Document Type

Article

Publication Date

9-2018

Department

Social Justice and Community Engagement

Department

Social Justice and Community Engagement

Abstract

This research aims to explore the potential impact of changes in Ontario labour legislation on newcomer women in the workforce, particularly with the changes to both the Employment Standards Act, 2000 and the Labour Relations Act, 1995, under the 2017 legislation of the Fair Workplaces, Better Jobs Act (Bill 148). The research stems from the concern that newcomer women are overrepresented in low wage, temporary, precarious employment, and is informed by studies about the issues newcomer women face in finding stable, secure employment, and the societal forces involved in shaping policy intended to address those issues. The purpose of the study is to uncover ways in which provincial policy can be redirected and improved such that it begins to dismantle contemporary racialized and gendered patterns of workforce participation in Ontario. The analysis of the legislative changes will be framed by a social reproduction feminist perspective, which emphasizes the significance of low-wage and unpaid care work as central to a market economy, and which sees the state as helping to organize the workforce along intersecting gendered and racialized lines.

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