Labour & Employment in Alberta

One of many tasks of OHS practitioners is to plan organizational responses to disasters. The most common kind of workplace disaster we devel...

A friend and I were chatting the other day about the ongoing occupational health and safety (OHS) problems at the Cargill meat-processing pl...

There has been much written about the Kenney government’s attack on organized labour in its 2019 budget (which include layoffs and wage free...

On June 1, 2018, changes to Alberta’s Occupational Health and Safety Act took effect. A key change was the requirement for employers with ...

This post original appears on the Parkland Institute blog on April 3, 2019. (NOTE: On April 5, 2019, after this blog was originally publi...

If you're looking for a last-minute Christmas present, I’ve just released a new book entitled Canada’s Labour Market Training System ....

Alberta's new OHS legislation has (finally) made joint health and safety committees (JHSCs) mandatory for employers with more than 20 e...

In late June, the federal government announced it had signed new labour market training agreements with Alberta worth $1.7 billion over the...

This week’s installment of Labour & Pop Culture is “Welcome to the Boomtown” by David & David. The song recounts the mid-80s exces...

Last week, the Parkland Institute and the Alberta Workers’ Health Centre jointly published as report entitled Safer by design: How Alberta...

This week’s installment of Labour & Pop Culture looks at the recent Superstore episode entitled “Safety Training”. This episode centre...

This week’s installment of Labour & Pop Culture features “Oh, the boss is coming!” by the Arkells. The song talks about how the profit...

To start the new year of Labour & Pop Culture, we return to NBC’s comedy Superstore. Last year they had an interesting storyline about ...

In late October, Alberta released for public comment the reports of four working groups that examined the application of occupational heal...