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Job Market and Underemployment

Underemployment: Underemployment reshapes Canadas job market, Opinion March 14, according to The Star. Last year, our society transitioned from well-paying full-time jobs less than 20 per cent of all new jobs , to lower-paying and precarious part time jobs almost 80 per cent of all new jobs . This is not merely troubling, but cause for concern, if not panic and Re: Underemployment reshapes Canadas job market, Opinion March 14 During the 2008 recession, some of my well-employed friends smugly asked, What recession? They would probably say that the trends in todays job market arent troubling at all; they indicate that we are finally realizing the leisure society promised log ago by improved production and technology. This view is delusional. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.