Kouvalis , Rob Ford's then Campaign Manager, who boasted about...

http://www.youthandwork.ca/2014/09/will-work-for-crack-rob-fords-illegal.html

Update: Albert Lee, a public relations staffer with Bell, released this rather cagey statement to the Canadian Press earlier this afternoon: "Bell offers a variety of ways for students, grad...

http://www.youthandwork.ca/2014/08/is-bell-mobilitys-professional.html

This is a guest blog post that I did for Samara Canada on the topic of unpaid labour in the context of Canadian politics. This is the first of two posts examining the growth of unpaid labou...

http://www.youthandwork.ca/2014/08/why-are-canadian-politicians-addicted.html