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UN report on Canada’s temporary foreign workers details the many ways they’ve been abused

Wage theft, excessive work hours, limited breaks and physical abuse. Those are just some of the ways Canada’s temporary foreign…

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Business

Disneyland avoids strike, reaches tentative agreement with workers

Disneyland has averted the possibility of the first employee strike in 40 years by reaching a tentative agreement with 14,000…

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Nova Scotia

IMP Aerostructures workers go on strike in Amherst

Around 130 workers at IMP Aerostructures in Amherst, N.S., walked off the job on Monday, hours after 93 per cent…

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Canada

National Steel Car fined $360K for Hamilton worker’s death, another critically injured in 2022

National Steel Car has been ordered to pay over $360,000 in fines after the death of one worker and the critical…

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Politics

Government considering blocking low-wage temporary foreign workers

Employment and Workforce Development Minister Randy Boissonnault told business associations Tuesday that the federal government is considering refusing temporary foreign worker…

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Politics

Ottawa has no plans to give all undocumented workers residential status, minister says

Ottawa has no plans to broadly give residential status to undocumented migrants working in Canada, Immigration Minister Marc Miller says.…

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Politics

Privy Council Office workers face culture of ‘racial stereotyping’: internal report

Black, Indigenous and racialized employees in the Privy Council Office are regularly subjected to a culture of “racial stereotyping, microagressions and verbal…

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Business

Walmart Canada raises hourly store wages for roughly 40,000 workers

Walmart Canada said on Thursday it invested $53 million to increase hourly wages for about 40,000 of its store associates…

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Sports

2024 Paris Olympics: Workers go on strike at hotel where members are staying

Workers went on strike Thursday at the five-star hotel in Paris where members of the International Olympic Committee are staying,…

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Nova Scotia

Refugee health-care workers bringing strong skills, full hearts as they take on new jobs in a new land

Nine months following their arrival in Canada after being recruited from one of the world’s largest refugee camps, Abdifatah Sabriye and…

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