On March 26, Canada Goose CEO Dani Reiss announced 'sad news' in a LinkedIn post: the company was laying off 17 per cent of its global corporate workforce.
Canadian parents increasingly find themselves laid off while on maternity or parental leave amid a cooling labour market and mass layoffs in several sectors, such as media and tech. And that can leave them in a financial lurch under the current EI system.
New amendments to the Canada Labour Code will exempt some employees from the legislation’s hours-of-work requirements. “These amendments are a rare example of changes that employers in the federal sector will welcome and, in some respects, [will] align the CLC to Ontario’s Employment Standards Act,” says Landon Young, managing partner of Stringer LLP, a labour […]
Ontario's heavy-handed attack on workers’ rights, which circumvents Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms, poses a serious threat to labour movements and could set a precedent for dismantling the foundations of collective bargaining, reports Jeff Shantz.
The Ontario government's move to force school-support staff to stay at work by using the heavy hammer of the notwithstanding clause could have huge repercussions on labour relations, experts say.