A job fair was held on Saturday to help people fleeing the war in Ukraine get jobs in Calgary. The streets were lined outside St. Vladimir’s Church — hundreds of people fleeing the war in Ukraine eager to find work in Calgary. Olena Ivanenko arrived in Calgary on June 3 with her son. She attended[…]
With the busy summer season on the horizon and British Columbia relaxing COVID-19 restrictions, businesses are scrambling to hire in what was already a tight labour market. The hospitality sector is among those already grappling with staff shortages. That’s expected to worsen once patios open for the season. Kelly Gordon, a partner with the group[…]
Statistics Canada has released its monthly job numbers and found that Kelowna had an unemployment rate of 4.4 per cent. Local business owners are not surprised at the unemployment rate in the Central Okanagan. Read more: Restaurants still struggling as unemployment nears pre-COVID-19 levels: industry body Amarjit Singh Lalli owns multiple small businesses in[…]
[ad_1] These are not the numbers the NDP was hoping for heading into a spring election campaign. Jobs in Alberta are down for the second straight month. Tom Vernon has the details. [ad_2] Source link
[ad_1] A growing number of people employed by the City of Edmonton say they face harassment or experience discrimination on the job, and abuse from members of the public is a growing source of that aggravation, according to a City of Edmonton executive report released on Thursday. The 2018 City of Edmonton Employee Engagement and[…]
[ad_1] Before heading out in the winter, Scarborough resident Sarah Adisa wraps her hair in a simple black scarf. “The texture of my hair, it breaks in this cold weather. I protect it unless it’s braided,” explained Adisa. She said she never imagined the wrap could cost her a job. “‘We don’t allow head wraps[…]
[ad_1] Driver examiners in Alberta are off the job Thursday after threatening to withhold services if the province didn’t meet their demands as the Alberta government prepares to take back control of the industry. Pete Llewellyn with the Certified Driver Examiners Association says the examiners’ demand for fair market value for their businesses fell on[…]
[ad_1] Unionized workers at the General Motors Oshawa Assembly Plant have walked off the job, hours after the company reaffirmed its plans to shut down the facility by the end of the year. “The workers were so upset they couldn’t work. They couldn’t believe that General Motors had announced that all their hard work was[…]
[ad_1] Tue, Jan 8: Alberta driver examiners are threatening job action if the province doesn’t compensate them for closing their private businesses. [ad_2] Source link
[ad_1] Alberta’s driver examiners are threatening to walk off the job this week if the provincial government doesn’t meet their demands ahead of the deprivatization of their industry. Transportation Minister Brian Mason announced in October the province was taking back driver’s licence road testing from the private sector, one of several changes proposed following the[…]