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Archive for 'employment standards'

Severance Pay and Public Servants

I am an economist, not a lawyer or expert on the collective agreements in the federal public service, but I can still detect a hatchet job. The CBC have given a lot of play to a Greg Weston story that allegedly generous severance payments to public servants amounting to as much as $2 Billion will [...]

Posted by Andrew Jackson under Canadian Taxpayers Federation, employment standards, federal budget, labour adjustment.
March 14th, 2012
Comments: 4

CBC on Discrimination – appearance

I just had a telling experience with the CBC in Vancouver. Their show “On the Coast” was doing a piece on the discriminatory experience of a young women who applied for a job at Joey Restaurants. She went through their training period (which consisted largely of tips about how to dress and apply makeup), but [...]

Posted by Marjorie Cohen under BC, employment standards, gender critique, women.
June 2nd, 2010
Comments: 5

The Workers’ Olympics?

On the eve of the Beijing Olympics, recognition should certainly go to the scores of workers who toiled to build the stunning spors palaces and who have made China into the economic powerhouse it is today.  Instead, many have received layoff notices and warnings to leave the Chinese capital, as the New York Times reported [...]

Posted by Toby Sanger under China, employment standards, globalization, inflation, migrant workers, Olympics, wages.
August 7th, 2008
Comments: 4

Denying income inequality won’t make it go away

The Vancouver Sun ran an opinion piece by yours truly that revisits the recent Statistics Canada release of income and earnings numbers for 2006 … Denying income inequality won’t make it go away Iglika Ivanova, Special to the Sun Published: Tuesday, June 24, 2008 The May release of the 2006 Census data on earnings and incomes [...]

Posted by Iglika Ivanova under BC, employment standards, inequality, Role of government.
June 26th, 2008
Comments: 1

Labour Policies and the Wage Gap

A fine editorial from Marjorie Cohen in today’s Vancouver Sun  on the close link between labour policies and wage inequality. http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/editorial/story.html?id=4952dab6-b337-42b9-b872-5b338ef3f212&k=85286&p=2

Posted by Andrew Jackson under employment standards, unions.
May 22nd, 2008
Comments: 5