Canada Day – Will you be paid?
Judy Haiven explains the complexities around getting paid for working on Canada Day.
Labour
Dine and dash – gouging restaurant servers
Lately we have heard a lot about dine and dash, people who don’t pay their restaurant bill. Some restaurant owners make the server pay. This is both illegal and immoral, writes Judy Haiven. “Where are the managers and owners: aren’t managers supposed to manage? Aren’t they supposed to watch out for diners who dash?”
Former Halifax firefighter Liane Tessier on the need for a public inquiry into racism and bullying at HRM: The city simply can’t be trusted
Liane Tessier , the former Halifax firefighter and co-founder of Equity Watch, believes that Halifax employees who suffered racism, misogyny and bullying at work deserve a public inquiry, not just some quarterly updates to Council and a review by an external consultant. Tessier fought the city for 12 years after suffering abuse by management and fellow workers before she was vindicated.
And then there were three. Two more former councillors join call for public inquiry into racism and bullying at HRM
Two more former councillors join Jackie Barkhouse in her call for a public inquiry into workplace bullying and racism at HRM.
Prior FOIPOP request shows Halifax action against workplace racism moving along at snail′s pace
We’re making good progress addressing racism at the workplace, said Halifax CAO Jacques Dubé. The numbers tell a different story.
Former HRM councillor’s reports of widespread workplace harassment and bullying fell on deaf ears
Former Halifax Councillor Jackie Barkhouse says that during her term she often told management and Mayor Kelly of staff being harassed and bullied, but that these reports were ignored. Barkhouse believes now is the time for an independent and public inquiry into the toxic workplace that HRM has become for many employees.
Op-ed: Racism and bullying at HRM warrant a public inquiry
Our mayor and Council don’t have the political will to put an end to the bullying and racism that sp many HRM workers are being subjected to.
HRM lawyer defended racist slurs as protected speech
An HRM lawyer argued that racist comments made by employees at Halifax Transit are protected by the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Very smooth.
Group calls for inquiry into racism, bullying at City Hall
Equity Watch, a group opposed to workplace bullying and discrimination, calls for an independent inquiry into workplace conditions at the Halifax Regional Municipality after the latest revelations about racism at Halifax Transit.
News brief: Racism allowed to fester at Halifax Transit for decades
A Nova Scotia Human Rights tribunal has found that HRM allowed racism to fester unchallenged at Halifax Transit.To what extent such horrific racism still occurs at Halifax transit today, and what the City will do beyond the NSHRC-mandated measures we may never know.