Going from Student to Staff: Issues facing young workers in 2021 (SLI 2021)

What does good work look like for your students in 2021? Whether they are continuing on to post-secondary learning or heading straight into the workforce, young workers are vulnerable to exploitation and may find themselves with limited options. In this session, expert employment lawyers Joshua Mandryk (Goldblatt Partners LLP) and Ryan White (Cavalluzzo LLP) explore two of the most pressing topics facing young people in workplace law: unpaid internships and work-credit programs, and the uncertain rules around Uber and other “gig apps.”
Learn about developments in the law, organizing efforts around these issues, and resources for your students.
0:00 - Beginning of webinar
2:10 - Land acknowledgement
5:17 - Introduction to unpaid internships, work-credit programs, and youth labour
8:15 - The rise of unpaid internships and work-credit programs
9:30 - The trouble with unpaid internships and work-credit programs
12:37 - Regulation
13:33 - Youth response
15:35 - Legislative changes
18:08 - Where are we now?
20:12 - High school co-op placements and volunteer requirements
23:49 - Post-secondary co-op placements
26:06 - Professional student exemptions, volunteer misclassification
28:35 - Enforcement
30:50 - What you can do to help young workers
37:00 - Introduction to the gig economy
41:21 - The platform economy is not new and is expanding
48:42 - What is the gig economy
50:40 - The effects of misclassification
55:45 - Gig workers are fighting back
56:55 - Platform employers are fighting back too
58:24 - Closing thoughts
1:04:34 - The push for the contractor-plus classification
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