Employment and labour
Inside this issue:
Introducing the Climate Justice Project
Searching for the Good Life in a Carbon Neutral BC
Policy Options to Reduce BC’s Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Building Sustainable Communities
BC’s Green Budget and the Carbon Tax
Removing Barriers to Work: Flexible Employment Options for People With Disabilities in BC
Regina – A recent Centre for Policy Alternatives’ in depth analysis of Bill 6, the Saskatchewan government’s tabled amendments to the Trade Union Act, predicts significant damages to the province’s industrial relations climate.
Boom times in BC are reflected in low unemployment rates and robust economic growth. But missing from that picture is the fact that some people are having a harder time earning a decent living than others. Among those people are recent immigrants.
Statistics Canada reports that, in 2006, very recent immigrants (people who have been in Canada five years or less) had the most difficulty integrating into the labour market. That’s in spite of the fact that they are more likely than the Canadian-born population to have a university education.
TORONTO— Twenty years after Ontario introduced pay equity, a new study finds the practice is dying on the vine – starving from years of government neglect.
The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives’ study, Putting Fairness Back Into Women’s Pay, shows most Ontario employers ignore their obligation to pay women fairly; and the government is failing to fully fund the pay equity adjustments owed working women.