Author: Canada Employment and Immigration Advisory Council

Publisher: The Council

Published: 1987

Total Pages: 140

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Through an analysis of relevant characteristics of the wage-earner, both in the family environment and theworkplace, this report studies the social and economic realities facingworkers with family responsibilities, and how attitudes are changing thatregardmen as the sole income-earners and women as child raisers and home-makers, and discusses problems such as worker productivity, job retention and prospects for advancement, caused by absenteeism of a parent dealing withfamily responsibilities. Other issues addressed include discrimination interms of job availability and wage disparities that impose further economicburdens, inflexible hours, and stress-related problems of drug and alcoholabuse, child and elederly parent abuse and withdrawal of responsibilitytowards a spouse leading to higher divorce rates which in turn lead tofurther financial burdens and in some cases lower birth rates. Also discusses issues of labour/employment standards, unemployment insurance, federal taxation, training, alternative work patterns, employee assistanceprograms, national child, elder and dependent care.