Precarious and low-wage gigs are eroding the mental health of Canadian workers...

"Two recent studies have drawn a link between mental health and minimum wage work, a connection obvious to Canada’s approximately 1.5 million minimum wage workers — or the estimated 21 per cent of Canadian employees earning less than $15 per hour — but less so to the general public.

While discussing mental health is more normalized today, the relation between it and low-wage work is still a blind spot. I spent about 10 years on and off working low-paid retail and service jobs and found, even when talking with friends, that the conversations were often uncomfortable because the stories of stress I shared weren’t taken as seriously due to the nature of my work and the pay grade."

Read the full article: https://www.readpassage.com/ra...age-will-save-lives/

Do you think the author identifies something we often miss when talking about mental health?