Precarious employment has become more common in the Canadian labour market, as well as in the labour markets of other high-income countries. In this presentation, Dr. Faraz Vahid Shahidi examines the consequences of precarious employment for health and safety at work. Drawing on compensation claims data from the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board and labour force estimates from Statistics Canada, Dr. Shahidi asks whether workers exposed to precarious employment – such as temporary, part-time, and low-wage jobs – are more likely to experience an occupational injury or illness. As a further source of evidence, he also assesses the impact of precarious employment on the workplace transmission of COVID-19.
Is precarious employment an occupational hazard?
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Online
Faraz Vahid Shahidi
Institute for Work & Health
About presenter
Dr. Faraz Vahid Shahidi is an associate scientist at the Institute for Work & Health. He is a social epidemiologist by training whose research aims to understand how societal conditions, such as the nature and organization of work, shape the health and safety of working people.
About IWH Speaker Series
The IWH Speaker Series brings you the latest findings from work and health researchers from the Institute for Work & Health (IWH) and beyond. For those unable to attend, the recorded webinar of most presentations in the IWH Speaker Series are made available on its web page within a week of the event.
