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The Canada Recovery Sickness Benefit (CRSB) provides $500 per week (2 weeks maximum) for workers who: (a) "are unable to work for at least 50% of the week because they contracted COVID-19;" (b) "are self-isolated for reasons related to COVID-19;" or (c) "have underlying conditions, are undergoing treatments or have contracted other sicknesses ...
The Canada Labour Code (French: Code canadien du travail) is an Act of the Parliament of Canada to consolidate certain statutes respecting labour.The objective of the Code is to facilitate production by controlling strikes & lockouts, occupational safety and health, and some employment standards.
CUPE, however, was seeking pay raises of 5% each year, arguing that some its members had been without a contract for five years, and many were having trouble making ends meet and had been forced to take second jobs and rely on food banks. CUPE also stated that New Brunswick public sector workers were the lowest paid across all Canadian ...
Exclusive: Workers at anti-poverty charity, Oxfam, are balloting for strike action as they use food banks and struggle to pay rent
“The government of Canada takes the safety and dignity of temporary foreign workers very seriously and has been taking strong action to protect workers,” said Nancy Caron, the spokesperson for ...
Strike pay is a payment made by a trade union to workers who are on strike to help in meeting their basic needs while on strike, often out of a special reserve known as a strike fund. Union workers reason that the availability of strike pay increases their leverage at the bargaining table and actually decreases the probability of a strike ...
The looming strike is the latest twist in a labor dispute at Canada's top two railroads, which locked out more than 9,000 unionized workers on Thursday, triggering a simultaneous rail stoppage ...
The Canadian Federation of Independent Business, in an April 19 press release authored by its president, Dan Kelly, expressed concern over the strike's impacts. It urged the Government of Canada to ensure that all departments maintain full service to small business, continue negotiation "to ensure a long-term and affordable collective ...