Security Challenges for Precarious Home-Based Care Workers
The presentation explores the vulnerabilities faced by workers in the home-based care sector, addressing issues like gender, race, migrant status, and more. It delves into policy development, income inequality, and diverse employment arrangements impacting workers' rights. The focus is on understanding and improving conditions for these vulnerable workers.
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Building Security for Precarious Workers in the Home-Based Care Sector Fay Faraday Law, Work and Family Care Symposium February 2017
Precarity at the Intersections Work Law Family
Precarity at the Intersections Gender Work Law Family
Precarity at the Intersections Race Gender Work Family Law
Precarity at the Intersections Migrant Status Gender Race Family Work Law
Precarity at the Intersections Work Family Gender Race Law Migrant Status
Policy Development in Silos FEDERAL PROVINCIAL PROVINCIAL Temporary Foreign Worker Program Review Changing Workplaces Review Gender Wage Gap Steering Committee
Austerity Income inequality Flexibility PAY GAP & PRECARITY Under- valued caring work Decline of Unions
Sectors Childcare Health and Elder Care Care for People with Disabilities
Meeting the Needs of Vulnerable Workers (1993) A legislative strategy that seeks to promote decent wages and working conditions for workers in these sectors can only succeed if it addresses the structural basis for this profound inequality in bargaining power. - Intercede and ILGWU
WHAT DO EMPLOYMENT RELATIONSHIPS ACTUALLY LOOK LIKE?
Multiplicity of Employment Arrangements Publicly-funded care through an institutional facility for a certain period of time (FT, PT, Permanent, Casual, Agency) Caregivers employed by an agency Caregivers hired directly by families Caregiver as an independent business or in/dependent contractor (i.e. home daycare centres)
WHAT DOES IT LOOK LIKE FROM THE WORKER S PERSPECTIVE?
Fissured Workplace and Fragmented Work Multiple job holding Multiple kinds of employment relationship simultaneously Employed directly by the family Employed through an agency Caring for multiple families in multiple locations Employed FT, PT or Casual by an institutional care setting for part of the day (including privately hired by family to provide care at the institution)
WHAT ARE THE STRUCTURAL BARRIERS TO DECENT WORK?
Barriers to Decent Work Statutory exclusions Statutory restrictions migrant and undocumented caregivers Highly personalized employment relationship Gender and race discrimination Inaccessibility of the right to strike Complexity of employment relationships Fragmented and precarious work rhythms Lack of pro-active enforcement
Building power from the ground up Gender and equity based analysis in policy development Broader-based bargaining that supports organizing, bargaining and representation Strong floor of substantive rights Security of permanent immigration status Robust rights enforcement and labour inspection practices Sectoral/portable benefits strategy to build social security and group benefits coverage and entitlement
