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Canadian Labour Day, Established 1894
Labour Day, the first Monday in September, has been a statutory holiday in Canada since 1894. It originated in the first workers’ rallies of the Victorian era. Historically, workers marked the day with various activities. These included parades, speeches, games, amateur competitions and picnics. The holiday promoted working-class solidarity and belonging during a time of […]
Canadian Uber Benefits Maneuver, Mexico Uber May Pay Social Security
31/08/2021 Comments Off on Canadian Uber Benefits Maneuver, Mexico Uber May Pay Social Security
Uber Technologies is making a new app-based worker benefits maneuver in Canada — a proposed flexible benefits fund managed by delivery and rideshare companies and blessed by the Provincial governments. Meanwhile, Uber in Mexico is reportedly mulling paying social security taxes for gig-worker drivers there. Both developments come as Uber and other gig-worker companies are […]
Continue reading …G.M. And Union Avoid Strike By 3,900 Canadian Workers
20/09/2016 Comments Off on G.M. And Union Avoid Strike By 3,900 Canadian Workers
G.M. And Union Avoid Strike By 3,900 Canadian Workers By IAN AUSTEN The action focused on two car production lines in Ontario, but it was a battleground for an entire country struggling to revive its manufacturing base. Source: The New York Times – The New American Job Newsfeed
Continue reading …Canada Loses Jobs But Unemployment Drops To 7% Lowest Since 2008
12/02/2013 Comments Off on Canada Loses Jobs But Unemployment Drops To 7% Lowest Since 2008Canadian employment fell in January following 12-months of robust job growth, including two consecutive months of employment increases. Despite this, Canada’s unemployment rate dropped one-tenth of a point to 7%, the lowest since December 2008. Canada lost about 21,900 jobs in January. Nearly all of the job losses were full-time jobs in the provinces of […]
Continue reading …International Day Of The Girl Child: ILO Calls For Equal Treatment
11/10/2012 Comments Off on International Day Of The Girl Child: ILO Calls For Equal Treatment
ILO News- Around 88 million of the world’s child laborers are young girls under 18. Many are in the lowest paid, least secure jobs. They find themselves constrained by gender inequality at home and in the workplace. Others who work in the home remain invisible and unaccounted for. Guy Ryder, International Labour Organization director-general, has […]
Continue reading …Irish Workers Find Jobs, Find Canada Isn’t Utopia But Plan To Stay
08/10/2012 Comments Off on Irish Workers Find Jobs, Find Canada Isn’t Utopia But Plan To Stay
From the Irish Independent comes this modern-day tale of what is age-old story for Irish workers. Forced abroad by a lack of work at home, Irish workers are finding jobs abroad and sometimes new homes. He tries not to think of how far away he is from home. But it’s always there in the back […]
Continue reading …In Canada Jobless Youth Left Out As Government, Business Look Abroad
02/10/2012 Comments Off on In Canada Jobless Youth Left Out As Government, Business Look Abroad
A backlash is beginning to appear in Canada against recent changes in wage and immigration rules aimed at attracting workers from the economically depressed Eurozone. Jason Kenney, Canada’s immigration minister, is redefining the nation’s immigration and wage rules. The new rules are expected to go into effect next year. The changes are meant to attract workers […]
Continue reading …Irish Workers Emigrate In Record Numbers Keeping Ireland’s Unemployment Down
29/09/2012 Comments Off on Irish Workers Emigrate In Record Numbers Keeping Ireland’s Unemployment DownIrish workers are on the move again. This time it’s a 21st century wave of Irish immigration that’s taking away Ireland’s most skilled workers. More than 100,000 Irish workers are expected to leave to find jobs before end of 2013. Ireland’s unemployment rate was 14.7% as of August 2012. For many Irish workers the only […]
Continue reading …Canadian Recruitment Firms Target Irish Workers, Despite Questions At Home
29/09/2012 Comments Off on Canadian Recruitment Firms Target Irish Workers, Despite Questions At Home
Canadian recruitment firm, the Diamond Group of Companies, is opening a UK and European headquarters in Dublin in a big to attract Irish workers to fill jobs in Canada. Diamond Group plans to recruit around 1,000 Irish workers to relocate to Canada, to feed a growing demand for English-speaking workers from overseas. It is estimated […]
Continue reading …Job Search Engine Indeed.com Bought By Japan’s Recruit Co.
27/09/2012 Comments Off on Job Search Engine Indeed.com Bought By Japan’s Recruit Co.
Recruit Co. Ltd., a firm that once brought Japan’s government to its knees in a 1988 scandal, has purchased popular job search engine Indeed.com. Both Indeed and Recruit Co. are privately held companies. No dollar or yen value was given for the purchase. However, published reports speculate Recruit Co. may have paid as much as […]
Continue reading …- Celebrating the Resilience of Low-Income Women
- CEOs Get to Retire Comfortably. Workers Like Me Deserve the Same.
- Jobs Increased 339,000 In May, Unemployment Up 0.3% To 3.7%
- The decline of job creation at new establishments
- Contractor faces 2 serious citations after US Department of Labor finds safety failures led to welder’s death at Bonner Bridge demolition project
- Investigation into worker’s severe arm injury finds Cusseta auto parts manufacturer, supplier willfully ignored safety precautions
- ‘It’s a sweat factory’: Instacart workers ready to strike for pay and conditions
- Ships backed up outside US ports pumping out pollutants as they idle
- Privacy fears as Moscow metro rolls out facial recognition pay system
- ‘We are not machines’: Hollywood workers poised to strike for better conditions
- Boeing pilot indicted for allegedly deceiving US regulators over 737 Max
- Ipswich apprentice butcher encourages others to consider industry
- Ipswich apprentice butcher encourages others to consider industry
- Over 10,000 John Deere workers strike over ‘years’ of poor treatment
- Corporations are pledging to be ‘water positive’. What does that mean?
- US Department of Labor investigation of crane collapse, double fatality on Interstate 10 finds Lufkin company failed to assemble crane properly
- For the 6th time in 7 years, federal inspectors find Illinois contractor putting construction workers at risk of industry’s deadliest hazard
- US Department of Labor proposes $83K in fines to healthcare facility for failing to protect workers from coronavirus hazards
- Facebook says it will do more to prevent online hate, harassment
- As U.S. prepares to reopen border, some urge Canada to relax testing requirement
- Biden orders companies to ease supply chain bottlenecks or he’ll ‘call them out’
- What is the ‘new model’ the EU is proposing for Northern Ireland?
- Apple to make 10 million fewer iPhones due to microchip shortage
- US Department of Labor, Mexican Consulate in Boston enter alliance to promote workplace safety, health among New England’s workers
- US Department of Labor sues Austin luxury car dealer that retaliated against employee who raised concerns of coronavirus hazards
- Vaccine hesitant New Yorkers consider leaving the city as mandates take effect
- Carbon emissions ‘will drop just 40% by 2050 with countries’ current pledges’
- House passes bill to raise US debt ceiling through early December
- ‘The stakes couldn’t be higher’: GE urged to invest in green US jobs
- Zellers returns — kind of — but the lowest price isn't quite the law
- Cement makers across world pledge large cut in emissions by 2030
- India faces electricity crisis as coal supplies run critically low
- California justice department to investigate enormous oil spill