Posts Categorized As: Employment Standard

Blog Post #1333 – Outdated Data Used in Temporary Foreign Worker Program

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Excerpt from the OH&S Canada magazine (November 2015)

Original report by Jean Lian, Editor of the magazine)

The wage data used by Alberta government officials to determine which Temporary Foreign Worker Program to approve are deeply flawed, according to documents uncovered by the Alberta Federation of Labour (AFL).

Blog Post #982 – Improved Access to Benefits in Nova Scotia

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Excerpt from the OH&S Canada magazine

Frontline and emergency-response workers and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) will have easier access to workers’ compensation benefits starting from October 26, 2018, as changes to the Workers’ Compensation Act introduced last year no longer requires these workers to prove that their PTSD diagnosis is work-related.

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