The changing economic climate is also
keeping labour and employment boutiques on their toes.
Not exact matches
This third pillar includes raising the minimum wage in a transparent
and predictable manner, improving associated
employment standards legislation,
and generally making sure
labour laws have
kept pace with what's happening in workplaces across the country.
Even more significant, the strong expansion of the
labour force
and employment as shown by the (separate) household survey in February
and March (averaging 388,000 per month)
kept the unemployment rate at 5.0 % in March.
«A growing shortage of highly skilled
labour is becoming desperate, threatening our ability to
keep up in a global, knowledge - based economy... Our
Employment Insurance Program perpetuates regional disparity
and discourages Canadians from relocating to where work is available.»
The CIOT argues that the system for exempting from tax employees»
employment expenses
and certain employer - provided «benefits» needs to be simplified if it is to
keep pace with changes in the
labour market
and the move away from «traditional»
employment.
«Now that we have so many models of
employment,» says Kastner, «the sense among workers» advocates in particular is that workers don't have the range [of protections] that they once had,
and that legislation doesn't
keep up» with the changing
labour marketplace.
New
labour and employment legislation is urgently needed to
keep pace with increased automation.»
CEOs, HR directors
and other company personnel
keep our
employment and labour lawyers on speed dial.
A slew of government pronouncements on everything from strike laws to arbitration rules are helping to
keep Canada's
labour and employment boutiques busy.
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employment law,
employment standards act, equal pay for equal work, Family Medical Leave, Holidays, independent contractors,
Labour Relations Act, minimum wage, occupational health
and safety act, on - call work, ontario
employment standards act, overtime pay, personal emergency leave, pregnancy
and parental leaves, Public Holiday Pay, record
keeping, temporary layoff, termination, Vacations