Alternate minimum wages BC
Farm Workers and Piece-Rates
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- The Regulatory Exclusion of Agricultural Workers in Alberta.
Barnetson, B. (2009) Just Labour: A Canadian Journal of Work and Society, 14, 1-25.
- Daily Wages and piece rates in agrarian economies.
Bolanda, J., Drezeb, J, & Leriuthe, L. (1999) Journal of Development Economics, 54(2), 445-461. - Fact Sheet #12: Agricultural Employers Under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).
(2008) United States Department of Labor, Wage and Hour Division, 2.
- Eroding Worker Protections: British Columbia’s New ‘Flexible’ Employment Standards.
Fairey, D. (2005) Canadian Center for Policy Alternatives, 1-50.
- Minimum Wages for Hand Harvesting Farm Workers Frozen Again by Employer Friendly BC Government.
Fairey, D. (2012) BC Employment Standards for the Next Decade Coalition, 1-4. - Cultivating Farmworker Rights: Ending the Exploitation of Immigrant and Migrant Farmworkers in BC.
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- Minimum Wages: Issues and Options for Ontario. Ontario Ministry of Finance, 1-43.
Gunderson, M. (2007) Ontario Ministry of Finance, 1-43.
- Hand-harvesters of Fraser Valley Berry Crops: New Era Protection of Vulnerable Employees.
(2004) B.C. Federation of Labour, 1-49. Retrieved from http://www.justicia4migrantworkers.org/bc/pdf/HANDHARVESTERS.pdf - Piece rates and their effects on health and safety – A literature review.
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Leibel, G. (2005) Okanagan University College. - Summary Report: Minimum Government Approved Piece Rate Study. Prepared for the Ministry of Skills, Training and Labour and the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food.
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- Migrant Agricultural Workers and Their Socio-economic, Occupational and Health Conditions – A Literature Review.
Mans, S. et al. (2013) Social Science Research Network, 1-35.
- Seasonal Agricultural Workers in Canada: Understanding the Socio-Political Issues.
Marshall, W.Z. (2015) Western University, 1-38.
- Hand-Harvesters of Fraser Valley Berry Crops: New Era Protection of Vulnerable Employees.
Moore, G. (2004) British Columbia Federation of Labour, 49.
- Worker and Firm Determinants of Piece Rate Variation in an Agricultural Labor Market.
Newman, C., & Jarvis, L. (2000) Economic Development and Cultural Change, 49(1), 237-149. - Wages, Wage Violations, and Pesticide Safety Experienced by Migrant Farmworkers in North Carolina.
Robinson, E. et al. (2011) New Solutions, 21(2), 251-268.
- A Research and Outreach Agenda for Agricultural Workers in California.
Strochlic, R., Rittenhouse, T. (2013) University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources, 1-41.
- Growing Good Agricultural Jobs in British Columbia.
Weiler, A.M., Dennis, J.E., Williams, H. (2015) Working Paper-Good Jobs Economy in BC Conference.
- Review of Regulated Minimum Piece Rates for Agricultural Hand Harvesters in BC: Final Report.
Zbeetnoff, D. (2011) BC Ministry of Labour, Citizens’ Services and Open Government, 1-108.
Liquor Servers
- A Worker-Employer-Customer Triangle: The Case of Tips. Industrial Law Journal 40(2): 181-206.
Albin, E. (2011) Industrial Law Journal, Volume 40, Issue 2, 181–206.
- Twenty-three Years and Still Waiting for Change. Why It’s Time to Give Tipped Workers the Regular Minimum Wage.
Allegretto, S. and Cooper, D. (2014) Economic Policy Institute, Washington, DC. - Tipping as a Tool for Gendered Exploitation in Restaurants: An Analysis on the Impact of the Employment Standards Act for Women Serving in Ontario.
Dobson, L.M. (2014) Carleton University, 1-126.
- Reliance on tipping creates inequity and leaves workers vulnerable.
Fairey, D., Matulewicz, K. (Aug 8, 2016) Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.
- Female servers are vulnerable to sexual harassment on the job: UVIC researcher.
Garcha, N. (Feb 9, 2017) Female servers are vulnerable to sexual harassment on the job: UVIC researcher. Global News.
- Tipping in Restaurants and Around the Globe: An Interdisciplinary Review [Electronic version].
Lynn, M. (2006) Cornell University, School of Hospitality Administration. - Customers, tips, and law: gender and the precariousness of work in BC restaurants.
Matulewicz, K. (2013) University of Victoria Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, 1-25. - Law and the Construction of Institutionalized Sexual Harassment in Restaurants.
Matulewicz, K. (2015) Canadian Journal of Law and Society, 30 (3), 401-419.
- Tipping behaviour in Canadian restaurants.
Maynard, L.J., Mupandawana, M. (2009) International Journal of Hospitality Management, 28(4), 597-603.
- Tipped Out: How Do Gratuities Affect Restaurant Operations?
McAdams, B and von Massow, M. (2017) Journal of Foodservice Business Research 20(4): 432-446.
- Not on the Menu. Inquiry Report on Sexualized and Gender-based Dress Codes in Ontario’s Restaurants.
Ontario Human Rights Commission. (2017)
- Restaurant Employees Factsheet.
(2017) Employment Standards Branch, Government of BC. 1-4. - The Glass Floor. Sexual Harassment in the Restaurant Industry.
Restaurant Opportunities Centers United (ROCU), and Forward Together. (2014)
- Temporary Work in Transnational Labor Regulation: SER-Centrism and the Risk of Exacerbating Gendered Precariousness.
Vosko, L. (2008) Social Indicators Research 88(1): 131-145. - How Far Does the Employment Standards act, 2000, Extend and What are the Gaps in Coverage? An Empirical Analysis of Archival and Statistical Data.
Vokso, L., Noack, A., and Thomas, M. (2016) Queen’s Printer for Ontario. - Minimum Wages and Tipped Servers.
Wessels, W. (1997) Economic Inquiry 35(2): 334-349.
Live-in Caregivers
- Hired as a Caregiver, Demanded as a Housewife – Becoming a Migrant Domestic Workers in Turkey.
Akalin, A. (2007) European Journal of Women’s Studies, 14(3), 209-225.
- Doing the Dirty Work?: The Global Politics of Domestic Labour.
Anderson, B. (2000) Zed Books.
- The Political Economy of Migrant Live-in Caregivers: A Case of Unfree Labour.
Bakan, A., & Stasiulis, D. (2012) In P.T. Lenard & C. Straehle (Eds.). Legislated Inequality: Temporary Labour Migration in Canada (pp. 202-226). Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press. - The missing link: Gender, immigration policy and the Live-in Caregiver Program in Canada.
Brickner, R.K., Straehle, C. (2010) Policy and Society, 29(2010), 309-320. - Caring for BC’s Aging Population: Improving Health Care for All.
Cohen, M. (2012) Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives BC Office. - Support to Isolation: The High Cost of BC’s Declining Hope Support Services.
Cohen, M., McLaren, A., Sharman, Z., et al. (2006) Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.
- Community Health Workers.
(2014) Health Employers Association of BC.
- Current and Forthcoming Minimum Hourly Wage Rates for Young Workers and Specific Occupations.
(2017) Government of Canada. - Federal government tightens live-in caregiver regulations.
(2011) Canadian Medical Association Journal, 183(9), 539-540. - Precarious Migrant Status and Precarious Employment: The Paradox of International Rights for Migrant Workers.
Fudge, J. (2012) Comparative Labor Law & Policy Journal, 34(95), 11-15. - Migrants, Unfree Labour, and the Legal Construction of Domestic Servitude: Migrant Domestic Workers in the UK.
Fudge, J., & K. Strauss. (2014) In C. Costello and M. Freedland (Eds.), Migrants at Work: Immigration & Vulnerability in Labour Law (pp. 160-179). Oxford: Oxford University Press. - Domestic labour and exploitation: The case of the live-in caregiver program in Canada (LCP).
Galerand, E., Gallie, M., Gobeil, J.O. (2015) SAC-PINAY Research Report, 1-51.
- Health employers and Community Bargaining Association Ratify Five-Year Agreement.
(2014) Health Employers Association of BC. - Hire a temporary worker as an in-home caregiver - Overview.
(2017) Employment and Social Development Canada.
- “Unskilled Labour”: Canada’s Live-in Caregiver Program.
Hodge, J. (2006) Undercurrent, 3(2), 60-66.
- Living Wages and Retention of Homecare Workers in San Francisco.
Howes, C. (2005) Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, 44(1), 139-163.
- Caring for the Elderly: The Embodied Labour of Migrant Care Workers in Singapore.
Huang, S., Brenda, S.A.Y., & Mika Toyota. (2012) Global Networks: A Journal of Transnational Affairs, 12(2), 195-215.
- “We don’t do it for the money” … The scale and reasons of poverty-pay among frontline long-term care workers in England.
Hussein, S. (2017) Health & Social Care in the Community, 25(6), 1817-1826.
- Immigration Policy and the Live-in Caregiver Program: The Racialization of Feminized Work in Canada’s Labour Market, an Intersectional Approach.
Krahn, D. (2014) Manitoba Policy Perspectives, 1(1), 48-64. - Home Care Sector in Canada: Economic Problems.
Le Goff, P. (2002) Government of Canada.
- Labour Market Work and Home Care’s Unpaid Caregivers: A Systematic Review of Labor Force Participation Rates, Predictors of Labor Market Withdrawal, and Hours of Work.
Lilly, M.B., Laporte, A., Coyte, P.C. (2007) The Millbank Quarterly, 85(4), 641-690. - Every Voice Counts: Office of the Seniors Advocate Residential Care Survey Provincial Results.
Office of the Seniors Advocate British Columbia. (2017) Victoria, B.C.: British Columbia and Mackenzie.
- Job Satisfaction: Insights from Home Support Care Workers in Three Canadian Jurisdictions.
Panagiotoglou, M., Fancey, P., Keefe, J., & Martin-Matthews, A. (2017) Canadian Journal on Aging-Revue Canadienne Du Vieillissement, 36(1), 1-4.
- Program Requirements for Low-Wage Positions.
(2017) Employment and Social Development Canada. - The Best of Care: Getting It Right for Seniors in British Columbia (Part 2).
(2012) Office of the Ombudsperson. - Associations between Workers’ Health, and Non-Standard Hours and Insecurity: The Case of Home Care Workers in Ontario, Canada.
Zeytinoglu, I.U., Denton, M., Plenderleith, J., & Chowhan, J. (2015) International Journal of Human Resource Management, 26(19), 2503-2522.