Safe, convenient and relatively well paid! Nothing is better than working on campus if you are a student and want a job. There are a lot of favorable part-time positions hiding in our campus. Two students, local and international, shared how they got their jobs and what they believe is important when job hunting.
Over 220,000 students won’t have to worry about chaos in Ontario colleges or face crossing noisy picket lines when school starts in September. The union representing 8,000 support staff have reached a tentative agreement with Ontario’s 24 colleges.
What needs to happen to stop the practice of unpaid internships?
Union leader says faculty willing to strike for recommendations in new report on education in Ontario colleges
It was 5:30 a.m. on Thursday, April 3. Loyalist College student Aaron Murray, 21, was driving home on Highway 7 near from an overnight shift on an unpaid placement as a security guard at Trent University.
Under the table jobs, commonly known as ‘cash jobs’ have picked up momentum among international students looking for an alternative way to meet their expenses in the city.
Students, youth and labour activists in Ontario came together and formed Students Against Unpaid Internship Scams (SAUIS) to campaign on issues surrounding current laws around unpaid internships.
Come June 1, the minimum wage, frozen since 2010, will rise from $10.25 to $11 an hour in Ontario.
Anqi Shen CUP Ontario Bureau Chief HAMILTON (CUP) — A bill tabled just before the start of 2014 outlines potential protections for co-op students and unpaid interns in Ontario.
Anqi Shen CUP Ontario Bureau Chief HAMILTON (CUP) — Several student unions in Ontario have joined the campaign to raise the minimum wage to $14. Anti-poverty groups proposed the minimum wage hike in March this year as part of their ‘Fair Wages Now’ campaign.
Jane Lytvynenko CUP Ottawa Bureau Chief OTTAWA (CUP) — The notion of today’s youth being the “lost generation” is being challenged by a new report from TD Economics. Published Oct. 22, the study focused on the skill mismatch and labour shortages in the market over the last 10 years. It found the picture is not…
Anqi Shen CUP Ontario Bureau Chief HAMILTON (CUP) — Ontario legislation that protects workers against unsafe working conditions does not cover unpaid interns, according to a Ministry of Labour briefing that has recently surfaced. The confidential memo, dated March 27, 2013 and discovered by the Toronto Star, explains that the Occupational Health and Safety Act (OHSA)…
