Even with a southern neighbour still chugging along, Canada, with its heavy dependency on commodities exports, is not immune to what happens in the rest of the world. The International...

Unpaid interns in federally regulated industries are getting closer to having some of the same labour protections paid employees get. They include 40-hour work weeks, holidays, maternity-related reassignments, leave and...

Direct employment in Canada’s oil and gas sector is expected to fall by more than 12,000 jobs this year, according to a new report from PetroLMI due to factors including...

The new federal budget includes measures designed to help Canadians upgrade their skills at work. It does this through two main programs. The first is called the Canada Training Benefit....

Canadians are fearful that a lack of training, growing automation, globalization or international conflict will rob them of their jobs. And yet, the results of the 2019 Edelman Trust Barometer indicate job-security concerns...

The country saw a rush of 66,800 net new jobs in January in a gain fuelled by a hiring surge in the private sector, Statistics Canada said. The agency’s latest labour...

Thousands of Quebec students are on strike and on Wednesday, Nov. 21, they took their message to the streets with an afternoon demonstration through downtown Montreal. They are calling for...

Private and public sector employers — and the millions of Canadians that work for them — have been scrambling to set boundaries for the use of marijuana, both on the...

The tax cuts pushed through by U.S. President Donald Trump will likely have a far larger negative impact on Canada’s economy than what would happen if Ottawa and Washington failed...

Restoring a work-life balance and better protections for part-time and temporary workers will be among the key focuses of a planned rewrite of Canada’s federal labour rules, which are to...