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| Train immigrants to fill skills void: Crane |
| Source: JournalPioneer.com |
| Date: 28-Jan-2011 |
| P.E.I.'s Opposition leader is urging businesses to fill their employment needs, in part, with skilled immigrant workers.
Olive Crane even suggested the creation of a nationally-accredited centre to train those workers would be a good fit for Summerside.
Crane was the guest speaker at the Greater Summerside Chamber of Commerce President's Dinner Wednesday night, and called the void ... (read more on JournalPioneer.com) |
| Slave' conditions for BC tree planters spark calls to industry association |
| Source: dailybusinessbuzz.ca |
| Date: 27-Jan-2011 |
| The plight of dozens of tree planters subjected to squalid conditions while working in British Columbia's remote forestry camps is “a national embarrassment,” says an industry spokesman.
“This has been a black eye for our sector,” said John Betts, executive director of the Western Silvicultural Contractors' Association, which represents most tree-planting companies in Western Canada.... (read more on dailybusinessbuzz.ca) |
| "Problem" managers plague Canadian workplaces |
| Source: dailybusinessbuzz.ca |
| Date: 26-Jan-2011 |
| The majority of Canadian HR professionals (73 per cent) believe managers who bully, speak inappropriately to staff, play favourites or are disrespectful are a significant problem in today's workplace with negative implications on employee engagement, turnover and workplace morale, according to a recent survey by the Human Resources Professionals Association (HRPA) and Canadian HR Reporter.
... (read more on dailybusinessbuzz.ca) |
| Higgs suggests two-tiered minimum wage |
| Source: CBC.ca |
| Date: 21-Jan-2011 |
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| New Brunswick Finance Minister Blaine Higgs is floating the idea of a two-tiered minimum wage.
Blaine Higgs brought up the idea during a pre-budget public meeting in St. Stephen on Wednesday night but he has received little positive feedback from businesses or workers.
The base hourly rate in New Brunswick is $9, and there are plans to increase it to $10 by September.
Higgs suggested keep... (read more on CBC.ca) |
| Farm workers build their skills |
| Source: atlanticfarmfocus.ca |
| Date: 18-Jan-2011 |
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| Slemon Park, PEI —It didn't look like ideal weather for farming, but the snowy conditions couldn't keep this group from their tractors.
Close to 20 Islanders in the Prince Edward Island Farm Technician Apprenticeship program completed an obstacle course at Slemon Park on Friday (Jan. 7) as part of their safety training.
The program, run by the Nova Scotia Agricultural College (NSAC... (read more on atlanticfarmfocus.ca) |
| Jobs still not recovering on PEI |
| Source: CBC.ca |
| Date: 11-Jan-2011 |
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The unemployment rate on P.E.I. dipped below 12 per cent in December for the first time in months, but the drop was largely due to people leaving the labour force.
Statistics Canada's Labour Force Survey, released Friday, listed the unemployment rate on P.E.I. at 11.9 per cent, but it shows the number of jobs on the Island actually fell, from 71,000 in November to 70,700 in December. A c... (read more on CBC.ca) |
| Witches cast hexes over tax on toils |
| Source: TheChronicleHerald.ca, by A. Mutler |
| Date: 06-Jan-2011 |
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SOLACE FOR WORLD leaders trying to enforce painful austerity measures: At least you’re not running Romania.
Angry witches are using cat excrement and dead dogs to cast spells on the president and government who are forcing them to pay taxes. Also in the eye of the taxman are fortune tellers, who should have seen it coming.
And President Traian Basescu isn’t laughing it off. In a country wh... (read more on TheChronicleHerald.ca) |
| Farm column: Hispanic labor force has been a boon for American farmers |
| Source: fdlreporter.com, by A. Martens |
| Date: 04-Jan-2011 |
| The efficiency of the American farmer has increased tremendously.
Two men with a little part-time help and modern equipment can produce several thousand tons of corn or wheat in a year.
But dairy farming still requires a tremendous amount of labor in harvesting milk and caring for animals.
On most dairy farms, there is still one employee per 50 to 100 cows. Robot milkers are coming, but a... (read more on fdlreporter.com) |
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| Stephenville going strong five years after mill shutdown: Burke |
| Source: TheWesternStar.com |
| Date: 31-Dec-2010 |
| STEPHENVILLE, NB - While she has no leadership aspirations, Joan Burke has no plans to leave politics soon and is still planning on running in next year’s provincial election.
Of Danny Williams’ cabinet in 2003, she is one of just three of the original cabinet members left, which in addition to her include Dunderdale and Tom Marshall. She has served in a number of portfolios since that time a... (read more on TheWesternStar.com) |
| NS job seekers look to Alberta oilsands |
| Source: CBC.ca |
| Date: 31-Dec-2010 |
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Things are looking up for some job hunters in Nova Scotia.
A new multibillion-dollar oilsands project in Alberta that needs hundreds of skilled-trades workers will start early in the new year.
Tammy Marshe, with the New Waterford Employment Resource Center in Cape Breton, said the Kiewit Oil Sands project will run for three to five years and will need 4,500 workers in the first phase alone... (read more on CBC.ca) |
| Pay for PEI workers remains lowest |
| Source: CBC.ca |
| Date: 30-Dec-2010 |
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The average weekly earnings for Prince Edward Islanders remain the lowest in the country by a considerable margin, and are also growing at the slowest rate.
Weekly Earnings:
Value Annual Growth
P.E.I. $703.84 +0.1%
New Brunswick $764.95 +1.3%
Canada $863.33 +4.4%
A report from Statistics Canada last week shows earnings overall appear to be recovering after the recession. The year-over-... (read more on CBC.ca) |
| Maritime workers believe bosses will make investments |
| Source: CanadaEast.com |
| Date: 28-Dec-2010 |
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Maritime workers more than any other Canadians believe their bosses will invest in them in 2011, a new survey says.
A study from BMO Bank of Montreal released recently found that 33 per cent of working Canadians think that their employer will invest in employee training and development next year, while in Atlantic Canada more than anywhere else, workers believe their bosses will be investing ... (read more on CanadaEast.com) |
| No time set for mill to repay deferred wages |
| Source: TheTelegram.com, by G. Kean |
| Date: 23-Dec-2010 |
| Corner Brook — The wage deferral agreement reached between Corner Brook Pulp and Paper and its unionized employees last February is set to expire Dec. 31, but there is no clear date as to when workers will get their money back.
The eight unions at the mill all agreed to the concession in order to help the mill get through the ongoing tough economic times the entire newsprint industry is struggl... (read more on TheTelegram.com) |
| Federation fighting Workers Comp. rate increases |
| Source: CBC.ca |
| Date: 23-Dec-2010 |
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The P.E.I. Federation of Agriculture says it will not give up on trying to get the new Workers Compensation rates changed.
Potato and livestock farmers will see a 21 per cent increase as of January 1st.
"We haven't gotten anywhere with our efforts," said John Jamieson, executive director of the federation. "Essentially, we've been told by Worker's Comp that th... (read more on CBC.ca) |
| Cooke Aquaculture promises hundreds of jobs - if application is approved |
| Source: dailybusinessbuzz.ca, by Leanne Delong |
| Date: 22-Dec-2010 |
| DIGBY, NS - Cooke Aquaculture plans to bring over 200 direct and indirect jobs to Digby County by creating a new fish hatchery, small-scale processing and feed warehouse distribution centre if it application to put a 42-hectare fish farm in St. Mary’s Bay is approved.
“For Digby, we’re looking at building a new fish hatchery, which would be a land-based building where we have large tanks to rai... (read more on dailybusinessbuzz.ca) |
| Fraser Papers to appeal pension decision |
| Source: Telegraph-Journal |
| Date: 15-Dec-2010 |
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| Fraser Papers has filed an appeal of a decision by the Superintendent of Pensions that further cut the pensions of former New Brunswick employees.
Former New Brunswick employees of the forestry company learned last week that on top of the 31 per cent they lost because their pension plan was underfunded when the company entered bankruptcy protection last year, they're now facing an addition... (read more on Telegraph-Journal) |
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