Labour & Employment in Alberta

Alberta released some injury-related reports in April. Here are the highlights from the 2021 Workplace Injury, Illness and Fatality Statisti...

Back in 2015, Alberta passed laws giving farm workers basic employment rights, including making their employer subject to the ambit of the O...

Recently, a new novella arrived on my desk. It tells the story of a strike by young female mill workers (“ mill girls ”) set in Lowell, Mass...

A few years back, some colleagues and I surveyed 2000 Alberta workers about injury and safety. One of our findings was that only about half...

Alberta’s minimum wage for youth under 18 will be reduced tomorrow as part of a broad series of labour-law rollbacks enacted by the new U...

This post originally appeared on the Parkland Institute blog on May 28, 2019. The second bill introduced by Alberta’s new United Conservat...

Photo: Christian Fischer In early December, Alberta rolled out new rules regulating the employment of children . As January 1, 2019, th...

From October 10 to 20, Edmonton’s Walterdale Theatre is presenting “ The Triangle Factory Fire Project .” This play recreates the events an...

Two weeks back, Alberta announced that it would be sending letters to employers alleged to have stolen workers’ wages . These letters wil...

The government of Alberta is updating its rules around the employment of minors. After changing the minimum age of employment from 12 to 13,...

This week’s installment of Labour & Pop Culture examines the new movie Solo: A Star Wars Story. The film reveals the origins of the Ha...

This week’s installment of Labour & Pop Culture is “James Larkin” by Christy Moore. The song chronicles a period of revolution in Iris...