Labour Market Partners Inc.

Celebrating LMP's 25th anniversary this week. It's been quite a journey! Thanks to our many clients, supporters and especially colleagues who have made a quarter-century of work meaningful and enjoyable. A shout-out to Marianne Seaton, whose partnership made excellence a trademark in our work together. I also gained a lifelong close friend!

A thoughtful, insightful, forward-looking, human-centric analysis and recommendations for post-pandemic labour force development.

Governments Must Fix the Skills Mismatch for a Post-COVID World As COVID-19 widens the gap between supply and demand, countries cannot stop at short-term measures—they must plan strategically for skills in a recovering economy.

Excited to announce a new partnership (with a valued partner from my earliest days of consulting) with the Ontario Municipal Social Services Association (OMSSA). My business partner, Marianne Seaton, and I will be working closely with OMSSA to deliver our newest program, Client-Centric Strategies©. CCS is a virtual education program that addresses modern coaching and problem-solving practices in human services for working with people who may present multiple service challenges. It's competency-based, providing workplace tools for normalizing essential knowledge, skills and supporting behaviours and emphasizes evidence-based strategies for building relationships and working collaboratively to achieve desired results. Here is a link to a more detailed description:

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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/13/us/food-stamps-work-west-virginia.html

Tighter Food Stamp Rules Crowded Soup Kitchens, Not Job Rosters In West Virginia, tougher work requirements for receiving food stamps complicated life for poor people but did not result in increased employment.

Interesting developments in Cali regarding what constitutes an independent contractor for precariously employed workers.

California is cracking down on the gig economy The state Assembly just passed a bill that could give Uber and Lyft drivers basic labor protections for the first time.

This article reminds me of my experiences in the Canadian Arctic, where so many things were novel to my southern perspective.

How Inuit Parents Teach Kids To Control Their Anger At the top of the world, the Inuit culture has developed a sophisticated way to sculpt kids' behavior without yelling or scolding. Could discipline actually be playful?

https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2019/03/04/basic-income-project-improved-lives-but-now-its-back-to-the-food-bank.html

Basic income project improved lives, but ‘now it’s back to the food bank’ | The Star Lives of those in soon-to-end basic income pilot significantly better, report says.

In reverse chronological order, you may note.

Judicial review requested over cancelled basic income pilot | The Star Lawyers in Lindsay ask courts to overturn decision to end research project, throwing participants into limbo.

https://www.thestar.com/news/queenspark/2018/09/14/cancellation-of-ontarios-basic-income-project-sparks-global-outrage.html

Cancellation of Ontario’s basic income project sparks global outrage | The Star Researchers from around the world question ethics of premature killing of pilot in open letter to Ford government.

https://www.thestar.com/politics/provincial/2019/01/22/humans-are-suffering-axing-of-basic-income-pilot-project-leaves-trail-of-broken-dreams.html

‘Humans are suffering’: Axing of basic income pilot project leaves trail of broken dreams | The Star Survey of 6,500 participants reveals struggles of those who embraced chance at a better life.

https://www.citylab.com/equity/2018/12/affordable-daycare-subsidized-child-care-working-mom-quebec/579193/?fbclid=IwAR3LRQ2fGqHuunZu0uiyZAFQf_5g66Ypsan9TzVY5XO4RsN3mAMuZKlUlWw

What Happened After Two Decades of Affordable Child Care in Quebec Moms went back to work.

The moral and ethical failings of cancelling the Basic Income Project, a "social experiment involving humans."

Cancellation of Ontario’s basic income project sparks global outrage | The Star Researchers from around the world question ethics of premature killing of pilot in open letter to Ford government.