Personal Support Workers (PSWs) are facing more hazards on the job and earning lower wages than workers’ in institutional care, according to a new report by Social Planning Toronto and a sociology professor. Naomi Lightman’s findings conclude that immigrant and racialized women are bearing the brunt of this disparity.
Lightman, who teaches at Toronto Metropolitan University, found that in private homes, there was “very little oversight,” as issues such as workplace discrimination and unpaid labour often went “under the radar.”
In this interview, Lightman shares her research and what policymakers can do to close the gap, including calls for better protections, fairer compensation and reduced barriers to unionization for home-care PSWs.
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