Labour Administration in Canada (Ontario)
This report is one of a series of reports being prepared for the International Labour Office as part of a comparative study of labour administration in 30 countries. Input from this and other reports are being used as a basis for the more general and comparative study which aims to identify institutional arrangements and best practices for labour administration internationally. The labour administration system in Ontario has undergone important changes in recent years. These result both from specific changes in labour policy and from an overhaul of government administration more generally. On all counts, Ontario is an interesting and important subject for an international labour administration study.
Evidence that a large part of the working population in developing countries
work outside the parameters established by labour and fiscal laws, and that part of
the services and goods produced in industrialized countries are produced
clandestinely, has made the informal economy the focus of attention of economic
and labour policies. Despite the fact that the informal economy is of universal
concern nowadays, the definitions used, the ideas traded, the perception of the
phenomenon, its consequences and the solutions proposed to remedy the associated
problems are not the same in all parts of the world. Furthermore, a great difference
can be seen between the perception and treatment of informality in developing
countries and that in the highly industrialized countries.
work outside the parameters established by labour and fiscal laws, and that part of
the services and goods produced in industrialized countries are produced
clandestinely, has made the informal economy the focus of attention of economic
and labour policies. Despite the fact that the informal economy is of universal
concern nowadays, the definitions used, the ideas traded, the perception of the
phenomenon, its consequences and the solutions proposed to remedy the associated
problems are not the same in all parts of the world. Furthermore, a great difference
can be seen between the perception and treatment of informality in developing
countries and that in the highly industrialized countries.