[ad_1] Violence-related injuries at work are on the rise across Canada and this is especially the case for women, according to two recent studies we conducted at the not-for-profit Institute for Work and Health. We found that women are four times more likely than men to experience sexual assault or unwanted touching on the job,[…]
[ad_1] After two years of keeping the pedal to the metal, there are signs that the Canadian economy is going to ease off the gas a bit in 2019. But there is no sign yet of that expected slowdown in the labour market. Unemployment is still at 5.6 per cent, a 40-year low. https://positivesaathi.com/ There[…]
[ad_1] Alice Clark wanted to be a Mountie before women were even permitted to join the force. But when she joined in 1981, it wasn’t the honourable job she was expecting. After experiencing years of harassment, Clark left the force and became the first woman to successfully sue the RCMP for sexual harassment. READ MORE: $220M[…]
[ad_1] The Alberta government is full steam ahead on an advertising campaign trying to convince Canadians that the Trans Mountain Pipeline is a must-build project. Work began on the Keep Canada Working campaign back in January, and as recently as November, the government said it had spent $10 million on the project. But on Jan.[…]
[ad_1] Cross-country research led by the University of Ottawa, backed by $1.4M in federal funding, aims to get a better sense of mental health problems on the job — and offer solutions. “Looking at issues around psychological health and safety particularly at work, the opportunities to take leaves of absence and to encourage return to[…]
[ad_1] Frontenac County is on a hiring spree for paramedics, and 21 slot gacor 777 new recruits are currently undergoing training to work in the Kingston area. Mike van Hartingsveldt, superintendent of performance standards with Frontenac County, and others are currently putting the new recruits through their paces as part of a 12-day orientation period. “They’re[…]
[ad_1] Sang-Hun Mun came to Toronto from Korea in 2004 and began a carpentry apprenticeship. The following year, he fell off a roof onto the concrete ground below. “I broke my right foot…I got injured, my neck and shoulder and back,” he said. Mun still feels the effects of that injury today. He says he[…]
[ad_1] Getting back into a career after staying home to raise kids can be daunting, especially competing against people who haven’t left the workforce. “I had my hands in a lot of things, but I never really had a career,” Carlin Getz said. She stayed at home for 11 years to raise three kids. During[…]
[ad_1] It’s been nearly 18 years since the tragedy in Walkerton, Ont., and time has ticked on slowly in the small community. On May 17, 2000, the first symptoms of E. coli contamination were reported in the town, however it took days before citizens were told not to drink the local tap water. Resident Audrey[…]
[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[…]