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How to fix a broken labour market
The challenge, Zizys says, is to create labour market that fits the current landscape. That will require a new network of relationships that allow business, workers, governments, educators and community leaders to identify the gaps and broken connections in the labour market and negotiate solutions that work for everyone. It will also require a re-thinking of our profits-trump-all attitude and an overhaul of our employment programs and agencies.
Tags: budget, economy, globalization, participation, rights, standard of living
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Canada’s growing part-time job problem exposed in 3 graphs
75% of Canada’s net new jobs created in the last year have been temporary, with nearly 60,000 temporary or contract positions added to Canada’s stagnant economy. Here are three graphs that show the scope of Canada’s part-time job problem: More people are working part-time jobs now than they were 10 years ago… A little over a quarter of all workers want to be working full-time, but have to take the jobs to make ends meet.
Tags: economy, globalization, ideology, participation, standard of living
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Good jobs | Bad jobs – Hennessy’s Index
112,000 … the number of private sector jobs that disappeared in Canada in August 2014 / 66% … the participation rate in Canada’s labour market in August 2014 – the worst it’s been in 13 years / 22 … the percentage of low-paying jobs in Canada. By comparison, that’s high among wealthy OECD nations. / $27,800 … the median wage for individuals in Canada / $7,960,300 … the average compensation of Canada’s highest paid 100 CEOs in 2012.
Tags: economy, participation, standard of living
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Help Not Wanted: Federal Public Service Cuts Have Hit Students Hard
At a time when youth unemployment is high and many university students are struggling to find jobs or co-op placements, the federal government has significantly cut the number of students it hires. New data, presented here for the first time, demonstrates that summer hiring of students in the federal public service has declined by more than a third (36%) from 10,894 in summer 2009 to under 7,000 in the last two summers. Non-summer hiring of students has declined an average of 23%.
Tags: budget, economy, ideology, standard of living, youth
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Ottawa approved thousands of foreign worker requests at minimum wage, data reveal
The federal government approved thousands of requests to bring in temporary foreign workers at minimum wage in recent years, a practice that undermines claims from government and employers that there are serious labour shortages and that all efforts have been taken to hire Canadians… at least 15,006 minimum-wage positions were approved between March 31, 2010, and Feb. 10, 2014… about 97 per cent of the approved minimum-wage positions were below what federal rules say they should currently be paid.
Tags: economy, ideology, rights, standard of living
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Manufacturing rises from the ashes
The clean technology industry now employs more Canadians than the aerospace industry, the pharmaceutical industry or the forestry industry… Its employees are well-paid, allowing them to support their healthy communities and strengthen the nation’s economic fabric. It invests more in research and development than any other industrial sector… It does not compete with other sectors; it complements them.
Tags: economy, globalization, standard of living
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Corporate Canada has lost the faith on capital investment
… some of the blame lies with government austerity, as finance ministers across the country wrestle their budgets toward balance… governments are stepping out of the game before companies are ready to step back in… Canadian companies are sitting, collectively, on an estimated $600-billion in cash… [but] look determined to wait for the economy to catch up to their capacity… before they ramp up investment in their buildings and equipment.
Tags: budget, economy, globalization, ideology, privatization
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Hey Mr. Flaherty, what happened to that big infrastructure pledge?
… the 2014 budget contained no details about how Ottawa plans to allocate the $53-billion it earmarked last year for municipal infrastructure… “The concern is that another construction season will be missed.”… The housing issue is of particular concern to the FCM and its caucus of big city mayors, who know that a growing number of low-income residents face extreme financial constraints due to rising housing and real estate costs in large urban areas.
Tags: budget, economy, ideology, standard of living, tax
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Ontario minimum wage goes up June 1 to $11
Anti-poverty groups had pushed for a $14 minimum wage, which the government had argued was too much of a leap… The $11 figure is roughly the level the minimum wage would be now had it been linked to inflation since 2010, but the Canadian Federation of Independent Business said that is too high… A higher minimum wage means higher payments for businesses into the Canada Pension Plan, employment insurance and employer health tax in a “compounding impact,”
Tags: economy, ideology, poverty, standard of living
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Who pays for minimum-wage hikes? The poor
We need a legislated minimum wage. Unscrupulous employers will always seek to exploit the vulnerable. Rigorous labour standards, including fair wages, are a basic mark of a just society. But the minimum wage is a blunt instrument with rapidly diminishing returns… [Premier Wynne’s] government would do better to create a wage-supplement program similar to the federal Working Income Tax Benefit. The WITB pays a maximum benefit of about $1,800 to a couple with kids earning $15,000. Its only problem is that it is too stingy.
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