Janitorial workers employed by Dexterra Group to clean Vancouver’s SkyTrain system took to the streets in Metro Vancouver on Tuesday, alleging the… …
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FeaturedLabour Relations
B.C. community health workers ratify new four-year contract with 3% annual wage increases
More than 25,000 community health workers in British Columbia have ratified a new four-year collective agreement that includes annual wage increases and… …
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FeaturedGovernment Policy & BudgetsImmigration
More than 400 U.S. health-care professionals now working in B.C.
The British Columbia government says more than 400 American-trained health-care professionals have accepted job offers across the province since it launched a… …
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Labour Law
PREMIUM Arbitrator finds Hospital Employees Union grievance application timely despite employer’s jurisdictional challenge
A B.C. arbitrator has ruled that a job selection grievance filed by the Professional Employees’ Association was referred to expedited arbitration within… …
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Labour Law
PREMIUM Iron Mountain Welding ordered to pay worker $42,304 in lost wages after out-of-seniority layoff
A British Columbia arbitrator has ordered a Maple Ridge metal fabrication company to pay a laid-off welder more than $42,000 in lost… …
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Diversity, Equity & InclusionFeaturedLabour Relations
B.C. teachers win gender-affirming care, except in two cities
By Isaac Phan Nay | The Tyee The union for more than 52,000 B.C. public school teachers ratified a new collective agreement this… …
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Artificial Intelligence (AI)FeaturedTechnology in HR
This dockworker in Vancouver uses AI to hold bosses accountable
By Isaac Phan Nay | The Tyee Nearly every week for more than eight years, longshoreman Veetesh Rup has looked over the mess… …
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FeaturedLabour Relations
B.C. health science workers ratify new collective agreement covering 25,000 staff
More than 25,000 health science professionals in British Columbia have ratified a new collective agreement that includes measures to address staffing shortages,… …
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Diversity, Equity & InclusionFeatured
MLA wants to scrap B.C.’s Human Rights Code. Some constituents want her gone instead
By Wolfgang Depner A B.C. legislator who has sought to scrap the province’s Human Rights Code and ban land acknowledgments, and has blamed… …
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Labour Law
PREMIUM Mission Hill Vineyards worker denied severance after winter freeze triggers winery layoffs
A British Columbia arbitrator has dismissed a grievance seeking severance pay for a winery worker laid off following a catastrophic winter freeze,… …

