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Leaving work
Leaving work

Leaving work

Date4/7/1982
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Original Toronto Star caption: Leaving work: The federal government's new unemployment insurance regulations; which require laid-off workers to exhaust their severance pay before collecting unemployment insurance; is a misguided policy; says a government employees union president; right.
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ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0018509F
Extra protection: Labor minister Robert Elgie has made proposals to help workers being laid off, like these ones leaving Massey-Ferguson last spring for a long, jobless summer
Extra protection: Labor minister Robert Elgie has made proposals to help workers being laid off, like these ones leaving Massey-Ferguson last spring for a long, jobless summer
5/30/1980
Canadians were bitter, frustrated, sometimes even violent by 1935, when this picture was taken as protest march of unemployed was leaving Scarborough (...)
Canadians were bitter, frustrated, sometimes even violent by 1935, when this picture was taken as protest march of unemployed was leaving Scarborough (...)
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Facing the axe: A de Havilland worker, leaving the Downsview plant yesterday with fellow employees, reacts with a thumbs-down to news of 1,300 layoffs
Facing the axe: A de Havilland worker, leaving the Downsview plant yesterday with fellow employees, reacts with a thumbs-down to news of 1,300 layoffs
10/4/1991
Bad news: Saddened General Tire workers in Barrie reflect during their work break on the announcement of the closing down of their plant next month, a move which will throw almost 900 out of work
Bad news: Saddened General Tire workers in Barrie reflect during their work break on the announcement of the closing down of their plant next month, a move which will throw almost 900 out of work
9/4/1991
Counsellors to the unemployed, Keith Oleksink and Barbara Linds discuss a problem outside the Unemployment Help Centre where they work. The centre hel(...)
Counsellors to the unemployed, Keith Oleksink and Barbara Linds discuss a problem outside the Unemployment Help Centre where they work. The centre hel(...)
3/29/1978
Better prospects: There's more work to be had these days than back in the early 1980s when this young man, unemployed and unskilled, scanned the classified advertisements
Better prospects: There's more work to be had these days than back in the early 1980s when this young man, unemployed and unskilled, scanned the classified advertisements
8/14/1980
With 668,000 Canadians out of work, like these men at the Adelaide St
With 668,000 Canadians out of work, like these men at the Adelaide St
2/10/1971
Needs work: The news . . . says we're out of the recession, carpenter Chris Zarich says
Needs work: The news . . . says we're out of the recession, carpenter Chris Zarich says
9/6/1991
Casuality of legislation?, I don't care who's right and who's wrong, I just want to work, says Andy MacLean, who lost his construction job after rent law was announced
Casuality of legislation?, I don't care who's right and who's wrong, I just want to work, says Andy MacLean, who lost his construction job after rent law was announced
12/13/1990
Hopeful line: A group of people line up in Toronto looking for work
Hopeful line: A group of people line up in Toronto looking for work
1/17/1983
Looking for jobs: Laborers' International Union members lined up for work last summer, a scene becoming more and more common in Metro
Looking for jobs: Laborers' International Union members lined up for work last summer, a scene becoming more and more common in Metro
7/3/1991
Out of work: Christina Kocsis, left, expects layoff in November
Out of work: Christina Kocsis, left, expects layoff in November
9/23/1991