The fastest growing jobs in the economic recovery are term or contract, not permanent, with health care among the sectors that are leading this change in employment status.
Armine Yalnizyan writes in “The Temporary Recovery” that “the current shift towards increasingly temporary and impermanent employment injects a new uncertainty into the macro-environment.” She warns that such instability may affect economic recovery: “Without lasting jobs at decent incomes, it won’t take much to topple the whole house of cards once more.”
To view her full article on the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives website, go to:
http://www.policyalternatives.ca/publications/commentary/temporary-recovery
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