The BC Employment Standards Coalition is made up of diverse organizations and individuals who have come together to develop and advocate for model legislation that will modernize the BC Employment Standards Act. We are working to reverse the negative changes that have happened to the employment standards system over the past decade, increasing the vulnerability of workers to worsening conditions of employment and unchecked employer abuse.
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Which province has the lowest working age for children in the industrialized world?
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Coalition members Marjorie Griffin Cohen and David Fairey wrote a piece for The Tyee this week about the impact of rollbacks affecting workers’ rights since 2001. In Why BC’s Lower-wage Workers are Struggling, they highlight some of the most critical changes to the BC Employment Standards Act affecting employee rights and protections, along with curtailment enforcement of the Act. They also note that BC has Canada’s largest income gap, highest cost of living, highest poverty rate, and the youngest children’s working age in the industrialized world.
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