SOCI2323 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Disclose
March 15th, 2018
Ongoing controversies:
For Canadian employers
-need for flexible, lower cost workers
-need to address labour shortages (e.g. seasonal work in seafood processing)
For Canadian workers
-access to jobs
-downward pressure on wages, working conditions
-use of IMP to circumvent LMIA requirements
For TFWs (particularly low skill)
-access to work and opportunity to send money home (remittances), but heightened
labour insecurity, and vulnerability to exploitation (pay, working conditions, housing_
given pressures not to complain.
For “Canada”
-divisiveness
-shift away from tradition of providing those who come to work with opportunity to
access rights and responsibilities of citizenship
Example of factory on deer island: would they even have enough employees if not for
temporary foreign employees? Would young Canadians move out to deer island to work? If
some would, would there be enough people willing to keep the plant running efficiently enough
to stay in business?
Inequalities and differences: invisible differences
Invisible differences- characteristics that must be revealed, disclosed, declared to become
apparent (i.e. are not visible) such as marital/family status, sexual orientation, some forms of
illness and disability…
To disclose or not to disclose:
Don’t disclose?
Disclose?
-right to privacy
-fear of stigmatization
-fear of discrimination
-pass/cover as options
-need for appropriate accommodations (if
someone has hearing problems, an employer
may make changes to accommodate)
-authenticity (being true to oneself, avoiding
living in a lie)
-model for change (by disclosing their
difference, they can present themselves as a
force for change of attitudes of others)
Document Summary
Need to address labour shortages (e. g. seasonal work in seafood processing) Access to work and opportunity to send money home (remittances), but heightened labour insecurity, and vulnerability to exploitation (pay, working conditions, housing_ given pressures not to complain. Shift away from tradition of providing those who come to work with opportunity to access rights and responsibilities of citizenship. Invisible differences- characteristics that must be revealed, disclosed, declared to become apparent (i. e. are not visible) such as marital/family status, sexual orientation, some forms of illness and disability . Need for appropriate accommodations (if someone has hearing problems, an employer may make changes to accommodate) Authenticity (being true to oneself, avoiding living in a lie)
