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Queen's University

Community, people and business: Terrapex’s three-pronged pandemic strategy

CEO gives politicians a passing grade, but knows business is changing – and is a fan of transparent and plentiful employee communication


Fear, hope and change: Gilbertson Enterprises adjusts to construction in a pandemic

Aggregates company is still doing brisk business – even hiring – but the way it operates has changed, says Bob McKinnon


Longer shifts, PPE and plenty of Lysol: How COVID-19 changed Pennine Security

COO proud of how team is coping, says pandemic has put a spotlight on the importance of employee benefits


CERB criteria expanded to include seasonal workers, part-time earners

Pay for some long-term care workers to be topped up, those making up to $1,000 per month now eligible: Trudeau


For meat plant workers, virus makes a hard job perilous

Meat workers particularly susceptible because they work in close quarters


Alberta hikes pay, hiring to fight COVID-19 in continuing care centres

Wage supplement of $2 an hour offered, province fast-tracking health-care aide students to get them on the job immediately
 
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Mina Movaselli

COVID-19 is changing your habits – and it might make you question your job

Employees working from home, or who have had their careers upended, have a light of time to think with few distractions, writes Mina Movaselli in her latest column » Read More
 
GOOD NEWS 
 

Clothing maker Samuelsohn reopens factory to make medical PPE

Montreal-based luxury menswear company retools, brings back 150 workers and has an order to make 200,000 surgical gowns as the Made in Canada movement grows » Read More

CAE building ventilators, recalling all temporarily laid-off staff in Canada

Company signs contract with Ottawa to manufacture, supply 10,000 ventilators » Read More
 
Bonus Articles 
 

Coronavirus bailouts won’t save startup workers from layoffs

Unlike larger, resource-rich companies, startups are unable to make pledges to avoid job cuts » Read More

The risks to essential workers with hidden health conditions

Some of the most common conditions have no visible signs and may go unnoticed by employers » Read More