Working from home may become the new culture for office worker, but for the lowest-paid, minimum-wage earning working class, this won't be possible. — via healthing_ca
Doctor calls COVID-19 the ultimate discriminator: 'It amplifies the healthcare disparities that already exist.'Working from home may become the new culture for office worker, but for the lowest-paid, minimum-wage earning working class, this won't be possible.Since the start of the novel coronavirus, Canada’s social inequities have been in the spotlight.
From warehouse workers to retail and restaurant workers, those with low-paying, wage-earning, non-unionized jobs have been consistently the most vulnerable to losing their jobs.— two-thirds of Canada’s median hourly wage of $24.04 — have lost their jobs since the start of the shutdown. Meanwhile, the rate of job loss across Canada for all employees is 17.8 per cent.
Now with all eyes on the eventual reopening, there’s fear that rushing people back to work will leave Canada’s lowest-earning working class even more exposed and vulnerable.require workers to be outside the home . In other words, working from home is likely not a possibility for the majority of Canada’s poorest.
“While this shutdown is going on, you’ve got high-income earners who can work from home and can continue getting their paycheques,” says Audrey Laporte, professor and director of the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation (
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