Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) - CORRECT
ANSWER - employment protection in canada
- guidelines set standards for responsible business conduct across a range of issues
such as human rights, labour rights, and the environment
why are working conditions important in sdoh? - CORRECT ANSWER - great
amount of time spent in workplace
- people already vulnerable are most likely to experience health threatening work
conditions
,key work dimensions shaping health outcomes - CORRECT ANSWER - job strain;
effort-reward imbalance; organizational justice; work hours; status inconsistency;
precarious work
precarious employment - CORRECT ANSWER - work is uncertain, insecure &
unstable
- insecurity exists across various dimensions of work, and social & economic
vulnerability
- more than 1 in 5 canadian professions have precarious jobs
labour market today - CORRECT ANSWER - careers related to the development of
projects (consultant, project management, coordinator)
- work in several jobs over the course of a lifetime
- creates "boundary less" (nomadic/unstable) careers vs. "vertical ladder" careers
boundeyless career - CORRECT ANSWER often represents tech/knowledge
economy: mobile work, networks and virtual communities of practice
traditional career - CORRECT ANSWER Represents industrial work - one stop shop,
first job/last job, climbing the vertical ladder
, boundaryless career - CORRECT ANSWER - more "flexibility" in jobs and self-
employment
- false sense of self-employment
- precarious work (lack of stability, permanence and/or benefits)
- new classifications of employment statuses (casual, contract, temporary, reduced-
time, part-time, etc.) - "gig" economy
unemployment rate - CORRECT ANSWER number of people in the labour force
(15-64 yrs.) actively looking for a job
employment - CORRECT ANSWER employed divided by total labour force
precariat - CORRECT ANSWER insecure ( precarious) working class (proletariat)
security - CORRECT ANSWER control
job security - CORRECT ANSWER enables economic + social inclusion
income security - CORRECT ANSWER economic inclusion
- critique: undereducated/impoverished women might leave labour force; stigma of
basic income
intersectionality - CORRECT ANSWER the interconnected nature of social
categorizations such as race, class, and gender as they apply to a given individual
or group, regarded as creating overlapping and interdependent systems of
discrimination or disadvantage
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