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Arbitraging Free Time

Arbitrage the market for free time by rewarding skill and years of service with more free time rather than with higher annual incomes.

A Work Spreading Tax - David Chapman

Change the method of collecting all tax on the income of employees, in such a way as to use the degree of progressivity which already exists in the tax system, in order to provide a per-head labour subsidy, without cost in terms of extra tax.

What Governments Can Do - Bruce O'Hara

Five policy directions governments in Canada could pursue if they were serious about reducing unemployment.

Hours of Work: Moving Beyond Gridlock

Not only is the overtime premium ("time and a half") ineffective in discouraging regularly scheduled overtime, it is now producing an effect opposite to its intent.

Close the Overtime Loophole!

Remove the ceiling on the employers' portion of federal payroll taxes (CPP/QPP AND EI). Lower the overall rate to make the change revenue neutral.

A Day in the Life of a Policy Scavenger

Policy scavenging might offer a promising way out of the dilemma of wanting to do too much all at once and not knowing where to start. The starting point can be some neglected but useful item, perhaps half buried in the policy heap.

Lost Time: Time, Work and Family

Family incomes are being squeezed in the 1990s. To the extent that they are being maintained it has been at a cost -- the lost time with partners, children, friends and in the community.

The Case for Shorter Work Time - Bruce O'Hara

If we continue to try to combine the technology of the 1990s and the family structure of the 1990s with the workweek of the 1940s, the result will be not leisure, but more and more unemployment, and an economy which staggers from one recession to the next.

Business and Labour: Missing the Point?

Who says that an improvement in our lives has to be a panacea before it qualifies as something worth doing?

A Re-Election Strategy - Bruce O'Hara

Imagine being able to go back to the electorate and say: "We balanced the budget. We balanced the budget not by closing schools, hospitals, or courthouses, but by putting tens of thousands of British Columbians back to work.

Canadians' Views on Working Time?

Governments and corporations (is that redundant?) are SCARED TO DEATH of the issue of shorter work time. They are utterly and unyieldingly opposed to reducing work time but at the same time they are unwillingly to be frank about their hostility.

TimeWork Research Prospectus

Social critics and government task forces alike have suggested that reducing the working hours of full-time employees and redistributing work could be at least a partial solution to chronic widespread unemployment and employment imbalances.

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Online: June 29, 1995. Latest Revision: May 26,1998
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