Workers Wanted: Quebec welcomes temporary foreign autobody workers
Montreal, Quebec — Autobody workers in Quebec can now be hired without employers searching for Canadians first. Quebec’s Labour Market Impact Assessment (LMIA) is a list of high-demand jobs which allows employers to hire temporary foreign workers directly, without proving that they tried and failed to find qualified Canadians first. Updates to the LMIA by […]
Scrap operation fined $105,000 for its role in worker death
Peterborough, Ontario — February 1, 2017 — Peterborough Iron & Metal has pled guilty and been fined $105,000 after a worker was killed by an excavator operating in reverse. The incident took place in 2015. The incident took place when a worker was in the yard, adjacent to a narrow roadway, cutting apart the bucket […]
College of Trades oversight transferred to Ministry of Labour
By Mike Davey Toronto, Ontario — May 12, 2016 — A decision by the government of Ontario will see oversight of the Ontario College of Trades (OCOT) transferred to the Ministry of Labour (MOL) from the Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities (MTCU). According to an official statement from OCOT, this change will […]
