New study says areas with the highest turnover were the petroleum and gas industries, as well as security guards, heavy equipment operators and truck drivers.Fort McMurray’s downtown core. Some businesses say they’re struggling to find employees. (Dave Bajer/CBC)As the co-founder and owner of a Fort McMurray wellness spa, Alethea Austin is in the business of…
The Alberta government is delaying plans to vaccinate workers at Cargill’s meatpacking plant in High River — a move doctors say is likely to erode the already shaky trust with a workforce devastated by the pandemic.Cargill’s meat-processing facility in High River, Alta., shown on Jan. 8, 2021. The province is holding off on a vaccination…
Employees at the Canada Royal Milk plant in Kingston, Ont., say management treated them like “minions” — denying them safety gear that fit, harassing employees by accusing them of being “overpaid” and less hardworking than workers in China and — in one case — unnecessarily touching a worker during a heated dispute.Current and former employees…
Almost a year into the coronavirus pandemic, some frontline health care workers are still experiencing shortages of personal protective equipment, known as…
A team of health workers gave Covid vaccines to a group of people stuck in a snowy traffic jam to avoid wasting them. The group of 20, who work for Josephine County Public Health in Grants Pass, Oregon, got out of their vehicles and approached nearby cars to see if anyone wanted the shots after…
Two Canada Post workers in Regina were temporarily suspended earlier this month after they refused to deliver the latest sample edition of the Epoch Times, a paper founded by Chinese-American followers of Falun Gong and known for its critical coverage of the China’s communist regime.Regina mail carrier Ramiro Sepulveda was recently suspended for three days…
A couple who helped police comb through evidence while surrounded by bodies in the wake of the 7/7 bombings, were forced to relive the trauma when they were impacted by a second terror attack 14 years later. After witnessing first-hand the devastation of the UK’s first suicide bomb attack, former London Underground engineer workers Samantha…
Families of three rail workers killed in a crash in the Rockies of eastern B.C. almost two years ago are calling on the prime minister to intervene after a former Canadian Pacific Railway police officer alleged his superiors obstructed his investigation.Pam Fraser, mother of Canadian Pacific Railway conductor Dylan Paradis, has lodged formal complaints with…
For many of them, it was the defining professional experience of their lives. But Canada’s legacy in Afghanistan is also something deeply personal for the more than 140 former diplomats, aid workers and police officers who have signed an open letter urging the international community — Canada included — not to abandon Afghanistan as its tentative peace process drags…
Three Metro Vancouver employees have been fired in connection with a deadly water surge that occurred when a spillway gate at the Cleveland Dam in North Vancouver opened unexpectedly during maintenance in early October.The Cleveland Dam was down to a trickle on Oct. 5 after a sudden surge of water killed two people downstream. (Yvette Brend/CBC…