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ACTEW has re-launched a more robust fact sheet focusing on contingent workers. Compiling research from multiple sources, we’ve found research that documents the rise of contingent work in Canada. Research demonstrates that contingent workers are paid less, less protected by employment and labour laws and policies, and have less access to work or government benefits. Some key highlights include:

• Contingent employment increased dramatically in the early 1990s.  Currently almost one-third of Canadian workers are employed contingently with higher rates in some areas, like Toronto.
• Women working part-time made up 27% of the total Canadian workforce in 2004. In comparison, part-time male employees made up 11% of the workforce.
• women of colour are the least likely to be employed all year and have the fewest weeks of employment per year.

The fact sheet offers research on different kinds of contingent work.  Read the fact sheet online or download a pdf version.

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