'Precarious employment' on rise: study

Ideas bandied around to deal with the growing phenomenon of precarious employment include strengthening social agencies, providing a precarious employment supplement to workers and establishing a national child-care strategy. Those ideas came out of a forum held Thursday night to hear the authors of Poverty and Employment Precarity in Southern Ontario, a $1-million, five-year study that began in 2009 and includes interviews with 4,000 workers, ages 25 to 65, in the Hamilton/ Greater Toronto Area...