Happy Labour Day.
We all want to contribute yet have work life balance. Alberta has updated legislation to help with that.
https://www.alberta.ca/workplace-legislation-changes.aspx
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There's a place on this continent where people are GAINING rights in the workplace? Americans can only imagine!🤦♀️
ReplyDeleteIt was only to catch up to the rest of Canada.
ReplyDeleteI have always thought that Alberta is sort of the "Texas" of Canada. The first oil boom in the '40s and '50s brought lots of Texans there and even though they assimilated as Canadians, residue of that "I got mine, you git yers" mindset remains.
ReplyDeleteI don't think it's quite that bad Brian Arbenz but there is a very strong rural mindset - farmers hate being made to help people they don't want to. Luckily our oil rush was in the 40s and 50s when there was still a strong community involvement. Saskatchewan didn't get nearly the good infrastructure Alberta did.
ReplyDeleteGareth Owen it's not actually prison if you can walk away from the situation - which you can. And the pay is very good - that's what makes it hard to walk away.
When I lived up there, people working out of Fort Mac then got northern allowance, tax breaks and good pay. Costs were high but taxes similar to the rest of Alberta. Camp life could suck but if it suits your personality, it's a great way to collect cash.
ReplyDeleteYou experience indicates changes were needed and this June legislation was brought in to make some changes to benefit workers.
Cass Morrison, thanks for those insights. At least in the U.S., "Farmer" used to mean an average person mutually helping their farmer neighbor, raising barns and so forth. Today, "farmer" tends to mean somebody flying their private plane from landholding to landholding while taking bids from agrichemical companies on their laptop. And they got the holdings by buying out those average people who got in debt over their heads just as commodity prices didn't keep up.
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