Category Archives: Labour
Business Highlights: Flexible working, economic bottlenecks
___ Is Thursday the new Monday? Flexible working is in flux
Alberta finance minister, health provider want to cut pay to nurses
EDMONTON — The Alberta government wants to cut the wages of nurses by three per cent to help control spending and the head of the union representing them says that's a blow to morale already low due to the COVID-19
Pay equity law aimed at closing gender wage gap to come into effect Aug. 31
Legislation meant to help close the gender wage gap will come into effect on Aug. 31 and be phased in over the next three years, the federal government said Wednesday. Labour Minister Filomena Tassi said in a livestreamed talk that the
Business Highlights: JEDI cancellation, teens filling jobs
___ Pentagon cancels disputed JEDI cloud contract with Microsoft
Galesburg, an American crossroad, tunes out feuding Congress
GALESBURG, Ill. (AP) — Pickup trucks and cars rumble north across East Main Street's railroad tracks into Galesburg, Illinois, past the red-brick Lindstrom's appliances building that has occupied the same corner for more than 100 years.
Hiring intentions hit all-time high in Bank of Canada business outlook survey
OTTAWA — Hiring intentions among businesses have hit an all-time high and workers' confidence in landing a job has rebounded nearly to pre-pandemic levels as the country looks to a summer rebound from the pandemic, the Bank of Canada says. The
Business Highlights: Accelerated hiring, Wall Street records
___ US hiring accelerated in June as workers earned higher pay
San Francisco Fed’s Daly: Economy doing better than expected
WASHINGTON (AP) — With interest rates ultra-low even as the U.S. economy swiftly improves, Federal Reserve officials are divided over how quickly they should adjust their policies.
How major US stock indexes fared Thursday
Stocks finished modestly higher Thursday, adding to the gains that helped the market close out its best first half of a year since the dotcom bubble.
Asian shares higher, but China down after tough talk from Xi
TOKYO (AP) — Shares were mostly higher in Asia on Friday, though markets in Shanghai and Hong Kong declined a day after the Chinese Communist Party marked its centenary with tough talk by Chinese President Xi Jinping.