Expert on precarious employment available to discuss CIBC report on Canada's bleak employment landscape
HAMILTON, March 6, 2015: Wayne Lewchuk, a professor in McMaster's School of Labour Studies, is available to discuss a new report by CIBC that finds job quality in Canada is at a 25-year low.
Lewchuk is recognized as a leading expert in precarious employment. He is the co-director of a five-year joint university-community research program on Poverty and Employment Precarity in Southern Ontario.
"The CIBC report should concern us all. Not only does it suggest that the quality of jobs today is significantly lower than they were in 1988 but all the trends seem to be pointing to further declines, rather than a shift to better times in the labour market," Lewchuk says.
"Of particular concern is that high paying sectors are growing the slowest in terms of the number of new jobs, but this is also the sector where wages are rising the fastest. Low paying sectors have experience the most job growth, but this is also the sector where wages are growing the slowest.
Lewchuk is available for interviews and can be reached directly today at 905-524-1244 and lewchuk@mcmaster.ca
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