Tag Archives: Labour

OTTAWA - The federal government's key emergency benefit for workers with jobs hit by the pandemic is "not a permanent solution" to ongoing hardships, a Senate committee says in a report that make...

OTTAWA - The federal government is for the second time extending its program to subsidize wages in companies hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic, this time until at least December. But the gov...

CALGARY - A class-action lawsuit has been filed against Cargill Ltd. that claims the meat-packing company failed to take reasonable precautions to protect its workers in Alberta during the COVID-...

OTTAWA - Federal employees stand to collect up to $2,500 each in cash payments for "pain and suffering" resulting from the government's failed Phoenix pay system under an agreement reached with the co...

OTTAWA - Nearly one million more Canadians had jobs in June than a month earlier, Statistics Canada says, as businesses forced to close by the pandemic began to reopen and the coun...

WASHINGTON - Donald Trump's trade ambassador continued to keep Canada's steel and aluminum industry in suspense Thursday as trade experts, labour bosses and business leaders considered how best t...

MONTREAL - Construction materials giant Lafarge Canada says it has fired an employee after a discriminatory and hateful act took place at a Montreal work site. The company said an act of dis...

OTTAWA - Nearly two million Canadian workers could remain unemployed this year, according to forecasts in the federal government's long-awaited "fiscal snapshot." The document released ...

WASHINGTON - The job market took a big step toward healing in May, though plenty of damage remains, as a record level of hiring followed record layoffs in March and April. The Labor Department reporte...

OTTAWA - Providing almost all Canadians with a basic income for six months beginning this fall could cost about $98 billion, the parliamentary budget officer said in a report on the eve of&n...