Canada’s broken promises to migrant care workers
Despite the government’s promise to offer permanent residency to migrant care workers applying to the new pilot programs, there currently remains a large numb... Read more.
Why BC needs sectoral bargaining now
Sectoral bargaining represents a different approach to labour law than the worksite-based certification model prevalent in BC. Instead of channeling all organiz... Read more.
Budget fails to fund enough supports for newcomers to BC
New immigrants, temporary foreign workers and international students are bearing the brunt of the blame for the housing crisis and strain on public services. Th... Read more.
Online Event: Moving Forward: Beyond the Home Child Care Provider and Home Support Worker IRCC Pilot Programs
Join the Migrant Care Workers Project researchers who will share findings from interviews with migrant care workers and FOIPPA requests on IRCC's Home Child Car... Read more.
New labour legislation to continue gig worker precarity
The BC government has announced Bill 48 to provide better working conditions and rights for app-based ride-hail and food-delivery gig workers. Even with existin... Read more.
Raising the bar: Our recommendations for equitable gig work in BC
Hundreds of thousands of Canadian workers now participate to varying degrees in app-based work. Ride hail and food delivery workers are only the most visible ex... Read more.
Fires and farmworkers: Climate justice means improving protections for migrant farmworkers
The impacts of the climate crisis are socially and geographically uneven: the wealthiest regions contribute disproportionately to the destruction of the planet ... Read more.
Open letter on regulating platform work from BC experts in labour law, policy and economics
Digital platforms can offer valuable services to consumers and decent work for those providing those services. But the current practices of these firms, shirkin... Read more.
Will 2023 be the year BC farmworkers finally receive basic minimum wage protections?
BC’s cost of living—measured by the BC Consumer Price Index—has increased by 11.5 per cent since 2019. And a 2019 Ministry of Labour report shows that som... Read more.
A win for BC workers: single-step union certification
The BC government recently introduced legislation that allows a majority of workers in a workplace to organize a union a little more easily, making it harder fo... Read more.
Employment rights justice denied to thousands of BC Workers
For decades, the BC Employment Standards Branch has not effectively enforced the Employment Standards Act, meaning thousands of workers are denied their legal r... Read more.
COVID-19 pandemic highlights the need for a living wage
With the spread of the Omicron variant of COVID-19, news stories sounding the alarm over worker shortages are once again on the rise. And, like previous waves, ... Read more.
Legislated Paid Sick Leave – A Historic Moment for Worker Rights
The BC government will implement the right for all employees to have a minimum number of employer-paid sick days on January 1, 2022. BC will become just the thi... Read more.
