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CEOs earn your annual salary by lunch time on day 4 of the new year
The CCPA released an important new report today looking into CEO compensation in Canada, relative to the rest of us, and the findings are appauling: According to the CCPA: January 4, 2016 TORONTO – On the first working day of the New Year, Canada’s highest paid 100 CEOs are seriously power lunching: by 12:18 pm
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CFIB Way Off Base On Pensions
Response to Elliot Sims editorial in the Winnipeg Free Press entitled Manitobans don’t want the CPP tax hike (published Dec 21/15) Elliot Sims couldn’t be more wrong when he argues “Manitobans don’t want the CPP tax hike” (Dec 21, 2015). CPP contributions are not a tax. They are savings put aside in return for a
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Harper’s Attacks on Workers Unravelling
Stephen Harper’s war on working people and their unions is the target of a Trudeau government follow-up on an election promise. C-377 is about to be swept into the trashcan of history. CLC President Hassan Yussuff explains in a letter to affiliated unions.
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All workers eligible for presumptive PTSD coverage January 1
The MFL commends the provincial government on today’s announcement that presumptive PTSD coverage will take effect for all workers starting on new year’s day: PROVINCE ANNOUNCES FIRST-IN-CANADA POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER LEGISLATION COMING INTO EFFECT JAN. 1– – –Coverage Accessible to All Workers under Groundbreaking Changes to Workers Compensation Act: Premier Selinger Changes to the Workers
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Finance Ministers moving to consult on changes to the CPP
After many years, Finance Ministers have finally announced that they will begin discussion and consultation in 2016 on options for the CPP going forward. “Expanding the CPP is something Canadians support and it’s already long overdue,” said Canadian Labour Congress President Hassan Yussuff. Read more about the CLC’s campaign for universal CPP expansion and further action