Tag Archives: Labour

OTTAWA - A quick look at Canada's November employment figures (numbers from the previous month in brackets): Unemployment rate: 6.5 per cent (6.9) Employment rate: 60.9 per cent (60.8) Participation r...

OTTAWA - Canada's economy continued to blow past job forecasts in November but some economists caution against reading too much into a series of strong headline figures. Statistics Canada said Friday ...

OTTAWA - More than 27,000 federal public servants were paid at least $150,000 in the last fiscal year, a document tabled in Parliament shows. It says more than 20,000 employees received compensation -...

EDMONTON - Two Alberta cabinet ministers say money was a key factor in the United Conservative government's decision to use the Charter's notwithstanding clause to override teachers' rights and shut d...

OTTAWA - The federal government is in the process of sending letters with information on its planned early retirement program to almost 70,000 employees as it works to reduce the size of the public se...

EDMONTON - The president of the Alberta Federation of Labour says Premier Danielle Smith only has herself to blame for her United Conservative Party caucus facing more than a dozen recall petitions. W...

OTTAWA - Treasury Board president Shafqat Ali on Monday denied having any knowledge about discussions to potentially order public servants to return to the office full time in 2027. Ali was responding...

MONTREAL - Quebec's major labour unions marched in downtown Montreal Saturday, their members expressing anger over the Quebec government's legislative agenda which includes a number of measures aimed ...

BURNABY - The BC General Employees Union says dairy milk testers in the province have started job action. The union says it represents dairy production technicians employed by Lactanet, and they began...

TORONTO - Companies and unions building worker training centres using money from Ontario's embattled Skills Development Fund could soon bypass planning laws, raising "significant concerns" for the pro...