Community groups in Nova Scotia can now apply for grants of up to $25,000 to help recruit and keep healthcare workers in… …
Nova Scotia
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Workplace Safety & OHSFeatured
WCB Nova Scotia cuts employer rates for first time in a generation, improves worker benefits
by Todd Humberby Todd HumberThe Workers’ Compensation Board of Nova Scotia is lowering the average employer rate by 15 per cent, the first cut the board… …
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Government Policy & BudgetsFeatured
Nova Scotia adds seafood careers to classrooms in bid to raise awareness
Nova Scotia is launching a new classroom program this fall to teach students in grades 7 to 12 about the seafood industry… …
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An arbitrator has imposed a first collective agreement on the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and the Canadian Union of… …
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Nova Scotia’s minister of seniors and long-term care is calling on the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) to put the government’s… …
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Collective Agreements
PREMIUM Maple Hill Manor and CUPE Local 2765 sign essential services agreement covering nursing home staff
The April 2026 agreement establishes baseline staffing levels and work functions to maintain essential health services at the 63-bed New Waterford facility… …
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The Nova Scotia Labour Board has ordered the creation of three province-wide bargaining units at the Nova Scotia Provincial Housing Agency after… …
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FeaturedGovernment Policy & Budgets
Federal and Nova Scotia governments spending $13.8 million to retrain workers hit by tariffs
The governments of Canada and Nova Scotia are putting $13.8 million toward retraining workers in industries disrupted by tariffs and shifting global… …
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Labour LawStaffing
PREMIUM Nova Scotia board boosts CCA staffing at long-term care home during strike
by Todd Humberby Todd HumberThe Nova Scotia Labour Board has ordered an essential services agreement amended to increase continuing care assistant staffing at a long-term care… …
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Labour RelationsFeaturedGovernment Policy & Budgets
Nova Scotia minister urges CUPE to let long-term care workers vote on offer
Nova Scotia’s minister of seniors and long-term care is calling on the Canadian Union of Public Employees to put the government’s contract… …

