Minimum wages and universal basic income

[danbrotherston]

Do you happen to know what are typical hours? I mean are they working 2 or 3 jobs at 15 hours each to get something like full time, or are they basically working multiple full-time jobs?

If they are stringing together multiple part-time jobs then allowing each to hold only a single job is an obvious way of improving the situation and probably should have been the rule all along. Each employee will have to pick where they want to stay, then wherever they stop working pretty much needs to increase the hours of another employee to make it up. Roughly speaking, they should each end up with a single full-time job.

Multiple part-time has become common, as it allows employers to stiff their workers on benefits.  It's something that the Province needs to address.

Why? Why shouldn't we instead address it by socializing all benefits including a minimum income?