Approvals for 'low-skill' stream now taking more than 100 days. OTTAWA (CP) — Some employers looking to hire temporary foreign workers are experiencing significant delays due to an increase in demand this year for migrant workers in Canada. The federal government says the volume of applications is up almost 25 per cent over last year — a [...]

Parts of Alberta among regions initially excluded from a 2016 boost to EI benefits. A federal department is reconsidering the boundaries that determine how workers in different areas qualify for employment insurance. Changes to the 64 EI regions, as they're known, would send political ripples through the country as some workers benefit while others find [...]

Man said he suffered from trauma due to a hostile workplace A Nova Scotia human rights board of inquiry has handed down an award of nearly $600,000 to a former Metro Transit bus garage worker after finding he was the victim of racial harassment and discrimination by management and co-workers. The inquiry heard that Y.Z., a [...]

The bulk of the cuts will impact research projects on issues like occupational disease, as well as the province’s independent health and safety associations, which provide ministry-approved training and support to workplaces across Ontario. The provincial office tasked with preventing occupational injury, illness and death in Ontario will see $16 million in cuts this year, [...]

It's called Bill 111: Speaking Out About Workplace Violence and Workplace Harassment Act, 2019 The MPP for Nickel Belt is proposing new legislation that would protect people who file complaints about mistreatment at work but a lawyer says she's unsure if it would help. New Democrat France Gélinas has put forward Bill 111, an act [...]

Church, CNESST have reached out-of-court settlement in case of underpaid workers We will never know if the Church of Scientology paid its employees the hundreds of thousands of dollars that Quebec's labour standards board ruled they are owed. The parties have reached a confidential, out-of-court settlement. The board, known by its French acronym CNESST, had [...]

Workplace violence, when it happens, is a serious problem for any employer — or at least it should be. Some professions are more vulnerable to workplace violence than others, but that doesn’t mean it should be accepted as part of the job. Occupational health and safety legislation across the country is designed to protect workers [...]

Ontario’s Ministry of Labour will “modernize and streamline” its enforcement efforts by helping employers to “educate themselves” on their workplace obligations, according to Thursday’s provincial budget. The move to encourage employers to be more “self-reliant” coincides with an $11 million cut to the ministry’s budget from $317 million in 2017/18 to $306.1 million this year. The [...]

Fashion giant PVH, which owns Tommy Hilfiger and Calvin Klein, said it will investigate reports that Ethiopian workers who make clothes for their high-street stores routinely face verbal abuse and discrimination and earn as little as 12 cents per hour. Workers in PVH supplier factories in Ethiopia are also forced to do unpaid overtime and [...]

Agnico Eagle Mining described as doing things right when it comes to training and retaining Indigenous workers A new report from the Conference Board of Canada says employers looking to hire and keep northern Indigenous employees could learn from a Canadian gold mining company, Agnico Eagle Mines. The study, Working Together: Indigenous Recruitment and Retention, was put [...]