December 23, 2011
From the Homeless Hub:
30,000 Hamiltonians are working and still living in poverty. How is this possible? It used to be that if someone was having a tough time making ends meet, the simple answer was...
Poverty Research, Workers' Rights, Ontario
October 17, 2011
Since 1993, today has been recognized by the United Nations, and its members around the world, as International day for the eradication of poverty 2011. Today, October 17, 2011, the United Nations...
Government Policy, Homelessness, Housing, Human Rights, Unemployment, Welfare, Women, Workers' Rights, International
August 11, 2011
100 Mile House & District Women's Centre has received funding from the Legal Services Society to provide a range of legal services in the 100 Mile House area. More details area available in this...
Legal Aid, Tenants' Rights, Welfare, Women, Workers' Rights, British Columbia
June 17, 2011
The Statistics Canada data on the number of Albertans whose income falls below the Market Basket Measure of low income was released June 15th, 2011. The Edmonton Social Planning Council news release...
Alberta, Housing, Poverty Research, Workers' Rights
May 13, 2011
The Workers' Action Centre’s latest report exposes a reality of work where wages, overtime and vacation goes unpaid and people work at less than minimum wage. Based on a survey of 520 people in low-...
Workers' Rights, Ontario
January 25, 2011
The Employment Standards Branch has just ordered Khaira Enterprises Ltd., a treeplanting company to pay $228,687.51 to tree planters who worked for the company from March to July, 2010. Most of the...
Workers' Rights, British Columbia
January 14, 2011
More than 50 Filipino migrant workers recruited to Canada under the Temporary Foreign Workers (TFW) program have filed a $10 million class action suit against Denny’s restaurants in British Columbia...
Immigrants and Refugees, Workers' Rights, British Columbia
December 10, 2010
Lawyers at the BC Public Interest Advocacy Centre (BCPIAC) are calling on the government to act quickly to remedy injustices experienced by tree planters formerly employed by Khaira Enterprises Ltd (...
Workers' Rights, British Columbia
November 23, 2010
Are you an injured worker in Ontario?
The Ontario Network of Injured Workers' Groups needs your help to make workers' compensation better for injured workers. Fill out the Injured Workers and Poverty...
Workers' Rights, Ontario
November 12, 2010
Given the current climate of austerity measures and neo-liberal cutbacks it’s was a rare win for working families. In the new issue of This Magazine (this.org) they have a great piece looking back at...
Workers' Rights, British Columbia
May 4, 2010
Two earners in a family of four must each make at least $18 an hour to afford basic rent, food, childcare and transportation in metro Vancouver, according to a report by CCPA.
New Westminister...
Family, Workers' Rights, British Columbia
October 1, 2009
Overall, analysts say that Bill C-50 will temporarily give additional employment insurance benefits to unemployed long-tenured workers. Most agree that this is not the EI reform that workers and the...
employment insurance, Government Policy, Unemployment, Workers' Rights, All of Canada
July 31, 2009
An editorial by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives reveals how the BC government has been stonewalling requests to disclose Employment Standards enforcement records for farmworkers. A review...
Workers' Rights, British Columbia
March 16, 2009
The City of Calgary has tentatively agreed to a guaranteed "living wage" for its part-time and full-time employees but it won't extend the guarantee to on-call and casual workers, the only ones who...
Alberta, Workers' Rights
January 9, 2009
According to a report by the Fraser Institute, increasing the minimum wage in BC and across Canada to $10 will boost unemployment, especially for young people. The BC Federation of Labour and the...
Government Policy, Workers' Rights, All of Canada
December 18, 2008
Seven foreign agriculture workers recently fired and evicted by Canada’s largest mushroom producer, Rol-Land Farms, joined members of UFCW Canada, Justicia for Migrant Workers, and academics to speak...
Immigrants and Refugees, Workers' Rights, Ontario
December 5, 2008
Latin American workers who helped build the underground tunnel in Vancouver for the Canada Line have won a human rights tribunal against their employers, SELI Canada Inc. and SNC Lavalin Constructors...
Ethnicity and Race, Human Rights, Workers' Rights, British Columbia
October 5, 2008
PEI raised its minimum wage from $7.75 to $8.00 but advocates and poverty organizations say that it is still not enough for the basic necessities. A Statistics Canada report says average weekly wages...
Workers' Rights, Prince Edward Island
September 20, 2008
Immigrants and Refugees, Organizing, Workers' Rights, British Columbia
August 27, 2008
While the BC Liberal government refuses to increase the minimum wage and protect some of the most vulnerable workers, they did decide to give senior government beaurocrats a massive pay raise -- an...
Government Policy, Workers' Rights, British Columbia
June 22, 2008
CCPA has released a study called Cultivating Farmworker Rights: Ending the Exploitation of Immigrant and Migrant Farmworkers in BC. It reveals systematic violations of employment standards and health...
Workers' Rights, British Columbia
May 20, 2008
In the last budget, the federal government promised to create a new independent body, the Canada Employment Insurance Financing Board to determine EI premium rates from 2009 and on. However,...
Unemployment, Workers' Rights, All of Canada
February 13, 2008
The Caledon Institute has released a policy paper, Canadians Need a Medium-Term Sickness/Disability Income Benefit (in PDF) discussing the possibility of a new sickness or disability benefit. The...
Disability, Health, Workers' Rights, All of Canada
November 22, 2007
New Brunswick will be increasing the minimum wage to $7.75 and will continue to review the wage at least once a year to bring the wage in line with standards of living. (Read more on CBC, "N.B.'s...
Workers' Rights, New Brunswick
November 22, 2007
CUPE has published a short but thorough overview of low wage work in Canada by province and demographic group. Read "Low paid work still widespread in Canada" on the CUPE website.
Workers' Rights, All of Canada
July 11, 2007
Alberta Ministry of Employment, Immigration and Industry is the department responsible for welfare (income support) in Alberta.
Alberta, Unemployment, Welfare, Workers' Rights, Government information
March 28, 2007
CCPA released a report, Bringing Minimum Wages Above the Poverty Line (in PDF) that shows provincial governments have allowed the value of minimum wages to be eaten away by inflation for too long....
Workers' Rights, Ontario, All of Canada
March 15, 2007
On March 7th, a van carrying farmworkers in BC's Fraser Valley crashed, killing three people. According to an article in the Tyee,"Farm Workers' Deaths: A Tragedy Foretold," farm worker advocates,...
Workers' Rights, British Columbia
February 18, 2007
Just about everyone agrees that a minimum wage is not a living wage. A couple of articles make more arguments for increasing the minimum wage. An article on Rabble.ca, "Making the minimum wage a...
Workers' Rights, All of Canada
November 3, 2006
The campaign for living wages has gathered momentum with bills sponsored by NDP members in both the federal Parliament and the Ontario legislature to increase the minimum wage to $10/hour. The just-...
Workers' Rights, Ontario
September 17, 2006
Pivot's report, Beyond Decriminalization: Sex Work, Human Rights and a New Framework for Law Reform presents the results of two years of research and in depth discussions with eighty-four sex workers...
Human Rights, Legal Research, Women, Workers' Rights, All of Canada
July 4, 2006
The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) June 2006 paper looks at the question of wage supplements. Read the 13 page CCPA report (in PDF.)
Government Policy, Workers' Rights, All of Canada
June 7, 2006
The May 2006 edition of E-Network (in PDF) - a Canadian Policy Research Network publication - contains stories on vulnerable workers, poverty in Canada and a link to their spring newsletter.
Workers' Rights, All of Canada
June 7, 2006
Justicia for Migrant Workers (J4MW) is a volunteer driven political non-profit collective comprised of committed activists from diverse walks of life (including labour activists, educators,...
Organizing, Workers' Rights, All of Canada
May 5, 2006
The CBC report, "Dying for a job," is the result of three years of research. Journalists with CBC's Investigative Unit navigated freedom of information laws and negotiated for data from workplace...
Workers' Rights, All of Canada
May 3, 2006
Quebec's minimum wage increased by 15 cents today. Workers are criticizing this so-called wage "hike" saying that it is not high enough to cover their basic costs of living. See the Montreal Gazette...
Workers' Rights, Québec
February 14, 2006
A year-long appeal by 76 largely poor and elderly Indo-Canadian Farmworkers began in Tax Court in Vancouver on January 9th. The Farmworkers are appealing rulings by the Canada Revenue Agency that...
Unemployment, Workers' Rights, British Columbia
February 8, 2006
Vulnerable workers are those whose participation in the labour market leaves their well-being at risk because of difficulty accessing work that is decently paid and/or that offers conditions of work...
Workers' Rights, All of Canada
