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A comprehensive study released today by CUPE shows there’s no evidence public sector workers are paid consistently more than those in similar jobs in the private sector. Instead, overall average pay in the public sector is remarkably similar when compared against similar jobs in the private sector: only 0.5 per cent higher. This public sector [...]
Posted by Toby Sanger under CFIB, inequality, wages.
December 13th, 2011
Comments: 11
One of my pet beefs is the frequently heard CFIB claim that small businesses are the job creators, not large enterprises. What is small and what is big? It all depends on whether you look at the size of the workplace, or the number of employees of a company at all locations. Wal Mart may [...]
Posted by Andrew Jackson under CFIB, labour market.
February 23rd, 2011
Comments: 12
In a carefully timed intervention coming shortly before Finance Ministers meet to discuss retirement income reform, the Canadian Federation of Independent Business today released an econometric study by Peter Dungan of the University of Toronto on the economic impacts of the CLC proposal to double the Canada Pension Plan replacement rate, The CFIB regards CPP [...]
Posted by Andrew Jackson under CFIB, pensions.
November 25th, 2010
Comments: 3