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This story is part of Situation Critical, a series from CBC British Columbia reporting on the barriers people in this province face in accessing timely and appropriate health care. (CBC) Data shows that sick leaves in B.C.’s health-care sector are up by a marked amount compared to pre-pandemic levels. According to numbers requested by CBC News, an average of 9.7 per cent of health-care workers in the public system were off sick for at least …
Read More »These 4 workers have hot jobs. Literally. Here’s how they’re faring during a heat wave
Earlier this week, when Chris Green walked into his Inglewood workshop, in a garage with no air conditioning, it was already a toasty 30 C, he says. Green is a bladesmith — a blacksmith who makes custom knives — and he spends his days in front of a forge hot enough to bend …
Read More »Canada needs to ‘do better’ when recruiting foreign workers, federal minister says
This is the last in a three-part series about a group of temporary foreign workers with a Prince Edward Island farm company. Stories of trouble at a farming company on P.E.I. are an indication Canada’s Temporary Foreign Worker Program has been needing change, says federal Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Minister Sean …
Read More »Temporary foreign workers rescued from abusive situation on P.E.I. farm
CBC News has learned details of why nine temporary foreign workers were released from their obligations to a P.E.I. farm business, and has spoken directly with two of those workers. The federal government granted the employees open work permits to enable them to escape an abusive situation, a program that …
Read More »Business quest to do more with fewer workers confronts productivity puzzle
Even as the world debates whether we are or are not in a recession, a persistent shortage of workers has business leaders and economists struggling to understand one of Canada’s most intractable, and some say most crucial, economic problems. Despite the slowing effect of rising interest rates intended to fight soaring …
Read More »After the Great Resignation, where did all the Canadian workers go?
Restaurants, airlines, schools and nursing homes are at the sharp end of a labour crunch that’s afflicted employers all year long. In June,the unemployment rate fell to a record low of 4.9 per cent, tightening the screws on an economy with more positions than it could fill. Amid a prolonged …
Read More »Red Deer emergency workers want you to stop shoving your phone into cupholders
It’s become an all too common occurrence for Red Deer emergency dispatcher Andrea McLean. She answers a 911 call to hear a confused person on the other line wondering how they dialled the number. Knowingly, she asks, “Was your phone in a cupholder?” They say, “Yes,” and she launches into her explanation. …
Read More »Stellantis offering retirement incentives to workers at Windsor, Brampton plants
Stellantis is offering a “retirement incentive program” to employees at its Ontario assembly plants in Windsor and Brampton ahead of a multibillion-dollar shift to electric vehicle production, but the automaker is not commenting on how much it expects to shrink its workforce. In a statement on Tuesday, the company formerly …
Read More »Unions representing 70,000 Ontario hospital workers demand action amid staff shortages
CMA President Dr. Katharine Smart on the state of the health-care system and political will to seek solutions to address what she calls a “crisis”. News Source link
Read More »St. Catharines to consult with migrant workers on transportation planning, after roadside death
When Blanca Islas Perez heard about the death of Fermin Soto Sanchez in St. Catharines, Ont., earlier this month, it brought her straight back to the 1990s. That’s when her husband died and she became a migrant worker, like him, in order to take care of her family. She has been travelling to Canada to …
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