Dr. Gilberto Fernandes is a Visiting Professor in the Department of History and the Global Labour Research Centre where he leads the project Laborem Ex Machina: The History of Operating Engineers and Heavy Machinery in Canada’s Construction Industry. His research on the history of Portuguese diaspora has been published in multiple journals and in his…

Former Ontario Coalition Against Poverty organizer John Clarke has been appointed as the next Packer Visitor in Social Justice in York University’s Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional studies for a two-year term (terms 2019-20 to 2020-21). Clarke has a lifetime of achievement in organizing the unemployed. Born and raised in a working-class background in…

Check out two important op-eds written by Professors Steven Tufts and Carlo Fanelli on work and labour issues:   https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/2019/09/11/pension-plans-should-not-invest-in-companies-that-harm-working-people.html https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/canada-election-minimum-wage_ca_5d80fbb0e4b00d69059f6611?fbg

York University Professor Leah F. Vosko, of the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, is being recognized for excellence in research by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). She is the recipient of the SSHRC’s prestigious Impact Award (Insight Category). The award was announced on Sept. 4. “York is delighted…

Dr. Kelly Pike, Interim Director of the GLRC, is a member of a team of researchers working on the project ‘Decent Work Regulation in Africa’. A short documentary on their work in Lesotho – Rethabile’s Story – has now gone live. Directed and produced by Dreamscope TV, the documentary is narrated by Rethabile Ratsiu, a…

Check out our new publication – Know Your Rights: Employment Standards (Spring 2019)

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The Closing the Employment Standards Enforcement Gap project based at York University has just released a new report titled An Agenda for Change. Click here to access the report.

More information about the Closing the Employment Standards Enforcement Gap project can be found here: http://closeesgap.ca/