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Part-time nation: How job ‘quality’ in Canada is eroding
… part-time work, which has accounted for 90 per cent of job-creation in Canada in the past year… “By looking at the distribution of part-time vs. full-time jobs; self-employment vs. paid-employment; and the compensation of full-time paid- employment jobs in more than 100 industry groups, we observe a slow but steady deterioration.” …the share of lower-paid work in the economy has been climbing
Tags: economy, participation, standard of living
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It pays – big – to be a Canadian CEO
… according to a new global ranking of average compensation, our chief executive officers are the fourth-highest-paid in 25 countries measured. The average in Canada is $9.32-million (U.S.), slightly behind Britain, a bit more behind Switzerland, and way behind the United States, to whom no other country comes close. The compensation packages, which takes in salaries, bonuses, pensions, perks and equity schemes, were taken from the public filings of companies listed in primary stock indexes
Tags: economy, globalization, ideology, participation, standard of living
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Harvesting freedom and sowing resistance: Migrant workers in Canada demand permanent immigration status
Workers… are being brought in from other parts of the world to do the jobs that no one wants to do, they are treated as sub-human and forced to return home, many times as injured bodies. There is nothing temporary about this program, as some workers have been working in them for as long as 25 or 30 years. We have to do better… introduce legislation which makes room for permanent status for all migrant workers.
Tags: economy, globalization, ideology, immigration, poverty, rights, standard of living
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Government must act to end racism in children’s aid system
… four in 10 children in the care of the Children’s Aid Society of Toronto are black in a city where only 8 per cent of children are. Worse, the problem is not just in Toronto, but throughout the province… Ontario’s children’s minister, Michael Coteau, refused to promise any funding to implement the report’s 18 important recommendations to address issues of racism in the system. This is unacceptable.
Tags: budget, child care, ideology, Indigenous, multiculturalism, poverty, rights, youth
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Ontario’s top priority
Ontario has made a deliberate decision to invest in a high-skill, high-wage economy, and when you look at the numbers, you can see the benefits. Our unemployment rate is at an eight-year low of 6.4 per cent, and we recently announced that our economy posted stronger GDP growth than Canada, the United States and all other G7 countries. Ontario’s economy is growing faster than Michigan’s when you look at real GDP
Tags: budget, economy, globalization, ideology, jurisdiction, participation, standard of living
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How a ‘pay raise’ turned into a nasty pay cut
It was a dream come true for PSWs, most of whom work long hours and at a job that paid just $12.50 an hour. Only a handful of full-time PSWs earn more than $30,000 a year. But that dream has turned into a nightmare as government health-care agencies force PSWs, who are paid by the hour and are not on a fixed salary, to spend less time with clients and have also reduced the number of clients they see.
The result is that many PSW actually earn less money now than they did before they received the government-mandated “pay raise.”
Tags: budget, disabilities, Health, ideology, standard of living
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University faculty urges government to keep pursuing fairness for contract faculty and precarious workers everywhere
… the number of courses taught by contract faculty in Ontario has doubled since 2000. These talented scholars face job insecurity, unpredictable scheduling, unfair wages, and they lack access to benefits. The growth of precarious academic work has brought the need for stronger employment and labour laws into sharp focus. OCUFA has recommended that labour law be updated to ensure equal pay for work of equal value and equal access to benefits for contract workers, as well as require that all workers receive reasonable notice of their schedules.
Tags: budget, ideology, participation, standard of living
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Ontario’s labour ministry must ensure employees are paid what they are owed
The ministry must stop depending on complaints from employees to enforce the act. Instead it should conduct more surprise inspections, which are more successful both at catching law-breaking employers and collecting unpaid wages… But still it sticks with its complaints driven process to enforce the act though it knows that even when individual employees file successful claims against employers about two-thirds of the companies still do not comply.
Tags: crime prevention, economy, ideology, jurisdiction, rights, standard of living
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Wage-theft victims lost $28M to poor enforcement, statistics show
Victims of wage theft across Ontario have lost out on $28 million over the past six years because the Ministry of Labour failed to collect the pay owed to them by law-breaking bosses, new statistics show. Just $19 million of the $47.5 million stolen from out-of-pocket workers since 2009 has ever been recovered… (Employment Standards Act) enforcement is still largely complaint driven but that many employees face barriers, like fear of retaliation, that inhibit them from making complaints
Tags: crime prevention, economy, jurisdiction, poverty, rights, standard of living
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The Labour Market Agreements: What Did They Really Do?
From 2008 until 2014, the federal government transferred funds through the Labour Market Agreements to the provinces and territories to support labour market programs and employment services for disadvantaged Canadians. In 2013, Ottawa unilaterally cancelled the Labour Market Agreements and replaced them (except in Québec) with Canada Job Fund Agreements. In doing so, Ottawa moved from helping the most disadvantaged to supporting employers to train their own employees.
Tags: budget, economy, ideology, jurisdiction, participation, poverty
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