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The Saskatchewan Federation of Labour (SFL) is the Saskatchewan provincial trade union federation of the Canadian Labour Congress. Founded in 1956, it has a membership of 98,000. The primary function of the SFL is to lobby branches of Canadian government [1] on behalf of the unions the SFL represents.
As Minister of Labour, Forbes was responsible for implementing Saskatchewan's newest holiday - Family Day [11] and the Improving Work Opportunities Report [12] [13] which included raising the provincial minimum wage to LICO standards. Many workplace safety improvements such as the anti-harassment unit and introducing labour standards in the ...
The Canada Labour Code (French: Code canadien du travail) is an Act of the Parliament of Canada to consolidate certain statutes respecting labour.The objective of the Code is to facilitate production by controlling strikes & lockouts, occupational safety and health, and some employment standards.
Assuming a 40-hour workweek and 52 paid weeks per year, the annual gross employment income of an individual earning the minimum wage in Canada is between C$31,200 (in Alberta and Saskatchewan) and C$39,520 (in Nunavut). [4] The following table lists the hourly minimum wages for adult workers in each province and territory of Canada.
The right of workers to strike and picket against their employer is constitutionally protected in Canada, according to the Supreme Court of Canada's 2015 ruling in Saskatchewan Federation of Labour v Saskatchewan. The right to strike is an essential part of a meaningful collective bargaining process in our system of labour relations...
The list of International Labour Organization Conventions contains 191 codifications of worldwide labour standards. International Labour Organization (ILO) Conventions are developed through tripartite negotiations between member state representatives from trade unions , employers' organisations and governments, and adopted by the annual ...
The bill for the Labour Standards Amendment Act, 2006, was introduced in the legislature on November 1, 2006, and received Royal Assent on December 6. [11] The Act officially declares Family Day on the third Monday of each February; [12] the first Family Day in Saskatchewan was February 19, 2007. [7]
The Manitoba Labour Board is an independent and autonomous specialist tribunal responsible for the "fair and efficient administration and adjudication of issues brought before it by labour and management concerning rights and responsibilities of the parties under the provisions of The Labour Relations Act, The Employments Standards Code, The ...