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Decent or Precarious? Understanding the Quality of Employment in Nova Scotia
The lived experience of workers reveals how far we still are from achieving decent and stable work for all.
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Long-term care in Nova Scotia: Pandemic lessons and persistent failure
Between March and September of 2020, long-term care (LTC) workers in Nova Scotia completed an online survey about their work experience during the early parts…
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Backgrounder: Long-Term Care in Nova Scotia: Pandemic Lessons and Persistent Failure
This backgrounder details the research methodology and full survey findings of the CCPA-NS report Long-Term Care in Nova Scotia: Pandemic Lessons and Persistent Failure.
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Barely hanging on
More than a million workers in Ontario do not earn a living wage where they live—especially women and racialized workers. We calculated this estimate using…
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Minimum wage increases aren’t even close to enough
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Beyond Recovery Data Dashboard
Women’s economic standing in Canada in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic
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Atlantic Canadians need a raise: One-third of Workers Earn Less than $20 an hour
Workers in the Atlantic provinces bring home some of the lowest wages in the country. Despite recent increases, Nova Scotia’s minimum wage remains the second…
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One-third of Atlantic Canadian workers paid less than $20 an hour
HALIFAX/K’jipuktuk – A new publication, Atlantic Canadians need a raise: One-third of workers earn less than $20 an hour, from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives-Nova Scotia underscores…
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Canada’s Broken Promises to Migrant Care Workers
VANCOUVER — The federal government must ensure that just-announced pilot programs for migrant care workers are not the latest in a series of failed such programs,…
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New statistics show one third of BC workers don’t earn a living wage
VANCOUVER — The minimum wage may be going up on Saturday, but one third of employed British Columbians are not earning a living wage, show new…
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Trapped in the wage gap
Even with the June 1 minimum wage increase, one in three BC employees will earn less than their community’s living wage—over 740,000 people.Far too many…
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