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Assuming a 40-hour workweek and 52 paid weeks per year, the annual gross employment income of an individual earning the minimum wage in Canada is between C$29,120 (in Saskatchewan) and C$39,520 (in Nunavut). [4] [5] The following table lists the hourly minimum wages for adult workers in each province and territory of Canada.
The federal, provincial, and territorial governments all regulate labour and employment law in Canada, with the federal government regulating a few particular economic sectors and the provinces and territories regulating all others. The constitution [1] gives exclusive federal jurisdiction over employment as a component of its regulatory ...
The Canada Labour Code ( French: Code canadien du travail) is an Act of the Parliament of Canada to consolidate certain statutes respecting labour. The objective of the Code is to facilitate production by controlling strikes & lockouts, occupational safety and health, and some employment standards. Generally speaking, the Code only applies to ...
The Saskatchewan New Democratic Party (NDP) is a social democratic political party in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. The party was founded in 1932 as the Farmer-Labour Group and was known as the Saskatchewan section of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) from 1935 until 1967. The NDP currently forms the Official Opposition ...
Employment standards are social norms (in some cases also technical standards) for the minimum socially acceptable conditions under which employees or contractors are allowed to work. Government agencies (such as the former US Employment Standards Administration) enforce labour law (legislature, regulatory, or judicial).
In 2018, Saskatchewan announced that it would discontinue its own provincial job search engine, SaskJobs, on May 1, 2018 in favor of the Job Bank, to provide "enhanced" services for its users. This came after the Brad Wall government made cuts to employment and work readiness programs in the 2017-18 provincial budget. [3]
The Saskatchewan Federation of Labour and a group of other unions claimed that two new provincial statutes violated the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms by suppressing the freedom to take collective action and collective bargaining. The government of Saskatchewan introduced Public Service Essential Services Act 2008 which would have ...
Website. sfl .sk .ca. The Saskatchewan Federation of Labour (SFL) is the Saskatchewan provincial trade union federation of the Canadian Labour Congress. Founded in 1956, it has a membership of 98,000. The primary function of the SFL is to lobby branches of Canadian government [1] on behalf of the unions the SFL represents.