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Job Sharing and Unemployment

86.6 Job Sharing and Unemployment

Whereas:

  • There has been reluctance on the part of some employers to accept job sharing as an employment option;
  • Job sharing is an employment option which would be attractive to a number of people at different times in their life cycle to meet specific career and personal needs; and,
  • Information about job sharing and how to establish a job sharing situation is not readily available; therefore be it,

RESOLVED, That The National Council of Women of Canada urge the Government of Canada to:

  1. Develop a policy on job sharing within the federal government and its Crown corporations.
  2. Implement, wherever possible, requests for job sharing with pro-rated fringe benefits, at all levels in the federal Public Service.
  3. Encourage business to adopt a similar policy with respect to job sharing.
  4. Develop through Labour Canada an information package on job sharing.
  5. Adapt the Canada Labour Code and taxation regulations to accommodate job sharing; and further,

RESOLVED, That The National Council of Women of Canada urge the Provincial and Local Councils of Women to urge their respective governments to implement requests for job sharing, with pro-rated fringe benefits, within their jurisdictions.