Closing the Employment Standards Enforcement Gap: Improving Employment Standards Protections for People in Precarious Jobs is a collaborative research initiative of seven Ontario universities and 16 cross-sectoral partner organizations. Funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), the five-year project seeks to inform effective employment standards enforcement in Ontario.
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- Improving Protections for People in Precarious Jobs – Watch the Panel Discussion May 24, 2018 - On May 3, Closing the Employment Standards Enforcement Gap invited 5 experts from Quebec (Dalia Gesualdi-Fecteau and Guylaine Vallée), the US (Raj Nayak), the UK (Nick Clark), and Australia (Tess Hardy) to discuss employment standards […]
May 3 Panel discussion – Improving Protections for Workers in Precarious Jobs April 11, 2018 - Join us May 3, 2018 @ 7pm Thomas Lounge, Oakham House, Ryerson University, 63 Gould St., Toronto With the recent passage of the Fair Workplaces, Better Jobs Act 2017 and a provincial election coming in June, the […]
Closing the Gap Policy Forum launches An Agenda for Change June 22, 2017 - The Closing the Gap team released its latest report – An Agenda for Change – at a Policy Forum on June 19, 2017. Partners and stakeholders gathered at the Sam Sorbara Auditorium at St. Michael’s […]
Closing the Gap research team presents at the 2017 Congress of the Humanities & Social Sciences May 29, 2017 - The Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences runs from May 27-June 2, 2017 at Ryerson University in Toronto. Researchers from the Closing the Gap project will present six papers in sessions organized by the […]
Closing the Gap student researcher is one of Top 5 Winners of SSHRC Storytellers Challenge May 29, 2017 - Ayesha Mian-Akram, a student researcher working with the Closing the Gap project, has won one of the Top Five awards in the SSHRC Storytellers competition. The competition was held at the 2017 Congress of the […]