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Best Practices/Practical Guide
5 Models for the Post-Pandemic Workplace
Leaders weighing these potential workplace options should look to their company’s purpose and strategy, as well as their employees’ preferences and work styles.Last updated Jul 29, 2024
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Tool
WESO Toolkit Training
The Wired: Evaluating Settlement Online (WESO), an IRCC-funded SDI project located at the YMCA of the National Capital Region (Ottawa), would like to introduce you to our research-based evaluation toolkit for settlement organizations to help you measure and improve the quality ofLast updated Jul 24, 2024
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Glossary/Factsheet
Changes to EI sickness benefits
On December 18, 2022, the Canadian government increased the number of weeks that workers can get Employment Insurance (EI) sickness benefits. Workers who started their claims on or after December 18 can get up to 26 weeks of benefits. For claims started before that date, workersLast updated Jan 19, 2023
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Best Practices/Practical Guide
CLEO's New Guided Pathway for Open Work Permits
CLEO has a new Guided Pathway to help people fill out draft forms to apply for an open work permit in Canada. An open work permit allows someone to work for any employer in Canada. The pathway provides all the details on who is eligible, and what information and documents theyLast updated Jan 16, 2023
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Course/Training
OCASI Professional Education and Training Program (PET)
Under the PET project, assistance is available to frontline staff working in organizations funded by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC), to enhance their skills and gain knowledge through individual courses.Last updated Nov 4, 2022
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Beyond Diversity: An LGBT Best Practice Guide for Employers
In celebration of Pride month, we share this resource guide developped by Pride at Work Canada in relations to creating an open and safe work place for the LGBTQIA+ community.Last updated Jun 22, 2022
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Best Practices/Practical Guide
New Rules About Working While Getting Employment Insurance
Please note: In response to COVID-19 the Federal Government has established an Emergency Response Plan to help individual business and non-profits. Applications for the Canada Emergency Response Benefits are now open.Last updated Apr 13, 2020
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Best Practices/Practical Guide
Work in your profession or trade
Learn about the services available in Ontario to help you continue working in your profession or trade if you’ve been trained in another country.Last updated Jul 18, 2019
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Best Practices/Practical Guide
Can an Employer Tell an Employee What to Wear at Work?
This resource from Step to Justice (CLEO) provides explanation about the law in Ontario on dress codes in the workplace.Last updated Aug 14, 2018
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Best Practices/Practical Guide
Personal Emergency Leave for Workers in Ontario
Many workers don't know about their right to take personal emergency leave. And people may think that they don't have this right because they work part-time or are new at their job. This resource is about personal emergency leave, who gets it, and how it can be used.Last updated Aug 14, 2018
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Canada not doing enough with its highly educated immigrants, StatsCan says
Jessica Wong · CBC News · Posted: Dec 01, 2022
Being a physician has been a lifelong dream for 35-year-old Ayman Jabril. He's passionate about caring for patients, clearly explaining medical treatments, and following up with them over time. He trained and worked as a physician in…
Published December 2, 2022
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Not everyone thinks Canada’s new immigration plan will grow the economy the way it should
Brian Hill Global News December 1, 2022
Nadine Rana’s family has been proudly cleaning clothes for more than 50 years.
Her parents immigrated to Canada from the West Indies in the late 1960s and opened a dry cleaner in Toronto’s east end. Rana now runs the business with the hope…
Published December 2, 2022
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Why are migrant farm workers calling for permanent residence status for all? A Niagara lawyer explains
Zahraa Hmood St. Catherine’s Standard Tue., Nov. 8, 2022
Mandip Grewal is a staff lawyer with the Niagara Community Legal Clinic, focused on handling the legal concerns of seasonal farm workers in the Niagara region, particularly Niagara-on-the-Lake. "I've seen workers speak…
Published November 9, 2022
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Ottawa Public Health confronts systemic racism, initiates action plan for reform
By Gail Pope Capital Current October 17, 2022
A report examining systemic racism within Ottawa Public Health has highlighted various challenges faced by racialized employees at the City of Ottawa agency that’s leading local efforts to fight COVID-19 and bring greater “health…
Published October 19, 2022
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Don’t speak English or French? In Hamilton, you might earn 57 per cent less than people who do
Ritika Dubey Spectator Reporter Thu., Oct. 13, 2022
If your English or French is weak, you might be earning 57 per cent less than Hamiltonians with better linguistic skills, according to the latest census data.
The fluency of official languages in Hamilton strongly reflected on…
Published October 13, 2022
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Cap on international students' working hours should be permanently lifted: advocates
Laura Osman | National Observer | October 12th 2022
A new pilot project to lift the cap on the number of hours international students can work should be made permanent, say advocates who have spent years asking for the change.
Immigration Minister Sean Fraser announced last…
Published October 13, 2022
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Students say lifting cap on working hours doesn't fix bigger issues for international students
CBC News · Posted: Oct 08, 2022
Post-secondary students in Calgary say a one-year pilot project that will lift the cap on off-campus hours international students are allowed to work is good news.
But it's a short-term fix that does not address bigger problems, they said.
On Nov…
Published October 11, 2022
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Recruiters and employers increasingly taking advantage of temporary foreign workers, advocate says
Joel Ballard, Francis Plourde · CBC News · Posted: Sep 23, 2022
Temporary foreign workers are reporting paying recruiters and employers thousands of dollars to obtain a permit to work in Canada — only to end up with nothing.
CBC Radio-Canada spoke with multiple experts who say…
Published September 29, 2022
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Ontario has promised to put immigrant nurses to work faster. That change is long overdue
Yamaan Alsumadi · CBC News · Posted: Sep 20, 2022
I'm a fourth-year nursing student studying at Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Ont., and I'm in a classroom filled with people who are perfectly qualified to help out with Ontario's health-care shortage.
Instead, they're…
Published September 20, 2022
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Ontario Passes the Working for Workers Act
Monte McNaughton, Minister of Labour, Training and Skills Development, issued the following statement in recognition of the passing of the Working for Workers Act, 2021:
“Our government is working for workers everyday to help them earn bigger paycheques, stay safe, and have…
Published December 1, 2021