Category Archives: Labour
TFW pilots hired at Canadian Forces Base in Ontario, records show
Temporary foreign workers were recruited to work as pilots at the Canadian Forces Base in Trenton, Ontario, records obtained from Service Canada show. The Canadian Forces Land Advanced Warfare Centre awarded a contract to assist parachute training to Rampart Aviation
Businesses free to hire and exploit unpaid interns under Bill C-59, critics say
By Christopher Pearson Bill C-59 on implementing provisions of the government’s budget is causing alarm among advocates for interns’ rights, who claim that the new bill will make it easier for companies to hire unpaid interns, while leaving them exposed
Metro newspaper handout workers left unpaid as Thinkbox National goes bankrupt
Bounced checks and application denials have left Metro newspaper handout workers without due compensation and without any proper recourse to claim for the unpaid wages. At the centre of this is Thinkbox National Marketing Inc., a company that president Emily
Employers facing criminal and labour law charges involving temporary foreign workers not on federal blacklist
Three Alberta businesses whose owners are facing criminal charges for human trafficking and labour law charges in a case involving seven temporary foreign workers have yet to be put on the federal government’s blacklist of employers who have broken the
Fresh calls to scrap temporary foreign worker program after landmark ruling
Rights groups are calling of the scrapping of Harper government’s controversial temporary foreign worker program after the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario found Presteve Foods Limited discriminated against two women from Mexico working under the program and awarded the complainants
Harper’s budget deterring women from work
By Djaouida Sellah NDP MP for Saint-Bruno—Saint-Hubert, QC We have before us a budget implementation bill that is over 160 pages long, contains over 270 provisions and amends dozens of laws. I find it appalling that the government has introduced
NDP vows to restore Canada Post home delivery
A federal NDP government would restore Canada Post home mail delivery to those whose service has been cut by the Conservative government, a New Democrat MP told parliament yesterday. “People I talk to are really upset because they know how
Prentice killing apprentice jobs to promote TFW program, labour groups say
Alberta Premier Jim Prentice’s budget decision to cut $6 million in funding to apprenticeships killing 6,000 apprentice jobs is an attempt to promote the temporary foreign worker program, according to labour groups. Prentice, who slashed the funding for apprenticeships
Loblaws facing $2 billion class action lawsuit by victims of 2013 Bangladesh Factory Collapse
A Toronto law firm has commenced a $2 billion class action lawsuit against Loblaws Companies Limited, Loblaws Inc, and Joe Fresh Apparel Canada Inc., on behalf of the victims of the tragic collapse of the Rana Plaza factory in Bangladesh
Budget rewards the rich and fails working Canadians – unions
The federal government’s 2015 budget puts millions of seniors at risk of poverty, abandons families in need of affordable child care and quality public health care, and fails to create good jobs and spur economic growth while maintaining unreasonably low