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There are no bad jobs, says Flaherty
The Harper Conservatives are signalling they are preparing to get tough with unemployed Canadians who refuse jobs they consider below them or too far away.
Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said Monday new rule changes to define "suitable employment" and "reasonable" efforts at finding work have yet to come down, but as far as he's concerned people should be prepared to take pretty well any available job.
"There is no bad job, the only bad job is not having a job," he told reporters. "I drove a taxi, I refereed hockey. You do what you have to do to make a living."
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I'm all for EI reform, and I can even get behind the "swallow your pride & pull up your bootstraps" idea here, but clearly there are bad jobs out there, worse yet their are employers who simply exploit workers for every ounce of blood they can get.
Yes, we have labour laws and what not that do protect the workers very well... when the employee is aware of them and prepared to use them. But given the choice between feeding your family or picking a fight with your boss over unpaid overtime?