Tag Archives: Labour

OTTAWA - New Democrats and labour leaders are calling on Ottawa to change the employment insurance program so Canadians who take parental leave can still access unemployment benefits if they are out o...

Ontario Premier Doug Ford expressed frustration Tuesday with an Appeal Court ruling that declared his public sector wage-restraint law unconstitutional, but said he has agreed to repeal it amid a high...

OTTAWA - Allowing international students to work more than 20 hours a week could distract from their studies and undermine the objective of temporary foreign worker programs, public servants warned th...

As the provincial government and teachers get back to bargaining, the Ministry of Education is touting the funds it has provided to support new innovations in the classroom. The ministry is set to res...

The Saskatchewan Teachers' Federation and the provincial government have both made it clear that they want a solution to come out of the next two days of collective bargaining. "We want to get this de...

TORONTO - Hours after the province's highest court ruled an Ontario wage-restraint law unconstitutional, Premier Doug Ford's government announced Monday that it would repeal the controversial bill in ...

TORONTO - Public high school teachers and elementary teachers will get additional retroactive salary increases to compensate them for constrained wages under a law known as Bill 124. When the Elementa...

Saskatchewan's collective bargaining agreement for teachers is very thin, according to the federal body representing teachers. Heidi Yetman, president of the Canadian Teachers Federation, told Evan Br...

TORONTO - Ontario's Appeal Court is set to release its ruling on a provincial wage restraint law known as Bill 124 on Monday. The 2019 law capped salary increases for public sector workers to one per ...

With Saskatchewan teachers and the province slated to go back to the bargaining table Monday, the discussion around classroom size and complexity appears to once again be ramping up. Since the start o...