Improving Standards for Garment Workers 2000.06 IMPROVING STANDARDS FOR GARMENT WORKERS Whereas: Canada is a signatory to the United Nations Universal Declaration on Human Rights and the International Labour Organizations (ILO) Conventions;... Employment/Insurance
Migrant Workers and Employment Insurance 2007:03 MIGRANT FARM WORKERS AND EMPLOYMENT INSURANCE Whereas 1 Canada is a signatory to the United Nations International Bill of Human Rights which states in Article 7 “All are equal before the law a... Employment/Insurance
Minimum Wage and Unemployment 88.4 Minimum Wage and Unemployment Whereas The national unemployment figure as of August 1987 was quoted as being at 8.9 percent; and, Whereas Welfare recipients may be reluctant to accept casual or l... Employment/Insurance
Need for Reform of the Employment Insurance Program 2008:06 NEED FOR REFORM OF THE EMPLOYMENT INSURANCE PROGRAM Whereas 1 restrictive changes to Employment Insurance (EI) Program entitlements in the mid-1990s resulted in a decrease in the percentage of... Employment/Insurance
Non-disclosure Agreements / Non-disparagement Agreements 2022-04 NON-DISCLOSURE AGREEMENTS/NON-DISPARAGEMENT AGREEMENTS (NDAs) Whereas #1 : Employers often force workers to sign non-disclosure and non-disparagement agreements as part of severance packages t... Employment/Insurance
Older Women and Discriminatory Employment Policies and Practices 2012:05 OLDER WOMEN AND DISCRIMINATORY EMPLOYMENT POLICIES AND PRACTICES Whereas 1: older women have “the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favourable conditions of work and to ... Employment/Insurance
Protecting Public Employees who Report Wrongdoing 93.9 Protecting Public Employees who Report Wrongdoing [Whereas,] Rationale: Canada has not enacted laws to protect whistle blowers. As a result, employees and public servants with the Canadian govern... Employment/Insurance
Seasonal Agricultural Workers 7. SEASONAL AGRICULTURAL WORKERS Submitted by the Niagara District Council of Women Whereas #1 Seasonal Agricultural Workers (SAWs) do some of the most dangerous and difficult jobs in Canada, with som... Employment/Insurance
Temporary Foreign Workers’ Access to Permanent Status (Caregiver Program) 8. TEMPORARY FOREIGN WORKERS’ ACCESS TO PERMANENT STATUS (CAREGIVER PROGRAM) Whereas #1 The entry of foreign caregiver workers, the majority of whom are women, is prompted by the unmet labour market d... Employment/Insurance
Women and Precarious Employment/Non-Standard Work 2018.01 WOMEN AND PRECARIOUS EMPLOYMENT/ NON-STANDARD WORK Whereas #1: An increasing number of workers are in precarious employment, poorly paid, insecure, unprotected and unable to support a househol... Employment/Insurance
Youth Employment 2012:04 YOUTH EMPLOYMENT Whereas 1 youth unemployment in Canada, following the 2008 economic crisis, is considerably higher than adult unemployment; and Whereas 2 long term unemployment in young peopl... Employment/Insurance
Electoral Reform/Proportional Representation 2002:02 ELECTORAL REFORM / PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION Whereas: A functioning democracy requires accurate representation of opinion, which means that the number of seats that a political party obtains... Elections