Andrew Langille

York University, Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies, Adjunct

York University, Osgoode Hall Law School, Alumnus

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I am a Toronto based litigation lawyer who practices primarily in the areas of employment, administrative, human rights law, and tax law. Additionally, I teach in the Work and Labour Studies program at York University. I hold a B.A. in Sociology and Political Science from the University of Guelph, a LL.B. from the University of Windsor, and a LL.M. from Osgoode Hall Law School.

My research focuses on the legal regulation of the school-to-labour market transition, unpaid internships, the impacts of technology on workplace law, critical youth theory, equality rights and age discrimination, and the emergence of transnational movements centred around addressing precarious work.
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Lost in Transition: The Regulation of Unpaid Labour during the School-to-Labour Market Transition in Ontario

E Journal of International and Comparative Labour Studies, Jan 29, 2015

Unpaid labour has become firmly situated as a growing area of concern in Ontario by academics, me... more Unpaid labour has become firmly situated as a growing area of concern in Ontario by academics, media outlets, labour activists, students, and young workers. There is growing consensus that the unpaid labour extracted from youths during the school-to-labour market transition is a serious public policy issue demanding attention. Multiple advocacy groups have appeared, such as the Canadian Intern Association and Students Against Unpaid Internship Scams, which are dedicated to drawing attention to precarious forms of employment such as unpaid internships and the increasing demands from post-secondary education institutions that students undertake unpaid labour as part of their academic studies. Currently, there is a dearth of research into the deployment of unpaid labour during the school-to-labour market transition. Over the past three years there has been a growing awareness in society about the effects arising from unpaid labour on youths and increasing calls from various actors for government intervention to renormalize the youth labour market in Ontario which has been beset by high unemployment in urban centres, rampant underemployment, a growth in precarious employment, and an increasingly fractured school-to-labour market transition. The main goal of this paper is provide a baseline analysis of the regulatory protections that youths receive, or don't receive, during the school-tolabour market transition. This paper is divided into two sections. The first

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