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Economic inequality
Recommendation 2:
Amend the Employment Standards Act to provide all workers, regardless of their employment status (full time, part time, casual) or length of service, with the right to paid sick leave.
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Recommendation 2:
Amend the BC Employment Standards Act to provide all workers, regardless of their employment status (full time, part time, casual) or length of service, with the right to paid sick leave.
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Recommendation 1:
Although the number of seniors living in poverty is small, the poverty rate among seniors has increased over the last twenty years. Single senior women are particularly at risk. A Poverty Reduction Plan for BC, a 2008 report by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA), outlines a comprehensive set of recommendations that BC policy-makers can draw on.
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Recommendation 74:
Allow income assistance recipients to attend post-secondary institutions and retain full assistance benefits and expand the Single Parents Employment Initiative (SPEI) to include higher education.
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Recommendation 107:
All services dealing with Aboriginal and Inuit communities must acknowledge and work to alleviate the underlying social factors that directly contribute to alcohol, drug and solvent use. Additional supports, as identified communities, must be made immediately available until such time as sufficient education, employment/economic base and adequate housing are in place to alleviate those underlying causes. (p.38)
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Recommendation 77:
All levels of governments should ensure their direct and contract employees are paid a living wage.
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Recommendation 5:
Adjust income and disability assistance rates for families with a child with disabilities to recognize the additional costs associated with raising a child with extra support needs.
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Recommendation 5:
Adjust income and disability assistance rates for families with a child with disabilities to recognize the additional costs associated with raising a child with extra support needs.
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Recommendation 5:
Adequate, sustained, and long-term funding to ensure the provision of culturally relevant services to meet the needs of Indigenous women and girls at risk of violence or in contact with the police and justice system, including emergency shelters, court workers, services for survivors of violence and specific programs to assist women and girls who have been trafficked within Canada.
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- Access to justice ,
- Alternative solutions ,
- Courts ,
- Decolonization and Indigenous rights ,
- Discrimination and hate ,
- Economic inequality ,
- Emergency response ,
- Gender-based violence ,
- Human rights system ,
- Indigenous issues in policing and justice ,
- Missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls, Two-Spirit, and LGBTQ2SIA+ people ,
- Policing ,
- Policing and the criminal justice system ,
- Poverty and economic inequality ,
- Public services ,
- Racism ,
- Sexism
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Recommendation 408:
Address the social and economic factors that lead to Indigenous women’s extreme vulnerability to violence
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