Category Archives: Labour
Health-care staff talk of devastating COVID toll on working conditions, mental health
TORONTO — Anxiety-ridden and overworked health-care workers say they feel abandoned in their increasingly desperate struggle to cope with COVID-19, a new small-scale study suggests. Interviews with nurses, personal support workers and others in hospita...
Canada’s labour unions could play big role in efforts to avert ‘Buy American’ rules
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Canada's largest private-sector unions could be among those with their hands on the helm next year when the time comes to navigate the shoals of Joe Biden's proposed Buy American rules. The president-elect, a self-proclaimed "blue-c...
AIMCo chief executive to exit from Alberta’s embattled fund manager by June 2021
CALGARY — The chief executive of Alberta Investment Management Corp. is expected to leave the post by next June — a few months earlier than planned before the Alberta fund manager's investment track record came under fire earlier this year. A
Ending withdrawal rules from registered retirement funds would cost $1B, PBO says
OTTAWA — A new review by Parliament's spending watchdog says waiving mandatory withdrawal amounts from seniors' retirement savings would cost federal coffers about $1 billion annually. Each year, seniors with registered retirement income funds have to ...
Manitoba elections commissioner dismisses Tory complaint about union ad campaign
WINNIPEG — Manitoba's commissioner of elections has dismissed a complaint from the Progressive Conservative party that alleged a union broke the limit on third-party spending during last year's provincial election.Bill Bowles said the billboard and bus...
Migrant worker groups critical of Ontario’s new farm outbreak plan
TORONTO — A new strategy to prevent COVID-19 outbreaks on Ontario farms does not go far enough to protect vulnerable employees, migrant worker groups said Tuesday, as the province and farmers pledged to do more ahead of the 2021 growing
Labour minister hails progress on pay equity but says it will take time to deliver
OTTAWA — The government is proposing to give federally regulated companies at least three years to develop plans to give their female employees equal pay for work of equal value. Companies that face a boost in their payroll costs by more
Feds to give $1.5 billion to help Canadians in hard-hit sectors train for new jobs
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the federal government will send $1.5 billion in job-training support to the provinces and territories to help Canadians in industries hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic. The funding will help laid-off workers...
Thanks to USMCA, working-class Americans will be integral to future U.S. trade policy
WASHINGTON, D.C. — One of the lasting legacies of Donald Trump's tumultuous presidency will be to give working-class Americans more of a say in U.S. trade policy, experts say — and that could pose a challenge for Canada in the
B.C. labour board to provide neutral ‘troubleshooters’ for COVID-19 school plans
VANCOUVER — British Columbia's Labour Relations Board says it will provide neutral third-party "troubleshooters" to help iron out challenges arising from COVID-19 protocols in public schools. The BC Teachers' Federation filed an application to t...