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Caught in the Net: The Impact of Changes to Canadian Employment Insurance Legislation on Part-time Workers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 2003

Norene Pupo  and
Ann Duffy
Norene Pupo
Affiliation:
Dept. of Sociology, York University, Toronto, Ontario E-mail: [email protected]
Ann Duffy
Affiliation:
Dept. of Sociology, Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario
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Abstract

Throughout Western highly industrialised countries, there has been a marked shift toward more conservative social policies signalling a dismantling of the welfare state as part of the process of globalisation. This paper examines the aetiology of the (un)employment insurance programme in the Canadian context. Recently, legislators have tightened eligibility rules, lowered earnings replacement rates and altered coverage requirements. While these changes signal a shredding of the social safety net, they differentially impact on certain segments of the population. Despite official pronouncements of fairness, employment insurance changes intensify the subordination women experience in the paid labour force.

Type
Research Article
Information
Social Policy and Society , Volume 2 , Issue 1 , January 2003 , pp. 1 - 11
Copyright
© 2003 Cambridge University Press

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