The Positive Influences Of Precarious Work In Canada

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Positive influences of precarious work:
However, there are both sides to a coin and so far only one side has been looked at. Some countries like Singapore and Canada have policies that allow women especially to move from various countries to their country to work as house helpers or live-in caregivers (Atanackovic, 2014). Canada’s programs like the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program (SAWP) and Live-in Caregiver Program (LCP) in Canada is highly successful as it allow workers to be paid a fair sum and not the minimum wage while heling the country in their production. However there are certain limits to these programs as the workers are only allowed to applied once and work for a few years before having to return to their home country as

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