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Eroding Worker Protections
BC’s New ‘Flexible’ Employment Standards Download 984.85 KB 48 pages
FastFacts: The Employment Standards Act
Improving Conditions for Low-Wage Workers Download 33.76 KB 2 pages
Paying our public servants
The season of public sector bargaining is upon us. While the teachers’ strike is over, bargaining now starts in earnest for the vast majority of…
Paying Our Public Servants
The Dollars and Sense of BC and National Wage Trends Download 90.42 KB8 pages
Moving Low-Income People in Winnipeg’s Inner City Into Good Jobs
Evidence on What Works Best Download 673.03 KB 60 pages
Poor need more than T.E.A.
Saskatchewan’s Building Independence Program forces people into “low wage” traps Download 238.59 KB 4 pages
Children need greater protection in the world of work
Two years ago the provincial government made dramatic changes to BC’s child labour rules, relaxing the laws and regulations that govern the hiring of children…
October 2005: Here’s a Book that Fills the Vacuum About Labour in the Media
Book Review Work and Labour in Canada: Critical Issues By Andrew Jackson Canadian Scholars Press, 2005 The world of labour has virtually disappeared from the…
Straddling the World of Traditional and Precarious Employment
A Case Study of the Courier Industry in Winnipeg Download 339.96 KB34 pages
Survey of young workers should prompt rethink of child and youth employment standards
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT (Vancouver) A new study that surveyed public school students raises concerns that BC’s employment regulations are leaving children…
Child and Youth Employment Standards
The Experience of Young Workers Under BC’s New Policy Regime Download 647.71 KB40 pages Attachments SUMMARY: Child and Youth Employment Standards
Unions are still our best hope
When it comes to workers and unions there is good and bad news. The good news is that polls show that Canadians’ approval of unions…
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