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.
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.
