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Landmark Westray Ruling Gives Jail Time to Supervisor for Health & Safety Negligence
Canadian Labour Congress NEWS RELEASE: Canada’s health and safety laws have more clout today, following a landmark court ruling in Ontario that saw, for the first time, a manager held criminally responsible and sentenced to prison for actions that resulted in the deaths of four workers under his watch. Unions worked for years to convince
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CEOs earn your annual salary by lunch time on day 4 of the new year
The CCPA released an important new report today looking into CEO compensation in Canada, relative to the rest of us, and the findings are appauling: According to the CCPA: January 4, 2016 TORONTO – On the first working day of the New Year, Canada’s highest paid 100 CEOs are seriously power lunching: by 12:18 pm
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CFIB Way Off Base On Pensions
Response to Elliot Sims editorial in the Winnipeg Free Press entitled Manitobans don’t want the CPP tax hike (published Dec 21/15) Elliot Sims couldn’t be more wrong when he argues “Manitobans don’t want the CPP tax hike” (Dec 21, 2015). CPP contributions are not a tax. They are savings put aside in return for a
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Harper’s Attacks on Workers Unravelling
Stephen Harper’s war on working people and their unions is the target of a Trudeau government follow-up on an election promise. C-377 is about to be swept into the trashcan of history. CLC President Hassan Yussuff explains in a letter to affiliated unions.
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All workers eligible for presumptive PTSD coverage January 1
The MFL commends the provincial government on today’s announcement that presumptive PTSD coverage will take effect for all workers starting on new year’s day: PROVINCE ANNOUNCES FIRST-IN-CANADA POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER LEGISLATION COMING INTO EFFECT JAN. 1– – –Coverage Accessible to All Workers under Groundbreaking Changes to Workers Compensation Act: Premier Selinger Changes to the Workers