Temporary Workers

• Canada’s reliance on temporary workers reflects innovation gaps, experts say

  Canada's lack of business investment has employers turning to temporary workers to boost their output. Here's why that's a drag on prosperity in Canada.

  Canada

  Jan 20, 2024
  
• Lifting of COVID 19 rules in N.B. allows foreign workers to head straight to farms

  Agriculture Alliance of New Brunswick says the lifting of COVID-19 restrictions will allow fully vaccinated foreign workers to head directly to the province's farms.

  Economy

  Mar 21, 2022
  
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• Ontario government proposes legislation that would license temporary agencies, recruiters

  Labour Minister Monte McNaughton says there are more than 3,000 agencies in Ontario, and the vast majority operate ethically, but some are bad actors.

  Canada

  Oct 18, 2021
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• Nearly 30 contract workers laid off at London’s General Dynamics

  The majority of the losses came from engineering.

  Canada

  Sep 5, 2018
• Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort files request to hire 61 foreign workers

  Trump may have repeatedly urged U.S. businesses to "hire American," but his own Mar-a-Lago resort doesn't appear to be heeding his call.

  World

  Jul 6, 2018
• Equal pay for equal work? Not under Ontario’s new statutory holiday pay rules

  The law that raised minimum wage also established rules that introduce pay inequities among part-time workers, small businesses say.

  Money

  Feb 13, 2018
• Businessman accused of bilking Filipino workers pleads guilty in Halifax court

  He allegedly counselled the workers to lie about their wages if they wanted to stay in Canada - with some working for as low as $3.13 per hour.

  Canada

  Dec 5, 2017
• Toronto bakery Fiera Foods fined $300,000 in 2016 death of worker

  The labour ministry's investigation determined that Fiera "failed to ensure that a worker near a source of entanglement secured all loose clothing, as required."

  Canada

  Sep 14, 2017
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• Federal live-in caregiver program being criticized for exploiting workers

  With Parliament poised to look at changes to how temporary foreign workers are treated, people who came as live-in caregivers are speaking out about what they call injustices within the federal programs.

  Canada

  Sep 12, 2016
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• Millennials and the changing world of work

  What will the world of work look like in the future? More flexible and less stable, experts say.

  Lifestyle

  Feb 16, 2015