Tuesday, October 26, 2004
[IWS] CANADA: Weekly Work Report, 25 October 2004
IWS Documented News Service
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Institute for Workplace Studies Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 Director, IWS News Bureau
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(The following is courtesy of the Centre for Industrial Relations, University of Toronto).
Weekly Work Report for the Week of October 25, 2004
These highlights of the week's HR/IR news are prepared by the Librarians at the Centre for Industrial Relations for our subscribers, alumni, faculty and students, and are intended for their individual use only. Please visit the CIR website for terms of use and information about organizational subscriptions. This message is composed in MS Outlook Express and contains hyperlinks that require an HTML-enabled email program.
The WWR is protected by Canadian copyright law and should not be reproduced or forwarded without permission. For inquiries or comments, please contact the Editor, elizabeth.perry@utoronto.ca.
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SNAPSHOT OF THE CANADIAN WORKPLACE IN 2001: The Workplace and Employee Survey Compendium 2001 released by Statistics Canada on October 25 provides a comprehensive, factual overview of Canadian workplaces and outcomes for workers. The wealth of information presented includes: incidence of organizational change; adoption of computer-based technology; average hours spent using computers on the job; percentage of employees receiving on-the-job and classroom training; work schedules, including compressed work weeks and flexible work weeks; extent and scheduling of work at home; wage, benefit and pension coverage; and comparison of median hourly earnings for union and non-union workers. For many topics, comparative data is available from the 1999 WES survey.
LINKS:
Workplace and Employee Survey Compendium 2001 (47 pages, PDF) (Catalogue no. 71-585-XIE) at the Statistics Canada website at <http://www.statcan.ca:8096/bsolc/english/bsolc?catno=71-585-X>
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HUMAN RESOURCE PLANNING FOR HEALTH PROFESSIONS PROCEEDS ON A PROVINCE-BY-PROVINCE LEVEL: A report released by the Canadian Policy Research Network (CPRN) on October 22 provides a chronology and catalogue of the human resource planning initiatives relating to physicians, nurses and pharmacists in Canadian provinces. For each profession, the report focuses and summarizes the many policy-related task forces and reports relating to education and training initiatives; recruitment and retention; and the capacity for human resource planning at a national level. An impressive number of studies and organizations are listed and summarized, but it appears that the provinces are operating independently and without a coordinating strategy.
LINKS:
Health Human Resources Policy Initiatives for Physicians, Nurses and Pharmacists, (54 pages, PDF) by Cathy Fooks and Lisa Maslove at the CPRN website at <http://www.cprn.org/en/doc.cfm?doc=1112>
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OECD CRITICAL OF LEARNING DIMENSION IN CANADIAN CHILD CARE : On October 25th the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development released a report on CanadaÂs child-care system. The report was highly critical of CanadaÂs system, describing it as inefficient, fragmented and ignoring early learning. Four provinces  British Columbia, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Prince Edward Island  as well as the federal government participated in the study. The report notes that in 2001 62.3% of mothers whose youngest child was under 3 years of age were in the labour force and 73.4% of mothers whose youngest child was between 3 and 5 were in the labour force.
LINKS:
Early Childhood Education and Care Policy: Canada Country Note (97-pages, PDF) at <http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/42/34/33850725.pdf>
OECD Thematic Review of Early Childhood Education and Care Canadian Background Report (137 pages, PDF) at <http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/41/36/33852192.pdf>
Issue File on the OECD Report by the Child Care Resource and Research Unit (CCRU) of the University of Toronto (including links to other documents, news coverage and responses) at <http://www.childcarecanada.org/res/issues/oecdthematicreviewcanadareports.html>
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COMPUTER USE ON THE JOB IMPROVES WAGES FOR DISABLED WORKERS: The Disability Research Information Page (DRIP) hosted by the Canadian Council on Social Development (CCSD) has been updated with a new fact sheet: Workers with Disabilities and the impact of workplace structures. Using data from Statistics Canada 2001 Workplace and Employee Survey (WES) and the 2001 Adult Participation and Activity Limitation Survey (PALS), the fact sheet presents charts and narrative about labour force outcomes such as wage rates, job satisfaction, training and promotions for workers with and without disabilities. Among the findings: 34.7% of workers without disabilities were very satisfied with their jobs, compared to 25.6% of workers with disabilities; 35% of workers with disabilities who used computers on the job were in the highest wage quartile.
LINKS:
Disability Fact Sheet #16: Workers with Disabilities and the impact of workplace structures (8 pages, PDF) at <http://www.ccsd.ca/drip/research/drip16/drip16.pdf>
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12% OF RETIREES WOULD HAVE KEPT WORKING IF RETIREMENT NOT MANDATORY: An article released in the Statistics CanadaÂs online Perspectives on Labour and Income reports that more than 25% of people who retired between 1992 and 2002 would have continued working if they had they been able to reduce their work schedule without diminishing their pension benefits. About 27% of respondents to the survey would have continued if their health had been better. Immigrants, university-educated individuals and those who received an early retirement incentive were the most likely to consider working past age 65 if alternative work arrangements were available. The study is based on data from the 2002 General Social Survey.
LINKS:
The Daily summary of the article is at <http://www.statcan.ca/Daily/English/041026/d041026d.htm>
ÂRetaining older workers" appears in Online Perspectives on Labour and Income (Oct. 2004). The entire issue can be downloaded online from <http://www.statcan.ca/cgi-bin/downpub/pickup.cgi?issue=1100475-001-XIE.pdf>
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VOLUNTARY COMPLIANCE EXPECTED FOR NEW PENSION PLAN GOVERNANCE GUIDELINES: The final version of Pension Plan Governance Guidelines and Self-Assessment Questionnaire was released on October 25 by the Canadian Association of Pension Supervisory Authorities (CAPSA). CAPSA had initiated consultations with industry stakeholders in May 2001 and established an industry task force in 2002 to develop principles and guidelines for CanadaÂs pension plan administrators. Some changes have been made to the draft version which was released in July 2003. CAPSA recommends that defined contribution pension plans in which members make investment decisions follow CAPSA Guideline #3: Guidelines for Capital Accumulation Plans, (released in May 2004) in addition to the new Governance Guidelines.
LINKS:
Pension Plan Governance Guidelines and Self-Assessment Questionnaire and Guideline #3 are available in PDF files from the CAPSA website at <http://www.capsa-acor.org/>
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IMPROVEMENTS TO 2 ONTARIO GOVERNMENT WEBSITES: The Ontario Labour Relations Board launched an updated website in October, providing a much clearer interface and more online information. Recent Decisions of Interest are highlighted and full-text of those decisions is available. OLRB Decisions since Jan. 2000 are available at the Canadian Legal Information Institute website at <http://www.canlii.org/on/cas/onlrb/>
The Ontario Human Rights Tribunal website has also been recently improved, most notably to provide free online access to the decisions of the Tribunal. At the moment, the site provides a searchable database of decisions back to 2000, but plans are to include the full text of the decisions back to 1962.
LINKS:
Ontario Labour Relations Board website at <http://www.olrb.gov.on.ca/english/homepage.htm>, includes recent Decisions of Interest available at <http://www.olrb.gov.on.ca/english/decint.htm> .
Ontario Human Rights Tribunal at <http://www.hrto.ca/>http://www.hrto.ca/
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HEALTHY WORKPLACE WEEK IS OCTOBER 25 TO 31: The 4th annual Healthy Workplace Week in Canada is overseen by the Canadian Healthy Workplace Council and administered by the National Quality Institute (NQI), the Canadian Centre for Occupational Health & Safety (CCOHS) and the Health Work & Wellness Conference (HWWC). The healthy workplace website contains activities for the week, long-term strategies for a healthy workplace and case studies of company programs.
LINKS:
Healthy Workplace website at <http://www.healthyworkplaceweek.ca/>
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Centre for Industrial Relations 121 St. George St. Toronto Canada M5S 2E8 <http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/cir>
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This information is provided to subscribers, friends, faculty, students and alumni of the School of Industrial & Labor Relations (ILR). It is a service of the Institute for Workplace Studies (IWS) in New York City. Stuart Basefsky is responsible for the selection of the contents which is intended to keep researchers, companies, workers, and governments aware of the latest information related to ILR disciplines as it becomes available for the purposes of research, understanding and debate. The content does not reflect the opinions or positions of Cornell University, the School of Industrial & Labor Relations, or that of Mr. Basefsky and should not be construed as such. The service is unique in that it provides the original source documentation, via links, behind the news and research of the day. Use of the information provided is unrestricted. However, it is requested that users acknowledge that the information was found via the IWS Documented News Service.
Stuart Basefsky *
Director, IWS News Bureau *
Institute for Workplace Studies *
Cornell/ILR School *
16 E. 34th Street, 4th Floor *
New York, NY 10016 *
*
Telephone: (607) 255-2703 *
Fax: (607) 255-9641 *
E-mail: smb6@cornell.edu *
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_______________________________
Institute for Workplace Studies
School of Industrial & Labor Relations
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor
New York, NY 10016
________________________________________________________________________
(The following is courtesy of the Centre for Industrial Relations, University of Toronto).
Weekly Work Report for the Week of October 25, 2004
These highlights of the week's HR/IR news are prepared by the Librarians at the Centre for Industrial Relations for our subscribers, alumni, faculty and students, and are intended for their individual use only. Please visit the CIR website for terms of use and information about organizational subscriptions. This message is composed in MS Outlook Express and contains hyperlinks that require an HTML-enabled email program.
The WWR is protected by Canadian copyright law and should not be reproduced or forwarded without permission. For inquiries or comments, please contact the Editor, elizabeth.perry@utoronto.ca.
----------
SNAPSHOT OF THE CANADIAN WORKPLACE IN 2001: The Workplace and Employee Survey Compendium 2001 released by Statistics Canada on October 25 provides a comprehensive, factual overview of Canadian workplaces and outcomes for workers. The wealth of information presented includes: incidence of organizational change; adoption of computer-based technology; average hours spent using computers on the job; percentage of employees receiving on-the-job and classroom training; work schedules, including compressed work weeks and flexible work weeks; extent and scheduling of work at home; wage, benefit and pension coverage; and comparison of median hourly earnings for union and non-union workers. For many topics, comparative data is available from the 1999 WES survey.
LINKS:
Workplace and Employee Survey Compendium 2001 (47 pages, PDF) (Catalogue no. 71-585-XIE) at the Statistics Canada website at <http://www.statcan.ca:8096/bsolc/english/bsolc?catno=71-585-X>
----------
HUMAN RESOURCE PLANNING FOR HEALTH PROFESSIONS PROCEEDS ON A PROVINCE-BY-PROVINCE LEVEL: A report released by the Canadian Policy Research Network (CPRN) on October 22 provides a chronology and catalogue of the human resource planning initiatives relating to physicians, nurses and pharmacists in Canadian provinces. For each profession, the report focuses and summarizes the many policy-related task forces and reports relating to education and training initiatives; recruitment and retention; and the capacity for human resource planning at a national level. An impressive number of studies and organizations are listed and summarized, but it appears that the provinces are operating independently and without a coordinating strategy.
LINKS:
Health Human Resources Policy Initiatives for Physicians, Nurses and Pharmacists, (54 pages, PDF) by Cathy Fooks and Lisa Maslove at the CPRN website at <http://www.cprn.org/en/doc.cfm?doc=1112>
----------
OECD CRITICAL OF LEARNING DIMENSION IN CANADIAN CHILD CARE : On October 25th the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development released a report on CanadaÂs child-care system. The report was highly critical of CanadaÂs system, describing it as inefficient, fragmented and ignoring early learning. Four provinces  British Columbia, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Prince Edward Island  as well as the federal government participated in the study. The report notes that in 2001 62.3% of mothers whose youngest child was under 3 years of age were in the labour force and 73.4% of mothers whose youngest child was between 3 and 5 were in the labour force.
LINKS:
Early Childhood Education and Care Policy: Canada Country Note (97-pages, PDF) at <http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/42/34/33850725.pdf>
OECD Thematic Review of Early Childhood Education and Care Canadian Background Report (137 pages, PDF) at <http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/41/36/33852192.pdf>
Issue File on the OECD Report by the Child Care Resource and Research Unit (CCRU) of the University of Toronto (including links to other documents, news coverage and responses) at <http://www.childcarecanada.org/res/issues/oecdthematicreviewcanadareports.html>
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COMPUTER USE ON THE JOB IMPROVES WAGES FOR DISABLED WORKERS: The Disability Research Information Page (DRIP) hosted by the Canadian Council on Social Development (CCSD) has been updated with a new fact sheet: Workers with Disabilities and the impact of workplace structures. Using data from Statistics Canada 2001 Workplace and Employee Survey (WES) and the 2001 Adult Participation and Activity Limitation Survey (PALS), the fact sheet presents charts and narrative about labour force outcomes such as wage rates, job satisfaction, training and promotions for workers with and without disabilities. Among the findings: 34.7% of workers without disabilities were very satisfied with their jobs, compared to 25.6% of workers with disabilities; 35% of workers with disabilities who used computers on the job were in the highest wage quartile.
LINKS:
Disability Fact Sheet #16: Workers with Disabilities and the impact of workplace structures (8 pages, PDF) at <http://www.ccsd.ca/drip/research/drip16/drip16.pdf>
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12% OF RETIREES WOULD HAVE KEPT WORKING IF RETIREMENT NOT MANDATORY: An article released in the Statistics CanadaÂs online Perspectives on Labour and Income reports that more than 25% of people who retired between 1992 and 2002 would have continued working if they had they been able to reduce their work schedule without diminishing their pension benefits. About 27% of respondents to the survey would have continued if their health had been better. Immigrants, university-educated individuals and those who received an early retirement incentive were the most likely to consider working past age 65 if alternative work arrangements were available. The study is based on data from the 2002 General Social Survey.
LINKS:
The Daily summary of the article is at <http://www.statcan.ca/Daily/English/041026/d041026d.htm>
ÂRetaining older workers" appears in Online Perspectives on Labour and Income (Oct. 2004). The entire issue can be downloaded online from <http://www.statcan.ca/cgi-bin/downpub/pickup.cgi?issue=1100475-001-XIE.pdf>
----------
VOLUNTARY COMPLIANCE EXPECTED FOR NEW PENSION PLAN GOVERNANCE GUIDELINES: The final version of Pension Plan Governance Guidelines and Self-Assessment Questionnaire was released on October 25 by the Canadian Association of Pension Supervisory Authorities (CAPSA). CAPSA had initiated consultations with industry stakeholders in May 2001 and established an industry task force in 2002 to develop principles and guidelines for CanadaÂs pension plan administrators. Some changes have been made to the draft version which was released in July 2003. CAPSA recommends that defined contribution pension plans in which members make investment decisions follow CAPSA Guideline #3: Guidelines for Capital Accumulation Plans, (released in May 2004) in addition to the new Governance Guidelines.
LINKS:
Pension Plan Governance Guidelines and Self-Assessment Questionnaire and Guideline #3 are available in PDF files from the CAPSA website at <http://www.capsa-acor.org/>
----------
IMPROVEMENTS TO 2 ONTARIO GOVERNMENT WEBSITES: The Ontario Labour Relations Board launched an updated website in October, providing a much clearer interface and more online information. Recent Decisions of Interest are highlighted and full-text of those decisions is available. OLRB Decisions since Jan. 2000 are available at the Canadian Legal Information Institute website at <http://www.canlii.org/on/cas/onlrb/>
The Ontario Human Rights Tribunal website has also been recently improved, most notably to provide free online access to the decisions of the Tribunal. At the moment, the site provides a searchable database of decisions back to 2000, but plans are to include the full text of the decisions back to 1962.
LINKS:
Ontario Labour Relations Board website at <http://www.olrb.gov.on.ca/english/homepage.htm>, includes recent Decisions of Interest available at <http://www.olrb.gov.on.ca/english/decint.htm> .
Ontario Human Rights Tribunal at <http://www.hrto.ca/>http://www.hrto.ca/
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HEALTHY WORKPLACE WEEK IS OCTOBER 25 TO 31: The 4th annual Healthy Workplace Week in Canada is overseen by the Canadian Healthy Workplace Council and administered by the National Quality Institute (NQI), the Canadian Centre for Occupational Health & Safety (CCOHS) and the Health Work & Wellness Conference (HWWC). The healthy workplace website contains activities for the week, long-term strategies for a healthy workplace and case studies of company programs.
LINKS:
Healthy Workplace website at <http://www.healthyworkplaceweek.ca/>
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Centre for Industrial Relations 121 St. George St. Toronto Canada M5S 2E8 <http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/cir>
_____________________________
This information is provided to subscribers, friends, faculty, students and alumni of the School of Industrial & Labor Relations (ILR). It is a service of the Institute for Workplace Studies (IWS) in New York City. Stuart Basefsky is responsible for the selection of the contents which is intended to keep researchers, companies, workers, and governments aware of the latest information related to ILR disciplines as it becomes available for the purposes of research, understanding and debate. The content does not reflect the opinions or positions of Cornell University, the School of Industrial & Labor Relations, or that of Mr. Basefsky and should not be construed as such. The service is unique in that it provides the original source documentation, via links, behind the news and research of the day. Use of the information provided is unrestricted. However, it is requested that users acknowledge that the information was found via the IWS Documented News Service.
Stuart Basefsky
Director, IWS News Bureau
Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell/ILR School
16 E. 34th Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10016
Telephone: (607) 255-2703
Fax: (607) 255-9641
E-mail: smb6@cornell.edu
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