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Assuming a 40-hour workweek and 52 paid weeks per year, the annual gross employment income of an individual earning the minimum wage in Canada is between C$31,200 (in Alberta and Saskatchewan) and C$39,520 (in Nunavut). [4] The following table lists the hourly minimum wages for adult workers in each province and territory of Canada.
According to the Government of Saskatchewan, approximately 95% of all items produced in Saskatchewan, depend on the basic resources available within the province. Various grains, livestock, oil and gas, potash, uranium, wood and their spin off industries fuel the economy. [8] As of 2017, Saskatchewan's GDP was approximately C$79.513 billion. [9 ...
Labour demand is a derived demand; that is, hiring labour is not desired for its own sake but rather because it aids in producing output, which contributes to an employer's revenue and hence profits. The demand for an additional amount of labour depends on the Marginal Revenue Product (MRP) and the marginal cost (MC) of the worker.
Job security is the probability that an individual will keep their job; a job with a high level of security is such that a person with the job would have a small chance of losing it. Many factors threaten job security: globalization, outsourcing, downsizing, recession, and new technology, to name a few.
The economic impact of immigration is an important topic in Canada.Two conflicting narratives exist: 1) higher immigration levels help to increase GDP [1] [2] and 2) higher immigration levels decrease GDP per capita or living standards for the resident population [3] [4] [5] and lead to diseconomies of scale in terms of overcrowding of hospitals, schools and recreational facilities ...
2024 New York Daily News strike, one day strike in protest of staffing cuts, the first strike by New York Daily News journalists since the 1990–1991 New York Daily News strike. [6] 2024 Northern Ireland public sector strike, involving 150 000 public sector workers, the largest strike in Northern Ireland in over 50 years. [7] [8]
PSAC strikers outside a CRA office in Surrey, British Columbia. On April 7, the CRA bargaining group voted to enter a legal strike position. [21] On April 12, the national president of PSAC, Chris Aylward, announced that the Treasury Board bargaining unit had voted overwhelmingly in favour of entering into a legal strike position, thus granting the group a 60-day window to initiate a labour ...
The Economic Council of Canada was an independent economic advisory body established as a federal Crown Corporation by the Government of Canada in 1963. [1] Its purpose was to report on a wide range of pressing matters relating to Canada's economic development, focusing on five main economic objectives: full employment, sustained economic growth, price stability, equitable distribution of ...