Employment and labour
(Vancouver) Legislation that allows employers to “opt out” of minimum legal employment standards has resulted in substandard and unfair working conditions and may be unconstitutional, according to a study released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.
Bill 48 was passed by the provincial government in 2002 and, among other things, excludes unionized workers from core protections of the Employment Standards Act (ESA).
Last November, the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) announced a scheme to speed up the processing of temporary workers for Alberta and British Columbia. The Minister appears to have been concerned with ongoing reports of large numbers of job vacancies going unfilled. In response, he pursued several initiatives, with the key one being to establish province specific lists of “occupations under pressure” for Alberta and BC.
OTTAWA – Canadians are working harder and smarter, contributing to a growing economy, but their paycheques have been stagnant for the past 30 years, says a new study by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA).
Rising Profit Shares, Falling Wage Shares finds that Canada’s economy grew steadily and workers’ productivity improved by 51 per cent in the past 30 years, but workers’ average real wages have been stuck in a holding pattern all this time.
(Vancouver) Numerous opportunities to generate jobs from coastal forests are routinely squandered and in the absence of much-needed reforms the situation will only worsen, says a new study released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.
The study focuses on two troubling trends plaguing the coastal industry: rising log exports and mounting wood waste. It finds that the combined effect of wood waste and log exports was a loss of an estimated 5,872 jobs in 2005 and 5,756 jobs in 2006.
Perhaps the most important thing that we’ve learned after years of grappling with the challenges of economic development is that there are no easy solutions.
We are now enjoying the lowest rate of unemployment in 30 years, yet manufacturing plants are closing and there is a steady flow of workers leaving rural Nova Scotia.
Much of the recent decline in the unemployment rate is accounted for by the robust economic growth in Halifax and by the exodus of workers from the province.
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