Open letter called allegations from employees 'offensive' and 'unfounded' Native Women's Association of Canada (NWAC) President Francyne Joe said Tuesday that the organization's board would soon discuss allegations from employees who said management was doing little to deal with a toxic work environment that was affecting the mental health of staff. "It's distressing," said Joe. [...]

Former employee of Hugh Munro Construction, terminated in February 2018, says she was assaulted months earlier A Winnipeg woman is suing the construction company she used to work for, alleging she was fired in retaliation for reporting that she was sexually assaulted by a co-worker. The woman, a former employee of Winnipeg-based Hugh Munro Construction [...]

It’s a conversation that has been ongoing for years. Much like many workplaces in Canada, women in sports are paid less than their male counterparts. Andrea Katz with Fit Communications in Winnipeg, says it could possibly be because they aren’t getting the same amount of coverage as men. “About 4.7 per cent of all sports coverage is females [...]

An “intentional hiring policy” to employ more Black and Indigenous teachers is needed to supply badly-needed role models for two significantly-marginalized groups of students, public school trustees have decided. In an 11-3 recorded vote, the Peel District School Board approved a motion Monday authorizing a “targeted recruitment initiative” aimed at creating greater staff diversity. Trustee [...]

Two Black women employed by the Ontario public service (OPS) are suing their unions and the provincial government, alleging they suffered years of systemic racism and discrimination while their complaints were ignored, disbelieved or met with reprisals — and ultimately led to them being suspended or forced from the workplace. In a statement of claim [...]

97,000 families expected to take advantage in next 12 months OTTAWA (CP) — The federal government says more families than expected are taking advantage of the new ability to extend a year's worth of parental leave benefits over 18 months. Since the extension was made available in December 2017, more than 32,000 parents have availed themselves of [...]

OTTAWA - Executives at big established companies who get paid with large stock grants will owe more in tax under changes promised in the new federal budget. Under the current rules, employee stock option benefits are taxed at half the normal rate of personal income — the same rate as capital gains. The plan announced [...]

VERNON, B.C.—An arbitration board says two employees were wrongfully dismissed from their jobs with the fire department in Vernon, B.C., after a videotape showed them having sexual relations in the fire chief’s office. The pair were fired two days after the incident in March 2018, but their union grieved the dismissals and proposed four-month suspensions. [...]

As a doctoral student and teaching assistant at York University, Alexandria Petit-Thorne got involved with her union for two reasons: to fight for stable jobs in academia, and to put pressure on her employer to create a fund for sexual violence survivors on campus. But during a contentious five months of striking and picketing in [...]

The Canada Revenue Agency has been ordered to pay the maximum compensation to an Ontario employee who was sexually harassed by her boss after the federal labour board found the organization failed to take steps to prevent it from happening. A panel of the Federal Public Sector Labour Relations and Employment Board says the agency [...]