• This report by The Canadian Press was first published Sept. 22, 2023. (ctvnews.ca)
  • Randstad Canada, a recruitment and HR service, has compiled a list of the country's top 15 jobs for 2023 that'll help you narrow down your search. (blogto.com)
  • Some occupations seeing the most demand in Canada for 2023 include the technology, healthcare, and professional services sectors. (blogto.com)
  • A recent study, found that women who worked rotating night shifts for more than six years, eleven percent experienced a shortened lifespan. (wikipedia.org)
  • Women who worked rotating night shifts for more than 15 years also experienced a 25 percent higher risk of death due to lung cancer. (wikipedia.org)
  • The company says Canadians embraced electronic commerce in 2022, and that's anticipated to last this year. (blogto.com)
  • 75% of the province of Alberta (population 4.5 million), Canada, during November 2021-January 2022. (cdc.gov)
  • When wildfire smoke engulfed jobsites on the West Coast in 2020, contractors who shut down projects faced a conundrum with owner clients, due to the lack of cover from mandates to protect workers during bad air quality periods. (constructiondive.com)
  • By February 2020, COVID‑19 was spreading globally, and in March, Canada went into a lockdown. (bankofcanada.ca)
  • The COVID‑19 pandemic took the lives of more than 15,000 Canadians in 2020. (bankofcanada.ca)
  • In the spring of 2020, the economy plunged into the deepest recession on record-putting more than three million Canadians out of work-and inflation fell to zero. (bankofcanada.ca)
  • In April 2020, as many Americans prepared to spend the Easter holiday in lockdown, pop star Mariah Carey released a video honoring the "sacrifices and courage" of frontline workers battling COVID-19 - her 1993 hit, "Hero. (medscape.com)
  • The WHO's International Agency for Research on Cancer listed "shift work that involves circadian disruption" as probably carcinogenic. (wikipedia.org)
  • In medicine and epidemiology, shift work is considered a risk factor for some health problems in some individuals, as disruption to circadian rhythms may increase the probability of developing cardiovascular disease, cognitive impairment, diabetes, altered body composition and obesity, among other conditions. (wikipedia.org)
  • When individual chronotype is opposite of shift timing (day person working night shift), there is a greater risk of circadian rhythms disruption. (wikipedia.org)
  • On May 22, over 20 women's rights and equality-seeking organizations in Canada wrote a joint letter to the federal government, calling for low-barrier emergency income supports for sex workers, who thus far have been left out of the pandemic response in Canada. (amnesty.ca)
  • Most sex worker rights groups and other grassroots organizations serving marginalized communities do not fit the stated criteria to apply for such funds because they are often not registered non-profits or charities, and are made up of the marginalized individuals who have been left out of the pandemic response. (amnesty.ca)
  • Three months into the pandemic response, Canada continues to fail its most marginalized community members by neglecting to uphold the rights of sex workers. (amnesty.ca)
  • Officials in Waterloo Region held their final scheduled COVID-19 update on Friday as the area shifts its response to the pandemic. (ctvnews.ca)
  • Labour statistics have been grim across Canada for months. (immigrationwatchcanada.org)
  • In 1867, Karl Marx wrote on the shift work system in Capital, Volume 1: Capitalist production therefore drives, by its inherent nature, towards the appropriation of labour throughout the whole of the 24 hours in the day. (wikipedia.org)
  • Canada is moving from being a country that considers immigration as a strategy for nation-building to a country that uses "low-skilled" temporary migrants as a source of cheap and disposable labour, rather than recognizing the contributions of all types of work to the Canadian economy and society. (ccrweb.ca)
  • Migrant workers are being used to address a labour demand that is not temporary. (ccrweb.ca)
  • The Government of Canada website describes the program as one that "lets employers hire foreign workers to fill temporary labour and skill shortages. (cbc.ca)
  • Some argue the program became too big for the government to control, that businesses found loopholes to hire foreign workers as cheap labour even in areas with high unemployment and that the system was creating a group of "second-class citizens" in Canada who can't upgrade their skills or work for other employers. (cbc.ca)
  • At the same time, Canadian employers say the program offers much-needed relief from labour shortages - particularly in thriving markets like the Alberta oil sands. (cbc.ca)
  • Labour is not watering down its commitment to strengthen workers' rights, Angela Rayner has said. (yahoo.com)
  • The Financial Times newspaper reported that Labour has scaled back its commitments to bolster workers' rights in an attempt to woo corporate backers, including by diluting its pledge to strengthen gig worker rights. (yahoo.com)
  • Her colleague Stephen Morgan, a shadow education minister, meanwhile suggested Labour would be both "pro-worker and pro-business" if elected, when asked about the claims. (yahoo.com)
  • In a post on Twitter, now known as X, Labour deputy leader Ms Rayner said: "Labour's New Deal for Working People will be the biggest levelling-up of workers' rights in decades - providing security, treating workers fairly, and paying a decent wage. (yahoo.com)
  • In 2021, Labour set out a series of proposals to reform employment law in a workers' rights charter. (yahoo.com)
  • Asked about the FT report by Sky News, Mr Morgan he could not comment, but said: "Obviously we will set out more detail in our manifesto, but the Labour Party can be pro-worker and pro-business. (yahoo.com)
  • Industries and occupations relying heavily on shift work include health care and social assistance, accommodation and food services, policing and security, manufacturing, warehousing and transportation. (whsc.on.ca)
  • Pointing to the lack of wage growth in occupations that are allegedly in short supply of workers, as well as limited reported job vacancies, the studies agree that the extent of skills shortages in Canada today is greatly exaggerated. (theglobeandmail.com)
  • Instead, he said, employers should "put more skin in the game" by increasing wages in high-demand occupations and by investing more in the training of Canadians. (theglobeandmail.com)
  • All that said, these studies note that we face some specific skills shortages today in a limited number of occupations and regions, and that some employers may face increasing difficulties finding workers with the right education and skills to fill available jobs in the future. (theglobeandmail.com)
  • Canada's advantages in the past - a weak Canadian dollar and government health care - have all but vanished compared with U.S. factories. (manufacturing.net)
  • The federal Canadian and Ontario province governments worked in tandem with the U.S. government on auto bailouts in 2009 to maintain Canada's share of North American auto production. (manufacturing.net)
  • Canada's temporary foreign worker program has been in the news recently. (cbc.ca)
  • But the pandemic has laid bare the true state of Canadian society, after decades of deepening social inequality, capitalist austerity, and Canada's participation in one US-led war of aggression after another. (wsws.org)
  • It began with the unemployment rate in Canada near an all-time low, inflation very close to its 2 percent target and the Bank of Canada's policy interest rate at 1Âľ percent. (bankofcanada.ca)
  • Today we are going to tackle two topics: Canada's shift to the right under Prime Minister Stephen Harper's leadership, and how democracy reigned in a small Canadian town, Kitimat, British Columbia, where they voted no to the tar sands Northern Gateway Pipeline. (therealnews.com)
  • In recent years when the economy was humming, Alberta employers put up billboards and offered generous incentives in an effort to attract workers. (immigrationwatchcanada.org)
  • It first became apparent to Cameron and fellow staff last fall that they couldn't continue as normal, helping employers attract workers. (immigrationwatchcanada.org)
  • Roughly 20 per cent of calls to the office of the Canadian Federation of Independent Business are now from employers having trouble making ends meet, former Alberta director Danielle Smith said in a recent interview. (immigrationwatchcanada.org)
  • To qualify, employers must show they tried to hire Canadians for the same jobs but couldn't. (cbc.ca)
  • This matters because it affects how and when Canadian employers hire people. (cbc.ca)
  • In a speech to the Vancouver Chamber of Commerce on Nov. 14, Employment and Skills Development Minister Jason Kenney told employers to stop complaining and to stop relying excessively upon temporary workers. (theglobeandmail.com)
  • Employers could contribute by making sure that a worker could return to the job from which she or he took a leave and, perhaps, by providing a supplementary income if the training program met the needs of their business. (theglobeandmail.com)
  • With the baby boomer generation retiring, Canadian employers see an important gap for skilled trades and blue-collar positions," said Nick Montesano, executive vice president of the central region at Randstad Canada, in a statement. (blogto.com)
  • There have been clouds and clouds of smoke generated about the impact of Ontario's impending introduction of its Harmonized Sales Tax.Ă‚ Ă‚ Fortunately there is finally now some substance out there in terms of a detailed analysis conducted by Statistics Canada that was recently released by the Ontario NDP .Ă‚ And what is shows is quite surprising. (progressive-economics.ca)
  • His interim replacement, Candice Bergen, has publicly touted the far-right elements occupying downtown Ottawa as "patriotic, peace-loving Canadians," and called on Prime Minister Trudeau to extend them an "olive branch. (wsws.org)
  • She said the Conservative Party would take up their fight in the House of Commons and, as if to prove it, tabled a motion that would demand Trudeau to move Canada to a 'post-COVID' society. (dailymail.co.uk)
  • As the grocery code of conduct nears completion, the Canadian industry's biggest player is raising concerns the guidelines could add fuel to the food inflation fire. (ctvnews.ca)
  • On Nov. 7, Benefits Canada hosted its annual Mental Health Summit, the industry's most popular and well-known conference in this space. (benefitscanada.com)
  • Together, these data suggest that the emergence of VOCs were associated with a fundamental shift in the epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2. (cdc.gov)
  • Some workers can feel blindsided by a layoff, and Frey said they're fully aware of the emotions it may stir up. (immigrationwatchcanada.org)
  • The market is definitely shifting towards compact SUVs and pickups so we've had to adjust our production schedules accordingly," she said. (mromagazine.com)
  • GM says it has too many plants that make cars as the market in both countries has shifted toward trucks and SUVs. (moneyandmarkets.com)
  • GM is cutting six car models as buyers have dramatically shifted their preferences to SUVs and trucks, which will account for about 70 percent of new-vehicle sales this year. (moneyandmarkets.com)
  • Working older: health challenges and the shifting demographics of employment? (cdc.gov)
  • Agencies that meet our eligibility criteria and are providing services and supports to individuals who need income supports, such as undocumented people or sex workers, can certainly apply for funding to serve these communities through eligible activities related to food security, mental health support, etc. (amnesty.ca)
  • We therefore call for temporary migrant workers to be included in the eligibility for federally-funded settlement services. (ccrweb.ca)
  • So, we wanted to know exactly how much sleep our fellow Canadians in other provinces were getting each night," says Sam Prochazka, CEO of Douglas, in a release. (sleepreviewmag.com)
  • Migrant workers are particularly vulnerable since there is no systematic monitoring to ensure their rights are protected (except in a few provinces which have taken the initiative to pass and enforce legislation protecting migrant worker's rights). (ccrweb.ca)
  • Some provinces have stepped up to provide access to services, but these services are often not adapted to the needs of migrant workers, or are not widely available. (ccrweb.ca)
  • In some provinces such as Quebec, Manitoba and Newfoundland, there are no services for migrant workers whatsoever. (ccrweb.ca)
  • In several instances over the past decade, malaria incidence in Canada as a whole, or in individual provinces, reached epidemic levels ( 7 ). (cdc.gov)
  • But some 35,000 Canada Revenue Agency employees were still on strike Monday - the day of the federal tax-filing deadline - as negotiations over a separate collective agreement continued. (terracestandard.com)
  • Ford has approximately 87,000 hourly workers and 35,000 salaried workers in the region. (nbcnews.com)
  • Women whose work involves night shifts have a 48% increased risk of developing breast cancer. (wikipedia.org)
  • Shift work involves work scheduled outside these "normal" hours. (whsc.on.ca)
  • We therefore call for the migrant workers from all skill categories to have the right to apply for permanent residence, and for the federal government to revise the economic immigration program to include a low-skill stream. (ccrweb.ca)
  • This study evaluated and summarized data collected over the past 22 years by local, provincial, and federal malaria surveillance systems, from Canadian federal immigration and refugee data resources and from international tourist resources, to identify and explore the causes of malaria epidemics. (cdc.gov)
  • Accounting is so in demand that it is a part of the Canadian immigration Express Entry System. (blogto.com)
  • Mohammed Nofal, 74, is alleging Global Affairs Canada and immigration officials created a discriminatory policy that denied his family help in evacuating a war zone in the days following the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel. (ctvnews.ca)
  • 4. MANILA'S COMPLIMENT OF OFFICERS: 12 Canadian based officers: one doctor, Dr. Valerie Hindle who does meds for Korea, Japan and Philippines, plus they have engaged one contract physician to assist, 2 on management issues, one on fraud, 3 for visitors and 5 for immigration. (cicnews.com)
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  • Residents of Ontario are the best sleepers in Canada, according to a recent sleep survey conducted by Douglasbed.ca, a Canadian online mattress brand. (sleepreviewmag.com)
  • Workers in the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Community are on strike across Ontario. (cupe.ca)
  • Workers at Canadian Hearing Society offices across Ontario are on strike after going four years without a contract. (cupe.ca)
  • In November in Ontario, the government announced as part of its fall economic statement that it's investing $342 million to add and upgrade the skills of more than 5,000 registered nurses and registered practical nurses and 8,000 personal support workers. (globalnews.ca)
  • Windsor Casting in Ontario also will be idled, as was previously announced following contract negotiations with the Canadian Auto Workers. (nbcnews.com)
  • Another two assembly plants to be idled will be determined later this year, and production at St. Thomas Assembly in Ontario will be reduced to one shift. (nbcnews.com)
  • In November GM announced plans to close its car factory in Oshawa, Ontario, near Toronto, costing the jobs of about 2,600 blue-collar workers. (moneyandmarkets.com)
  • Dias said the company ultimately plans to pull all of its manufacturing out of Canada, where it has two other factories in Ontario. (moneyandmarkets.com)
  • The threat of collateral damage for Ontario-based auto suppliers, auto dealers and workers is concerning, especially for an Ontario economy that is now open for business, with every opportunity to now benefit from increased trade with Mexico," GM Canada Vice President David Paterson said in a prepared statement. (moneyandmarkets.com)
  • Night shift work is attributable to hundreds of female workers who acquired breast cancer in 2011, according to a recent study. (thesafetymag.com)
  • Assuming a latency period of 10 to 50 years, The Impact of Night Shift Work on Breast Cancer: Results from the Burden of Occupational Cancer in Canada Study found that approximately two per cent to 5.2 per cent of all breast cancer cases diagnosed in women in 2011 were attributable to night shift work. (thesafetymag.com)
  • The study also said exposure to night shift work can be eliminated, in theory. (thesafetymag.com)
  • Want to read A Hard Day's Night: the effect of night shift work on work/life balance ? (whsc.on.ca)
  • Different shift schedules will have different impacts on the health of a shift worker. (wikipedia.org)
  • The TFW program started in 1973 with the goal of bringing in highly-specialized workers from other countries - like academics and engineers - to fill gaps here in Canada. (cbc.ca)
  • In the post-pandemic world, businesses face many challenges, such as budget constraints, looming skills gaps, and worker expectation shifts. (blogto.com)
  • Hourly workers may soon find their hours being curtailed as more people take to self-quarantine to stave of the threat of COVID-19. (biv.com)
  • Employment insurance and the B.C. Employment Standards Act will cover those hourly workers if their jobs are cut entirely. (biv.com)
  • Shift work increases the risk for the development of many disorders. (wikipedia.org)
  • Muscle health is also compromised by shift work: altered sleep and eating times, changes to appetite-regulating hormones and total energy expenditure, increased snacking and binge drinking, and reduced protein intake can contribute to negative protein balance, increases in insulin resistance and increases in body fat, resulting in weight gain and more long-term health challenges. (wikipedia.org)
  • Instead of trying to settle a deal to put the past four years behind and focus on moving forward, the Canadian Hearing Society is asking for a large rollback to employee health benefits, with no wage increases to address the rising cost of living. (cupe.ca)
  • Still, there is a crucial need to fill the position of commercial drivers, especially with the increases in online shopping in Canada and the current supply chain challenges. (blogto.com)
  • People working rotating shifts are more vulnerable than others. (wikipedia.org)
  • The standard explanation was that people of color were more vulnerable because they were more likely to be essential workers or have chronic health conditions. (medscape.com)
  • But some expected changes have already been leaked including a requirement to pay the workers more and tying the number of temporary foreign workers an employer is allowed to hire to the unemployment rate. (cbc.ca)
  • In line with their obligations defined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, CEDAW, as well as the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, States must pro-actively engage in activities intended to strengthen people's -including women informal workers'- access to and utilization of resources and means to ensure their livelihood, including food security, social security, and employment even in times of pandemics or natural or other disasters. (lu.se)
  • Participatory teams of workers can strengthen and broaden the scope of health promotion programs. (cdc.gov)
  • The challenge is to invest in skills to increase access to good jobs for Canadians who want to get ahead, and thus to forestall future shortages that might lower our economic potential. (theglobeandmail.com)
  • Under constant pressure due to COVID-19 and staff shortages, Hawryluck said hospital workers are forced to become more task-oriented, doing what they must to keep patients alive and losing the time to really understand them. (globalnews.ca)
  • While 34% of non-government workers feel the same way, "government workers often have no recourse because they're given little discretion over the technology tools they use," Keitt notes. (itworldcanada.com)
  • But recourse might be tricky if workers feel they're being discriminated against if they're diagnosed with COVID-19. (biv.com)
  • There have been numerous documented cases of exploitation and abuse of migrant workers, with little recourse for the workers. (ccrweb.ca)
  • The way the shift pattern is designed affects how shift workers sleep, eat and take holidays. (wikipedia.org)
  • Here in Canada, this affects many as 20 per cent of those employed are engaged in shift work involving work at night. (whsc.on.ca)
  • U.S. workers at the Detroit automakers approved a similar two-tier wage agreement five years ago, but in those agreements, workers don't automatically get the top wage after 10 years. (manufacturing.net)
  • Going into the talks, the Detroit automakers were paying an estimated $60 to $62 an hour for labor and benefits in Canada, compared with $50 an hour at Chrysler, $56 at Ford and $58 at GM, according to the Center for Automotive Research, a nonprofit research group. (manufacturing.net)
  • This blockade had become so disruptive to those automakers, a number of plants canceled shifts and sent workers home. (npr.org)
  • Canadian auto workers at Ford have voted to accept the new contract that their union leadership negotiated last week, the union said Sunday. (manufacturing.net)
  • The Canadian Auto Workers union said 82 percent of its Ford members accepted the four-year deal. (manufacturing.net)
  • The CAW represents about 21,000 auto workers in Canada and about 16 percent of auto production in North America. (manufacturing.net)
  • In addition, the United Auto Workers union in the U.S. has agreed to steeper concessions than the CAW, making U.S. labor costs cheaper. (manufacturing.net)
  • Two of the cases involve drivers communicating via hands-free cell phones, according to Jim Houlahan, vice-president of Canadian Auto Workers Local 111. (reduceyourworkerscomp.com)
  • Under the company's existing contract with the United Auto Workers, workers at the idled plants will continue to get most of their pay and benefits until a new contract is negotiated next year. (nbcnews.com)
  • The Canadian auto workers union is asking people in Canada and the U.S. to boycott General Motors vehicles made in Mexico. (moneyandmarkets.com)
  • So far the United Auto Workers union in the U.S. is not joining the boycott effort, but Dias said the unions plan to talk in early February. (moneyandmarkets.com)
  • Among the recommendations Keitt suggests for improving government workforce effectiveness is to pilot "bring your own" programs with workers who have access to portable technologies. (itworldcanada.com)
  • Forrester's report is based on the responses of 669 local and federal government information workers in the U.S. and Europe, as part of a broad workforce employee survey conducted in the third quarter of last year. (itworldcanada.com)
  • Good welders are in demand across Canada because our blue-collar workforce is retiring. (blogto.com)
  • It said both parties have agreed to jointly submit a proposal to the Public Service Commission of Canada to include seniority rights in future "workplace adjustment" plans - or changes to the workforce to reflect the executive's priorities. (terracestandard.com)
  • The Massachusetts Department of Public Health Occupational Health Surveillance Program had requested technical assistance to determine if there had been improvement in the environmental conditions and to update the health status of the workforce since a NIOSH evaluation in 1998, given that a new case of flock workers' lung occurred in 2003. (cdc.gov)
  • Has the pandemic shifted workers' situations? (yorku.ca)
  • Even though globally there are fewer women (740 million) than men (1.260 billion) in informal employment, women in the informal economy are more often found in the most precarious situations, for instance as domestic workers, home-based workers or contributing family workers. (lu.se)
  • Amidst economic fluctuations and disruptive forces, Canadian businesses are steering through uncharted waters. (itworldcanada.com)
  • Data were drawn from a longitudinal community-based cohort study of WLWH (ages 14+) in Metro Vancouver, Canada (2014-2017). (bvsalud.org)
  • Providing government information workers flexibility in work location can begin with allowing certain employees to use their personal technology for this purpose," he suggests. (itworldcanada.com)
  • Every Giving Tuesday, many Canadians generously dig into their wallets to donate to charities, but as the cost of living climbs, research suggests many Canadians are also in need of help. (ctvnews.ca)
  • The continued incidence of malaria cases and deaths in Canada suggests that the malaria surveillance system should be strengthened and used more proactively to help identify appropriate preventive measures. (cdc.gov)
  • He suggests that we think about "second chance" programs for this group, to improve their opportunities in the job market later in life and to help fill employer needs for skilled workers. (theglobeandmail.com)
  • This is in line with expected onset of vaccine induced immunity and suggests strong protection against Alpha variant covid-19 disease for both vaccines in this relatively young and healthy population of healthcare workers. (cdc.gov)
  • I think that in terms of sort of understanding where this is coming from, in terms of the rightward shift in Canada, I think that the rise of the tar sands is an important explanation of that and, you know, this is very much a sort of, you know, Texas-style oil politics, you know, associated with the George W. Bush, that the Conservatives represent their base being in Alberta. (therealnews.com)
  • Tracking Emergence and Spread of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron Variant in Large and Small Communities by Wastewater Monitoring in Alberta, Canada. (cdc.gov)
  • The practice typically sees the day divided into shifts, set periods of time during which different groups of workers perform their duties. (wikipedia.org)
  • There will be periods of time in our province with economic development where [temporary foreign workers] are necessary. (hcamag.com)
  • As a result, more government workers are tethered to their cubicles than nongovernment employees: 63% of government employees work in only one location, compared to 56% of nongovernment workers. (itworldcanada.com)
  • The term "shift work" includes both long-term night shifts and work schedules in which employees change or rotate shifts. (wikipedia.org)
  • Approximately 43 per cent of these attributable cases were diagnosed in female healthcare or social assistance professionals, 18 per cent were diagnosed in female accommodation and food services workers and 11 per cent were diagnosed each in trade employees and in manufacturing workers, the study said. (thesafetymag.com)
  • Employees complained that temporary foreign workers received more hours and more shifts, while resumes from Canadians went unanswered. (cbc.ca)
  • If a business can bring in foreign employees to work for them more cheaply, it's possible Canadians are missing out on job opportunities. (cbc.ca)
  • In a letter to employees, Canada Post says that the Shift 3 employees in the Toronto Exchange Office on Dixie Road must leave the workplace until Friday, May 7. (ctvnews.ca)
  • GM Canada says it will temporarily lay off employees at its Oshawa, Ont. (mromagazine.com)
  • Spokeswoman Jennifer Wright says that Oshawa employees who build Chevrolet Impala and Cadillac XTS passenger cars have been informed of additional down weeks but wouldn't give details of how many workers are affected or for how long. (mromagazine.com)
  • 2008) concluded that the amount of atrazine applied to the fields by an agricultural worker is likely to provide a valid surrogate of atrazine exposure in epidemiologic studies. (who.int)
  • Occupational exposure limits (OELs) are used as an important regulatory instrument to protect workers' health from adverse effects of chemical exposures. (cdc.gov)
  • This may be due to alterations in circadian rhythm: melatonin, a known tumor suppressor, is generally produced at night and late shifts may disrupt its production. (wikipedia.org)
  • The auto companies had said Canada is the most expensive place in the world to make cars and trucks, and indicated they could move production south if the CAW didn't cut costs. (manufacturing.net)
  • E-commerce demand has also created a strong need for supply chain positions like production supervisors, warehouse workers and drivers, adds Montesano. (blogto.com)
  • works as it restarts a truck assembly line and scales back car production to address shifting American buyer preferences. (mromagazine.com)
  • Dias accused GM of closing Oshawa and the U.S. factories while at the same time ramping up production in Mexico, where he says workers are paid $2 per hour. (moneyandmarkets.com)
  • The company says production at the Ingersoll plant alone is about equal to the company's retail sales in Canada. (moneyandmarkets.com)
  • Three Toyota plants in Canada are to cease production for a week due to the truck drivers' protests and blockades, and the General Motors plant in Delta Township, Michigan, which is 92 miles from the border, has canceled its second production shift due to supply chain issues. (dailymail.co.uk)
  • Governments are taking a wide range of social protection measures to protect workers including health and unemployment benefits, wage and benefits subsidies, direct cash transfers, and food assistance [4] . (lu.se)
  • CALGARY Less than year ago, Bruce Cameron was run off his feet trying to find workers for thousands of vacant jobs. (immigrationwatchcanada.org)
  • Today, he's run off his feet trying to find jobs for thousands of workers. (immigrationwatchcanada.org)
  • They had to instead focus on helping workers who were losing their jobs. (immigrationwatchcanada.org)
  • Ford also said the deal creates more than 600 jobs in Canada over the life of the contract. (manufacturing.net)
  • Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) provides support to laid-off workers and downsizing businesses impacted by jobs leaving the USA or foreign products or services making it hard to compete. (tn.gov)
  • Using temporary workers who enjoy fewer rights than permanent residents to fill long-term jobs is exploitative. (ccrweb.ca)
  • Unfortunately, the federal government proposal to introduce the Canada Jobs Grant will shift some funds away from training the most marginalized workers and toward employer-sponsored training. (theglobeandmail.com)
  • If you're looking for your first position or planning a career change this year, these top trending jobs in Canada are for you. (blogto.com)
  • From tech to trades, here are the top 15 trending jobs in Canada. (blogto.com)
  • First, social protection measures should go beyond workers who hold formal sector jobs and be extended to include informal, part-time and seasonal workers. (lu.se)
  • In the US, there are almost 2.5 million domestic workers, and according to a new survey from the National Domestic Workers Alliance, 94% of domestic workers have had clients cancel due to Covid-19, and 72% reported having no jobs for the week of 6th April at all [8] . (lu.se)
  • So, as a immigrant to Canada, my parents sent me there to study because it was internationally renowned for being reasonable, a safe place to study and raise a family, with universal healthcare, affordable education, foreign policy focused on peace and human rights. (therealnews.com)
  • In this cohort of healthcare workers where we would not anticipate vaccine type to be related to health status, we found no substantial differences in the incidence of SARS-CoV-2 infection or covid-19 disease up to 20 weeks after vaccination. (cdc.gov)
  • We're certainly in an unusual situation given the impact from the Canadian wildfires . (grahamco.com)
  • Manhattan skyline on June 8 as seen from Liberty State Park in New Jersey after smoke from Canadian wildfires blanketed New York City. (constructiondive.com)
  • The FREE Canadian Occupational Safety newsletter keeps you up to date on news and analysis about the world of occupational health and safety. (thesafetymag.com)
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  • Reached by CTV News Toronto, the union representing the workers said that COVID-19 transmission in Canada Post facilities had been a concern of his for a long time. (ctvnews.ca)
  • Summary reports of these diseases are published by both levels of reporting in provincial and territorial news bulletins and by Health Canada in the Canada Communicable Diseases Report. (cdc.gov)
  • Welcome to the Canada panel on The Real News Network. (therealnews.com)
  • We are getting our foot in the door and we are putting into place people that have the ability to shift that narrative on set. (cbc.ca)
  • We write at this time to urge that-further to your mandate to ensure that GBA+ is conducted of all government decisions-you ensure that sex workers and other women and gender diverse people working in informal economies and criminalized contexts, are not left out of the COVID-19 response. (amnesty.ca)
  • Based on a growing body of research and the experiences of working people, achieving this state of well-being is beyond the reach of many including shift workers . (whsc.on.ca)
  • It is a priority for CBC to create products that are accessible to all in Canada including people with visual, hearing, motor and cognitive challenges. (cbc.ca)
  • It is spearheaded by fascist activists who have assaulted homeless people and workers trying to enforce anti-COVID measures and brought guns and other weaponry into downtown Ottawa. (wsws.org)
  • The article posted at www.BusinessInsider.com went on to say that over 1,000 people were felled by an unknown chemical so toxic that health care workers who attended them had to wear masks. (canadianminingjournal.com)
  • That said, what has happened to Canada in the last quarter-century, and what has especially happened under the government of Stephen Harper, should finally convince people outside of Canada and all those Americans who look upon Canada as their sweet-should finally convince them that things have utterly changed. (therealnews.com)
  • Labour's New Deal for Working People will be the biggest levelling-up of workers' rights in decades - providing security, treating workers fairly, and paying a decent wage. (yahoo.com)
  • Non-unionized workers, meanwhile, should be taking a look at their own contracts as well as company policies on sick days. (biv.com)
  • It added that the illness spread after overnight shift workers ate food prepared by a catering company. (canadianminingjournal.com)
  • Take appropriate steps to safeguard your workers and pay particular attention to those with heart or lung disease, like asthma or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). (grahamco.com)
  • Swine farmers with acute cough, acute chest tightness and chronic cough symptoms had greater shift changes in FEVl than those without these symptoms (p (cdc.gov)
  • The databases used for the present analysis include 22 years of records from a local malaria reference center in Montreal, Canada (the McGill University Centre for Tropical Diseases [TDC]) and up to 13 years of quality assurance and notifiable disease surveillance databases of the provincial and federal governments of Canada, France, India, Switzerland, the United States, and the United Kingdom. (cdc.gov)
  • Thanks to the collective efforts of so many-health care providers, first responders, essential workers, governments, business leaders and every Canadian who took public health guidance to heart-a much worse catastrophe was averted. (bankofcanada.ca)
  • Governments have faced pressure throughout the pandemic to invest more money into health care and to come up with detailed plans that include how to recruit, train and retain workers to replace those who have left. (globalnews.ca)
  • Unless their governments extend the social protection schemes to include them, hundreds of millions of informal workers worldwide are facing high risks of poverty, food insecurity, and even hunger [9] , which may trigger the adoption of severe negative coping strategies that may take, in some countries, gendered forms such as child marriages or forced marriages. (lu.se)
  • We therefore call for mandatory external monitoring of workplaces hiring "low-skill" /low-wage temporary migrant workers. (ccrweb.ca)
  • Many migrant workers, and a majority of those designated as low-skill/low-wage, have no access to permanent residence.Caregivers, who until last year had a guaranteed pathway to permanent residence, now face caps on the number that can apply for permanent residence, leaving some without access. (ccrweb.ca)
  • In Canada, Ford averted a strike by reaching a tentative deal with Unifor on Tuesday that members will vote on this weekend with results expected on Sunday. (ctvnews.ca)
  • The project is led by GLRC Executive Ethel Tungohan (Associate Professor & Canada Research Chair, Politics). (yorku.ca)
  • Leo Panitch is the Canadian Research Chair in Comparative Political Economy and a distinguished research professor of political science at York University in Toronto. (therealnews.com)
  • The so-called Freedom Convoy is a far-right rabble whose views are anathema to the vast majority of the Canadian population. (wsws.org)
  • Canada Unity, which initiated the Convoy and whose leader co-heads its GoFundMe campaign, publicly calls for a putsch that would replace the democratically elected government with a junta. (wsws.org)
  • If these far-right, virulently anti-worker forces have suddenly assumed an outsized role in official political life completely at odds with their true popular support, it is because a powerful section of the ruling elite, led by the Conservative Party and right-wing media outlets like the National Post and Toronto Sun , built up the protest Convoy and fashioned it into a far-right extra-parliamentary movement. (wsws.org)
  • Canada 's Freedom Convoy movement is finding creative ways around the government's attempt to slow down protests throughout the capital city of Ottawa by circling the arrival and departure lanes at the city's airport. (dailymail.co.uk)
  • One particularly precarious group among informal workers is domestic workers - the nannies, house cleaners, and other care providers working other people's homes. (lu.se)
  • Under the Ford and GM deals, the companies will pay new workers 60 percent of the current top wage of $33.89 Canadian dollars (US$34.74) an hour, according to the CAW. (manufacturing.net)
  • A large part of this research has been focused on studying how foreign direct investments and international trade affect different labor market outcomes such as wages, wage inequality and relative demand for different types of workers. (lu.se)
  • The geopolitical systems and institutions that formed after the Second World War are coming under fire and a shift in global order is underway, said Erik Brown, a research analyst at the Global Risk Institute, when speaking at the Canadian Investment Review 's Global Investment Conference in September. (benefitscanada.com)
  • The study also found that the proportion of these urinary metabolites varied considerably depending on whether the subjects had high or low acute exposures or whether the subjects had general environmental exposures (i.e., not agricultural workers). (who.int)
  • At the time of the previous IARC evaluation of atrazine (Vol. 73, 1999), the most relevant epidemiologic studies consisted of two cohort studies of manufacturing workers, three population-based case-control studies of lymphatic and hematopoietic malignancies in agricultural areas of the U.S., and a population-based case-control study of ovarian cancer in a rice-growing area of Italy. (who.int)
  • This contrasts with those designated as "highly skilled", who have access to permanent residence under the Canadian Experience Class program. (ccrweb.ca)
  • Graduates from our postsecondary education system, together with new immigrants, will more or less match job vacancies opening up due to the retirement of highly skilled workers. (theglobeandmail.com)
  • Interior Health is seeking applicants for an exciting new opportunity as a Health Care Support Worker! (indeed.com)
  • Over 60,000 workers in health care suffer time loss injuries every year as the result of a back injury. (cupe.ca)
  • Throw the Omicron variant into the mix, and health-care workers are finding themselves in a situation of "dread mixed with a lot of worry" that hospitals will once again fill up with COVID-19 patients, Hawryluck said. (globalnews.ca)
  • Canadian health-care workers have been on the front lines throughout the pandemic, dealing with four waves of COVID-19 patients flowing through the hospital system. (globalnews.ca)
  • Our health-care workers are exhausted and they're working under very challenging circumstances right now, even before Omicron," said Dr. Tasleem Nimjee, an emergency physician in Toronto. (globalnews.ca)
  • Shift work is an employment practice designed to make use of, or provide service across, all 24 hours of the clock each day of the week (often abbreviated as 24/7). (wikipedia.org)
  • Nighttime workers sleep an average of 1-4 hours less than daytime workers. (wikipedia.org)
  • For our part, the WHSC offers Hours of Work training that addresses the issue of shift work including insight into the actions needed to eliminate or mitigate the health risks and work/life balance issues. (whsc.on.ca)
  • These workers continued to inspect the sections ahead, moving all the way across the river over the course of a few hours. (yahoo.com)
  • Thrush sees the success of Prey as a shift toward better recognition of Indigenous involvement in the film industry. (cbc.ca)
  • Just checking Barrick's website a few minutes ago, I still could not find any factual press release about that incidence - leaving the Canadian Mining Journal to go to bat on Barrick's behalf. (canadianminingjournal.com)
  • But, protesters in trucks remain in the center of the Canadian capital of Ottawa. (npr.org)
  • Canadian police cleared protesters who had been blocking a key bridge connecting Detroit to Windsor. (npr.org)
  • However, protesters in trucks, RVs and pickups remain in the center of the Canadian capital of Ottawa. (npr.org)