Category Archives: Child Labour BC

New op-ed on MLA candidates and employment standards

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Adrienne Montani, Provincial Coordinator of First Call: BC Child and Youth Advocacy Coalition.

Adrienne Montani, Provincial Coordinator of First Call: BC Child and Youth Advocacy Coalition.

David Fairey, labour economist, a research associate of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives’ BC Office, and Co-Chair of the BC Employment Standards Coalition.

David Fairey, labour economist, a research associate of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives’ BC Office, and Co-Chair of the BC Employment Standards Coalition.

In this week’s Province newspaper, BC Employment Standards Coalition members Adrienne Montani and David Fairey call on MLA candidates in the upcoming by-elections to clarify their parties’ positions on employment standards. They underscore the opportunity for immediate reform in three areas: minimum wages, child protections, and migrant worker rights and protections.

Read the full op-ed here.

 

 

Child Labour is No Accident: The Experience of BC’s Working Children

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During British Columbia Youth Week this past May, First Call BC Child and Youth Advocacy Coalition released a report on child labour in BC. First Call is also a member organization of the BC Employment Standards Coalition.

Their report, “Child Labour is No Accident: The Experience of BC’s Working Children” was an eighteen-month research project funded by The Law Foundation of B.C. Links to the full report and associated documents are available on this page.

 

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.

No Child Labour BC Survey

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No Child Labour BC want to hear from you about your work experience in BC.  They are specifically seeking out people ages 12-18 to participate, but would love to hear from parents and educators as well.  It only takes 5 minutes and participants will be entered to win draw prizes, including and Ipod shuffle.