A by-the-numbers look at flexible work arrangements in Canada
Posted Sep 13, 2016 04:25:12 PM.
Last Updated Sep 13, 2016 05:36:21 PM.
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OTTAWA – The Liberal government is looking at bringing in new rules that would allow federally regulated employees to request changes to how and where do their jobs. Here are a few figures from a federal discussion paper released last month as part of consultations on the proposal:
883,000: Approximate number of federally regulated workers who would be captured by any flexible work rules enacted by the federal government.
11,450: Approximate number of employers in federally regulated industries.
58: Percentage of Canadian employees who reported feeling overloaded in a Canadian Mental Health Association survey.
400,000: Approximate number of indigenous youth who will be old enough to enter the workforce in the coming decade.
36: Percentage of Canadian employees in a 2012 Statistics Canada survey who had flexible work hours to care for a family member.
16: Percentage of women in the 2015 Statistics Canada labour force survey who reported working part-time to care for a child or for family responsibilities.
3: Percentage of men in the same survey who reported working part-time for similar reasons.
60: Percentage of employers in the 2008 federal jurisdiction workplace survey who said they did not provide bereavement leave in the event of the death of an immediate family member.
(Source: Employment and Social Development Canada, “Flexible Work Arrangements: A discussion paper”)
