Labour

maintenance upgrades

Facility Cleaning & Maintenance

Finding value in maintenance upgrades

When you are looking at budgeting for maintenance upgrades, the question is: how do you get the biggest bang for your buck? Keeping your facility

Facility Cleaning & Maintenance

Recession or inflation worries? Tips on navigating strained economic times

An economic recession affects everybody, from small businesses to large enterprises and every consumer connected. Stalling economic growth and the threat of compounding financial challenges
facility management

Canadian Facility Management & Design

Planning a career change in facility management

For many FM industry members, there seems to be a basic pattern to job hop every two to five years. In today’s changing work environment, it is acceptable to desire greater career challenges or opportunities.
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Facility Cleaning & Maintenance

Technology, workers, and BSCs: Bridging the gap

Hallmark Housekeeping Services Senior VP Chris King discusses how technology can help ease the labour burden – as part of a multifaceted approach
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REMI Network

Inflation and wage increases are twin problems for companies

Inflation, in combination with tight labour markets, is compounding the rising wages in the frontline service workforce.
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Facility Cleaning & Maintenance

Cultivating a culture of care in the cleaning industry

How to balance increased demand with a nationwide labour shortage.
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Facility Cleaning & Maintenance

Toronto janitors & cleaners receive pay rise

Thousands of cleaners are campaigning to get a fair contract and a higher wage amid soaring cost of living.
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Facility Cleaning & Maintenance

Webinar: Managing your labour force in 2022

The webinar with Aspire on April 20 will share HR best practices on how to take your labour management practices to the next level.
David Benoit to head Build Nova Scotia

Canadian Facility Management & Design

NS rules out automatic unionization on weekends

A new regulation under the provincial Trade Union Act responds to an unique aspect of the construction sector's dealings with the Nova Scotia Labour Board.

Facility Cleaning & Maintenance

Building services seen as precarious employment

Cleaners, security guards, parking attendants and building-specific food service workers could attain union certification through a streamlined one-step process if proposed amendments to Ontario's Labour Relations Act are adopted.

REMI Network

Alberta bill overhauls outdated workplace legislation

An Alberta bill called the Fair and Family-friendly Workplaces Act seeks to overhaul outdated workplace legislation.

Canadian Facility Management & Design

Construction sector compares worksite injuries

A new study of worksite injuries in Ontario's ICI construction sector reveals that unionized workers report a higher number of minor incidents, while suffering fewer injuries that result in disability leaves than their non-unionized peers.