Recent amendments to Part III of the Canada Labour Code provide labour standard protections to paid interns under federal jurisdiction. The amendments also specify the limited circumstances when an intern can be unpaid and allow for some labour standard protections to apply to unpaid interns through regulations. Sheil Communications facilitated the Labour Program’s initial and subsequent regulatory consultations […]
The Wage Earner Protection Program Act protect workers in Canada who lose their job and are owed earned wages when their employer goes bankrupt or becomes subject to a receivership. It does this by advancing to workers payment for eligible wages before insolvency proceedings are completed. This legislation required the completion of a one-time, five-year review of […]
Part III of the Canada Labour Code establishes and protects the rights of workers in federally regulated enterprises to fair and equitable conditions of employment. A number of amendments came into effect on April 1, 2014 to make compliance easier for employers and to reduce the department’s cost to administer the legislation. This included a […]
The Canadian Agricultural Human Resource Council was created in September 2006 to address the human resource issues facing primary agriculture businesses across Canada. Sheil Communications developed and implemented a comprehensive communications strategy to raise awareness of the organization over its first few years. This included developing the council’s logo and thematic direction, an initial web […]