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Financial services firms ease teams back to office with hybrid work
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international business
UPS to hire more than 100,000 seasonal workers to deal with holiday rush
This is the UPS logo on the side of a delivery truck in Mount Lebanon, Pa., on Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2021. United Parcel Service said Wednesday, Sept 7, 2022, it plans to hire more than 100,000 extra workers to help handle an increase in packages during the critical holiday season. That’s similar to the holiday seasons of 2021 and 2020. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
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Toronto Labour Day parade highlights how Gen Z is revitalizing the workers’ movement
Participants chant as they march through Toronto during the Labour Day Parade on Monday, September 5, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/ Tijana Martin
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Cannabis producer Tilray lays off at least 22 migrant farm workers
FILE PHOTO: Cannabis plants grow inside the Tilray factory hothouse in Cantanhede, Portugal April 24, 2019. REUTERS/Rafael Marchante/File Photo
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Loomis Express workers serve strike notice, could walk off the job Wednesday
The Unifor logo is displayed on a flag outside the Toyota plant in Cambridge, Ont. on March 31, 2014.
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Union worked with Uber to ensure Ontario government would not classify gig workers as employees, documents show
An Uber driver picks up a fare, at Union station, in Toronto, on Wednesday, August 24, 2022. (Christopher Katsarov/The Globe and Mail)
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Filling Canada’s labour gaps with migrant workers
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Strike begins at Britain’s biggest shipping port, adding to industrial chaos
Shipping containers sit on the Port of Felixstowe in Suffolk, Sunday Aug. 21, 2022. Almost 2,000 workers at the U.K.'s biggest container port are launching an eight-day strike this Sunday over a pay dispute, the latest industrial action to hit the U.K. economy. (Joe Giddens/PA via AP)
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Train service disrupted again in Britain as unions stage new round of strikes
Commuters walk at Waterloo Station in London on August 18, 2022 as Britain's train network faced further heavy disruption in major walkouts that follow the sector's biggest strike action for 30 years already this summer. - Railway and postal staff, dockers too. Britain's workers are striking in vast numbers as decades-high inflation erodes the value of wages at a record pace. (Photo by CARLOS JASSO / AFP) (Photo by CARLOS JASSO/AFP via Getty Images)
canada
Ontario tribunal rules OPP discriminated against migrant workers in 2013
An Ontario Provincial Police crest is displayed on the arm of an officer during a press conference in Vaughan, Ont., Thursday, June 20, 2019. The OPP have asked another force to investigate a "physical confrontation" between an officer and a young person on a scooter in Gravenhurst, Ont. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andrew Lahodynskyj
opinion
Millennials, stop throwing shade on your Gen Z colleagues at work. Learn from them instead
Rita Trichur
education
Ontario proposes 2% raise for lower-paid education workers
Stephen Lecce, Minister of Education for Ontario makes an announcement in Toronto on January 12, 2022. Ontario is proposing to give education workers represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees who make less than $40,000 a two-per-cent raise per year. For workers who earn over that amount, the government proposes giving them raises of 1.25 per cent each year of a four-year deal. CUPE - which represents 55,000 workers including early childhood educators, school administration workers, bus drivers and custodians - has published the government's first offer to them in contract negotiations. Education Minister Stephen Lecce says in a statement that the government's proposal is reasonable, fair and provides stability. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette
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Ontario education union planning strike votes, says doesn’t mean strike will happen
School buses are seen in a lot in Ottawa on April 18, 2022. A union representing Ontario education workers is asking the province for annual wage increases of $3.25 per hour -- or 11.7 per cent -- as the two sides hash out a new collective agreement. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
economy
Canadian employers are ramping up their search for temporary foreign workers amid labour crunch
A temporary foreign worker from Mexico plants strawberries on a farm in Mirabel, Que., Wednesday, May 6, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Graham Hughes
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Gotcare shaking up the home care industry by pairing workers with clients, paying workers a living wage
Chenny Xia, CEO and co-founder of Gotcare, poses for a photo in her office in Toronto, Sunday, July 31, 2022. (Galit Rodan/The Globe and Mail)
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Union wants 11.7 per cent raise for Ontario education workers in bargaining proposal
Ontario Education Minister Stephen Lecce arrives for Premier Doug Ford's cabinet announcement and swearing-in ceremony at Queen’s Park in Toronto on June 24, 2022. Lecce says the government is confident students will be returning to school with full extracurriculars in September. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette
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Union says some Quebec health workers sick with COVID-19 being asked back to work
The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine is prepared at the Palais des Congres, as efforts continue to help slow the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Montreal, Quebec, Canada March 15, 2021. REUTERS/Andrej Ivanov
career advice
What courts say about rights of dependent contractors should be a wake-up call for businesses
Daniel Lublin
world
Exodus of Ukrainian workers hits Europe’s emerging economies
Elena Nelova, a-43-year old Ukrainian refugee woman, stands next to a forklift at a warehouse where she works in Gorzow Wielkopolski, Poland July 14, 2022. REUTERS/Fanny Brodersen
u.s. business
Lululemon workers in Washington, D.C. file for a union election
FILE - This June 5, 2017, file photo, shows a Lululemon Athletica logo outside a store on Newbury Street in Boston. Lululemon workers in Washington, D.C. have filed for a union election, joining the ranks of workers at other major companies pushing to organize their facilities. The petition was filed Wednesday, July 20, 2022, by a group that calls itself the Association of Concerted Educators. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)