Translation of "Norme d'emploi " (French → English) :

If we are to make a contribution, it's to keep the issues alive, to make sure that they have an improved or increased and enhanced appreciation of the complexities of human rights, and to recognize, as David has suggested, that we're very seriously concerned about human rights in all kinds of ways, and that means employment issues and labour standards, whether it's in Dhaka, Bangladesh, and textile workers, employment issues and labour standards in Cambodia or Vietnam, where it's consistently violated in various ways, and, of course, in Burma and China ...[+++], where there continue to be major issues of human rights.

Specifically, we would recommend the reduction of the current qualification requirement for eligibility from its current 910 hours back to 700 hours; a reduction of entrance requirements in low unemployment areas; reconsideration of the eligibility rules from the Employment Insurance Act in order to compensate for women's current inequalities in accessing these benefits, owing to their non-standard employment patterns; consideration of raising the benefit levels for parental leave under the EI Act; and development of an addition within EI to extend coverage to self-employed and non-standard workers, to reflect the changing dynamics.

Development plans must give priority to measures to improve market efficiency, quality and health standards and measures to maintain jobs and create new employment opportunities in rural areas, with due regard for provisions on the protection of the environment.

Yesterday the minister referred to a father in East Montreal who had three jobs, in each of which he worked a 14-hour week, and who will now be covered under the new standards (1420) However, I have the following question. Since according to one of the standards under the new system, someone who quits his job loses all his privileges, will this father from East Montreal, if he quits one of his jobs, meaning he would no longer work 42 hours but 28, qualify for unemployment insurance, and I will let the minister consult his parliamentary secretary who seems to have all the answers.

adjusting, during this period, the number of weeks of insurable employment or the number of hours of insurable employment required for a claimant to qualify for unemployment benefits, so that, by January 5, 2002,

Advocacy groups argued that to combat exploitation in strip clubs more effectively, the government should focus on ensuring health and safety standards in such establishments, investigate conditions in clubs that sponsor foreign exotic dancers, and carefully examine the reasons behind the apparent lack of Canadian women applying for such positions (20) They stated that the government should target exploitation in strip clubs by improving workplace standards in those environments rather than targeting the women who apply for those jobs; the outcome of the government’s approach, they argued, would be to relegate Canadians to the jobs that ...[+++] are considered too exploitative for foreign workers (21)