Changes needed regarding pensions

This is to help people who work for provincial governments but will not receive a pension. This is for all Canadian provincial governments who are willing to hire people on-call or for contract positions of 6-10 months a year but do not give full benefits or pensions.

In many cases, workers who are on-call (nursing staff) often work as much as the full-time workers but receive few if any benefits.

Full-time contract workers (teachers, secretaries etc.) may have a job for 12 months a year but receive few benefits and no pensions after 20-25 years.

The unions often see on-call people as a threat to part-time or full-time staff, yet, willingly take union dues but do little or nothing for the on-call workers in times of crisis.

Why do MLAs and MPs get so many benefits and pensions after five years service?

Seniors in government housing are often told they are subsidized, yet, so many have endured this inequality because governments did not provide for these workers.

As full-time, on-call, part-time, short-term contract worker, in various provinces, for more than 25 years, many people do not receive provincial government pensions.

Changes to this inequality may not help retired workers but it might help the people still working in what I consider financially abusive government jobs.

Flora J Thompson, Charlottetown