Category Archives: Employment

Stop blaming the Baby Boomers

The hand-wringing over aging populations is too-little but not too late

We built this economy (photo credit - Jesselangham Wikiality)

Every day we are being told the problems of Canada and the United States are too many aging Baby Boomers.

It’s as if they want us to move onto an ice flow and disappear in the Arctic spring.

Well, it’s not our fault if we built the strongest economic boom in history. Through hard work we provided the great standard of living our children would like to inherit without the same amount of effort. Continue reading →

The 5 employment laws every manager should know

Federal class actions under Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) are biggest source of private class actions in employment-related cases

By Elizabeth Hall, Business Management Daily – Wage-and-hour labor litigation continues to increase exponentially.

Federal class actions brought under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) outnumber all other types of private class actions in employment-related cases. Particularly hard hit: employers in California, Florida, Illinois, New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and Texas. Continue reading →

The iPhone Revolution is manned by slave labor

Has Apple Computer become a corporation that lives off the blood, sweat and tears of Chinese slave labor similar to George Orwell’s novel 1984?

In the 1984 Superbowl commercial Apple Computer likened itself to the savior of a mankind enslaved to big government and big corporations. The Apple Macintosh would smash the dystopian, conformist world.

In the New York Times story How the U.S. Lost Out on iPhone Work, the author’s describe slave labor camps that build Apple iPhone’s where people work 6 days a week, 12 hours a day for $17 a day. Apple saves $15 per iPhone by using Chinese labor. Continue reading →

Occupy Wall Street is not about homeless lazy bums

Many thoughtful people can see the corruption of the economic system

Former Philadelphia Police Captain Ray Lewis arrested at OWS

City governments and police that are arresting Occupy Wall Street (OWS) protesters are making a big mistake.

Authorities who refuse to work on the problem are breaching democratic rights to free speech and free assembly. Continue reading →

Occupy Canada movement unscathed by phoney MACLEAN’S attack

MACLEAN’S Andrew Coyne tried to tear a strip off the Occupy Wall Street movement in Canada

Andrew Coyne, Macleans (photo National Roundtable on the Environment and the Economy)

By Nick Fillmore

The right-wing Canadian media establishment unleashed one of its loudest barking dogs.

Coyne’s cover story acknowledged that anyone living in the United States would have “good reason to be ticked” because of the wide range of serious problems in that country, but then, talking about Canada, he cited dozens of often odd statistics to attempt to show that, except for the poorest-of-the poor, things are hunky-dory here. Continue reading →

Tax system benefits 1% Wealthy

For those with jobs, life is a drudgery – for those with capital, life is a comedy

The 99% protest at Occupy Toronto (photo CBC)

The Canadian and US tax systems reinforce the concentration of wealth in the hands of the 1%.

It will take a major shift in how the government structures the tax system to see any transfer in wealth from the 1% to the 99%. Continue reading →

Basic Income proposal could eliminate poverty for people with disabilities

Changes to benefit system modeled on systems for seniors and Canada Child Benefit Benefit would replace welfare for working age people with severe disabilities

The Caledon Institute has presented a proposal, Caledon Basic Income Plan, to overhaul Canada’s patchwork and failing system of social supports for working age Canadians who are severely disabled and living in poverty.

The new system would prevent the abject poverty that afflicts Canadians with disabilities where a single adult in New Brunswick is subsisting on roughly $8,000 a year, which is less than half of the LICO (Low Income Cut-Off).

This poverty exists despite the billions being spent at the Federal and Provincial levels.

The proposal is comprehensive but not a system that purposes major increases in social spending.

Instead it proposes to use the existing systems, like the Income Tax Act and Canada Pension Disability Benefit, to streamline and reorganize benefits making them more effective in eliminating poverty for working age Canadians with severe disabilities. Continue reading →

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