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Employment-related geographical mobility in the Canadian context ● La mobilité
géographique pour le travail dans le contexte canadien


ON THE MOVE PARTNERSHIP

Mobility for work is not new, but it is changing.

Across the world a wide range of people are mobile for work – women and men,
citizens and temporary foreign workers, new workers and those near retirement.
From hours-long daily commutes, to travel that takes workers away from home for
days, weeks, months and even years; from mobility within work (truck driving,
shipping and others) to mobility to get to and from work; from cars and buses,
to trains, ships and planes; from highly-paid top executive jobs, to
minimum-wage service jobs; from natural resource dependent industry to natural
wonder dependent tourism – the types of mobility are many and changing.

The On the Move Partnership is a multi-year national scale research program with
international links, investigating employment-related geographical mobility and
its consequences for workers, families, employers, communities, and Canadian
municipal, provincial and federal governments.


PARTENARIAT EN MOUVEMENT

La mobilité pour le travail n’est pas nouvelle, mais elle est en évolution.

À travers le monde, une vaste gamme de personnes se déplacent dans le contexte
de leur travail: femmes et hommes, citoyennes et citoyens, travailleuses
étrangères temporaires et travailleurs étrangers temporaires, nouvelles
travailleuses et nouveaux travailleurs, ainsi que celles et ceux approchant la
retraite. Des longues heures passées quotidiennement à faire la navette jusqu’au
travail, aux emplois qui éloignent les personnes qui travaillent loin de leur
domicile pendant des jours, des semaines, des mois et même des années; des
voitures et des bus, aux trains, bateaux et avions; des postes bien rémunérés de
hauts dirigeants, aux emplois tertiaires gagnant le salaire minimum; de
l’industrie dépendante des ressources naturelles, à l’industrie touristique
dépendant des merveilles naturelles – la gamme de la mobilité géographique pour
le travail est large et dynamique.

Le partenariat en mouvement est une étude de recherche d’une durée de 7 ans avec
des liens internationaux. Cette étude de recherche examine la gamme complète des
situations de mobilité géographique pour le travail et ses conséquences pour les
personnes qui travaillent, leurs familles, les employeurs, les communautés et
les paliers municipaux, provinciaux et fédéral du gouvernement canadien.



Over the past few weeks, COVID-19 has drastically disrupted everything from the
global economy to everyday life. Key features of the pandemic include its
impacts on the world of work. For the past 8 years, the On the Move Partnership
has been studying the mobile labour force, the estimated 16% of the Canadian
labour force that engages in extended/complex mobility to and within work.
Constraining and managing mobility of all kinds is a core feature of pandemic
response. Politicians and chief medical officers tell us on a daily basis to go
home and stay home. The result has been massive layoffs and widespread
unemployment, as well as an increase in working from home, primarily among white
collar workers. The mobile labour force is partially comprised of millions of
transportation, health, agricultural, construction and other types of workers
whose work is deemed essential and who are thus still on the move. In Canada and
elsewhere, pandemic planning initially paid little attention to these workers.
The result was often serious effects of travel bans, boundary closures and
quarantine requirements, coupled with lack of attention to their risk of
infection on their lives, their health and their ability to get to and do their
jobs. More recently, a series of post hoc initiatives have been taken intended
to, on the one hand, allow workers deemed essential to moving goods and people,
providing essential care and sustaining infrastructure, to keep moving while, on
the other hand, minimizing the risk their mobilities pose to themselves, other
workers, and particularly to clients and the general public.

We have argued since the beginning of On the Move that greater understanding of
how extended/complex mobility for work affects workers and their families,
employers, source and hub communities is essential to Canadian and indeed global
prosperity. It is also essential to ensuring effective pandemic planning and
management that is also just in that it does not unnecessarily threaten the
lives and livelihoods of these workers, their families and their communities.

It is in this context that we are launching our COVID-19 and the Mobile Labour
Force series. The series begins with a working paper that brings together
insights from relevant media coverage with insights from On the Move research
across multiple sectors and groups to highlight key developments and issues and
to be used as a resource for future work. This working paper is linked to a
series of blogs done by On the Move co-investigators and others and focused on
particular sectors and issues.

The series includes:

● Mobility in a Pandemic: COVID-19 and the Mobile Labour Force, Working Paper,
by Barbara Neis, Lesley Butler, Kerri Neil, and Katherine Lippel
● COVID-19 and the Mobile Labour Force by Barbara Neis, Kerri Neil, and
Katherine Lippel, in Routed magazine
● How COVID-19 Has Impacted Offshore Workers in Norway by Marit Aure
● COVID-19 and Coastal Fishing Communities by Gale Burford
● COVID-19 and (Im)Mobile Workers in Alberta’s ‘Essential’ Oil Industry by Sara
Dorow
● The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Canadian Truck Drivers by Natasha
Hanson and Kerri Neil
● COVID-19 and the Plight of Informal Cross Border Traders in Zimbabwe: Working
Paper by Denboy Kudejira
● COVID-19 and the Plight of Informal Cross Border Traders in Zimbabwe: Summary
by Denboy Kudejira
● Temporary and Precarious Migration Status and the Experience of the Pandemic
in Canada’s Health Care Sector: Emerging Themes by Shiva Nourpanah and Kerri
Neil
● A Virus That Doesn’t Discriminate? by Stephanie Premji
● People Who Carry Food and Fuel for the World are Trapped at Sea: A Crewing
Crisis in the Context of COVID-19 by Desai Shan
● Stranded at Sea in the COVID-19 Crisis by Desai Shan
● Walking the Empty City: Feminist Reflections on Life Suspended under COVID -19
by Deatra Walsh


ON THE GO

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Tribute/Homage to Katherine Lippel

Katherine Lippel, Distinguished Research Chair in Occupational Health and Safety
Law at the University of Ottawa and leader of the policy component of the On the
Move Partnership, passed away peacefully on September 23, 2021 at the age of 67.
This tribute/homage to Katherine by her colleagues and friends, seeks to honor
her and to convey our deep respect for, and gratitude to, this outstanding
colleague, friend and mentor who sadly has left us too soon.

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Set in Motion: A Documentary by Lian Morrison



With partial support from the On the Move Partnership, Set in Motion follows
three women involved in the mobile workforce in Newfoundland and Labrador.
Directed by Lian Morrison, the documentary is part of CBC’s Absolutely Canadian
series. Watch it on CBC TV and CBC Gem, October 2 at 8:30 p.m. Read more about
this project here.

Exit Zero: On the Road with Newfoundland’s Migrant Workers



The Exit Zero Project, created in collaboration with On the Move, is a
documentary project by photojournalist Greg Locke that explores the long and
complex history of Newfoundland’s migrant workforce. This project brings
together results from more than ten years of research and includes text, audio,
photojournalism, documentary film, and archival material. Exit Zero is a term
that refers to either the first or last ramp on a highway interchange — a
fitting metaphor for the movement of workers to and from Newfoundland. Visit the
website here.

World Congress on Health and Safety at Work 2020 – Special Session on COVID-19 &
OSH



On the Move researcher Katherine Lippel took part in Panel 1: Innovations in
Addressing COVID-19. The recordings are available here.

 

 

Interjurisdictional Employment in Canada, 2002 – 2016

A new report by Kerri Neil and Barbara Neis that provides a descriptive summary
of Statistics Canada data for IJE between Canadian jurisdictions for the period
2002 to 2016.  The dataset used used for the report is available in French and
English here

Opening New Doors: An Interview with the CDC/NIOSH Center for Work and Fatigue
Research Coordinator Imelda Wong

In this interview, we talk to Imelda Wong about her research projects including
identifying determinants of fatigued driving among Oil and Gas Extraction
workers, workplace fatigue for healthcare professionals in the pandemic, and the
newly created Center for Work and Fatigue Research. Read the full interview
here.

The Last Generation

This film takes us back to a period when CN was a dominant force in Newfoundland
and Labrador, providing significant employment and key transportation and
communication services throughout the province. The compelling story of CN, its
closure, and the aftermath is told by members of the St. John’s Branch of the CN
Pensioners’ Association. Watch it here.

Mental Health in the Construction Industry.

In this article recently published in Labour and Industry, authors Barbara Neis
and Kerri Neil interview Australia’s MATES in Construction CEO, Jorgen
Gullestrup. Gullestrup shares how the high suicide rate of rotational workers
inspired the MATES program and how it works in practice to ensure that all
workers on site feel supported and are able to access mental health resources.
Read the full article here.

Webinar on Return to Work and Mental Health


On August 27, from 2-4 pm EDT, join the “Policy and Practice in Return to Work
after a Work Injury: Challenging Circumstances and Innovative Solutions”
research program for a Webinar presenting two guides on how to support return to
work of employees who experienced mental health problems. With presentations by
Dr. Louise St-Arnaud and Dr. Ellen MacEachen. For more information and to
register, visit their website here.

Sur les traces d’un cas de Covid-19 à Terre-Neuve – Le Partenariat On the Move
est On the Go

“If there were more work and the better pay, sure at home they would stay (…)
Must will return if they could don’t you know, but they’re busted.” This blog by
Jacinthe Tremblay considers Newfoundland through a mobility lens, reviewing why
so many Newfoundlanders work away, where they work, and the impact it has on
them. Read the full piece here.

COVID-19 and Canada’s Mobile Labour Force in Routed


How are TFWs impacted by COVID? What about truck drivers or fly-in, fly-out
workers? Incorporating blogs and the working paper from OTM’s COVID-19 and the
Mobile Labour Force series, this new article by Barbara Neis, Kerri Neil, and
Katherine Lippel in Routed magazine reviews some of the effects of COVID-19 on
mobile workers in Canada and how these workers can be better cared for in the
pandemic. Read the full article here.


CONTACT

On the Move Partnership
202 Elizabeth Avenue
Memorial University of Newfoundland
St. John’s, NL, A1C 5S7
709-864-7551
bneis@mun.ca


FUNDING

The On the Move Partnership is a project of the SafetyNet Centre for
Occupational Health & Safety Research at Memorial University. On the Move is
supported by funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of
Canada, InnovateNL, Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, the Canada
Foundation for Innovation and numerous universities and partners.


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