The views expressed are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Commission. [...] These include: a narrowing of the range within which a contractual relationship can be defined as self-employment as opposed to employment; the application of fairness criteria to the employment contract (legislation on human rights, employment equity, and pay equity); regulation of pay through, in particular, the minimum wage; limits on the employer right to dismiss for cause; in Quebec and Saska [...] In the 1970s the National Council of Welfare was at pains to emphasize that a majority (about 60 percent) of Canada’s poor derived the bulk of their income from employment earnings of one or more family members.12 Within that category there was an over-representation of families with large numbers of children, of families within which the principal wage-earner was under 25, of those with less than [...] There is a comparative analysis of the incidence of low income among the working poor in the late 1980s.18 It reported that 3.4% of all households in Canada where the head worked full-time, full- year, fell below the LICO - a lower incidence than in the United States and the United Kingdom, but a bit higher than in Sweden and the Netherlands. [...] The mean annual wage of the men was about $27,000 and of the women about $18,500.19 Where the earner is the sole source of income for a family such amounts would not take those receiving them above all the LICO thresholds in Figure 1. And those are the averages.