Category Archives: Labour
Foreign crews in domestic shipping recipe for ‘catastrophic’ oil spills
Foreign-flagged vessels employing exploited and overworked foreign crews who have neither vested interest in Canadian waterways nor the experience to navigate them are bound to cause environmental catastrophes like the oil spill in Vancouver this week, Canadian seafarers warn. The
TFW program allows employers to target vulnerable women for sexual abuse and violence
By Fay Faraday, Lawyer, Visiting Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School For the last 25 years I have been working with low-wage migrant workers across all the different streams of temporary labour migration: the seasonal agricultural worker program, the live-in caregiver
Raising retirement age leads to inequality
Raising the age of eligibility for the Old Age Security pension and the Guaranteed Income Supplement will increase inequalities between older people, according to new research coming out of Montreal. “This change will force retired people into greater dependence on
Only a fifth of Alberta businesses plan to hire Canadians after TFW permits expire
Only a little over a fifth of all Alberta businesses that use temporary foreign worker plan to hire Canadians once the TFW permits expire, according to a new survey. The government’s new “4 and 4” rule, which requires foreign nationals
Oil price slump threatens Newfoundland’s new-found prosperity
By Professor Wade Locke Professor, Memorial University of Newfoundland The oil and gas industry has been extremely important to Newfoundland and Labrador. We have produced about 1.5 billion barrels of oil since the industry started in 1997. This had a value
Government to allow 230,000 LMIA-exempt TFWs to come to Canada under IMP annually
The government plans to allow 230,000 temporary foreign workers (TFWs) to enter Canada annually under the International Mobility Program(IMP), which allows employers to bring in workers from abroad without proving the need for imported labour, according to a Gazette notification
How Air Canada broke the law, laid off thousands of workers, and outsourced operations to Israeli military drone maker
Air Canada had a very simple plan to increase its profits. Step 1: Spin the airline’s heavy maintenance unit off as a separate entity Step 2: Starve the spin-off of work and bankrupt it gradually Step 3: Outsource the operations