Workplace Innovations: Research and Statistics

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Workplace Bulletin November 29, 2006

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The Workplace Information Directorate is your source for up-to-date, customized information on industrial relations and collective bargaining. We can advise and assist you in preparing for and supporting the resolution of issues at the bargaining table, in keeping abreast of developments in the industrial relations field and satisfy your specific research requirements.

Leaving School - Results From a National Survey Comparing School Leavers and High School Graduates 18 to 20 Years of Age - January 1995

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More leavers than graduates encountered unemployment and more male leavers than graduates worked in blue collar occupations, while more female leavers than graduates worked in service jobs., Leavers, to a greater extent than graduates, were interested in pursuing engineering and applied science technologies and trades, while more graduates were interested in educational, recreational and counselling services; commerce, management and business administration; engineering and applied sciences and health professions (Table 8-6)., Female leavers and graduates were clustered in clerical, sales and service jobs with female leavers tending to be in service jobs (40%) and female graduates tending to be in clerical and related positions (39%).

Leaving School - Results From a National Survey Comparing School Leavers and High School Graduates 18 to 20 Years of Age - January 1995

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This is likely due to the combination of a number of factors: (a) the survey data will reflect changes in school attendance and completion, for example, during a recession, (b) the administrative data examine a phenomenon that is still taking place, the process of schooling, while the surveys attempt to capture the results of this process after it has occurred by selecting older individuals, thus accommodating transfers, interruptions, etc., (c) the surveys may have difficulty locating some of the non-completers., 1 Estimates From Survey Data Used in the Table Are Based on the Following Definitions: Census: without secondary certificate, age 20, not attending school; based on province of residence., School Leavers Survey: without high school graduation, age 20, not in school; based on province of schooling.

Leaving School - Results From a National Survey Comparing School Leavers and High School Graduates 18 to 20 Years of Age - January 1995

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A computer assisted telephone interview (CATI) administered from April - June, 1991 obtained demographic/background, school experience, and post-school labour market and other outcome measures, along with whether respondents were in school (continuers), had graduated (graduates) or had left before graduating (leavers)., Part-time employment was related to school-leaving, with lower leaver rates coming from students who worked less than 20 hours per week during the school year, and higher rates for those who worked long weekly hours, or did not work at all., School performance differed for leavers and graduates, with leavers more likely to have failed an elementary grade, have lower grade averages, and have difficulty with, or fail, core courses such as mathematics, science and English/French.

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Workplace Bulletin November 15, 2006

Innovation Workplace Practices

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Innovation Workplace Practices

Innovative Workplace Practices

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Links to innovative workplace practices published in the Workplace Gazette.

Leaving School - Results From a National Survey Comparing School Leavers and High School Graduates 18 to 20 Years of Age - January 1995

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Virginia Miller, Doug Giddings, Patricia Mosher and Yigal Messeri January 1995

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Workplace Bulletin October 30, 2006

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Workplace Bulletin August 15, 2006

A Workplace that Works

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Actions for a workplace that works: Looking ahead, the actions required for a safe and healthy workplace include: the strong enforcement of existing health and safety law; the establishment of ergonomics regulations; gathering more and better information on the determinants of health in the workplace; the strengthening of existing workplace health and safety committees; and, the creation of workplace equality committees., Actions for a workplace that works: It is important that workers' access to training begin to be treated as a right of workers and that they have access to: appropriate amounts of time off work for training; training with low fees or no fees; training that meets recognized standards; and, income support during training., Issues: Key factors that create workplace inequalities for workers who are women, visible minorities, Aboriginal and people with disabilities are consistently lower wages/earnings and benefits, harassment and workplace inequities.

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Workplace Bulletin August 15, 2006

Workplace Bulletin

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Workplace Bulletin August 15, 2006

Workplace Bulletin

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Workplace Bulletin August 15, 2006

Workplace Bulletin

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Workplace Bulletin August 15, 2006

Leaving School - Results From a National Survey Comparing School Leavers and High School Graduates 18 to 20 Years of Age - January 1995

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And in fact, there are striking differences in the school experiences of leavers and graduates, ranging from their ability to get along with teachers, to interest in and attendance at classes, participation in school activities, friendship networks, and a sense of belonging., Not unexpectedly, in light of leavers' dissatisfaction with school and lack of involvement in school activities, they were more likely than graduates to skip classes during their last year of school., The difference between leavers and graduates was particularly pronounced among men: 36% of male leavers, compared with 22% of male graduates were dissatisfied with school rules.

Leaving School - Results From a National Survey Comparing School Leavers and High School Graduates 18 to 20 Years of Age - January 1995

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38 The high-risk group consists of those in one or more of the following categories: with dependent children; ever-married; with disabilities; living with neither parent; lone-parent families where the parent had less than postsecondary education; two-parent families where the father was not working and the mother either was not working or had a pink or blue collar job; two-parent families where both parents were blue collar workers; or two-parent families where the father's education was unknown., 36 In two-parent families, "low" parental education refers to families where one or both parents had not graduated from high school; "medium," to families where both parents were high school graduates or where one had at least some postsecondary education, and the other had less; and "high" to families where both parents had at least some postsecondary education., In two-parent families, there were eight times as many female leavers whose mothers had low education as had high education; by contrast, among male leavers, low-education mothers were three times as numerous as those with high education (Chart 3-6).

Leaving School - Results From a National Survey Comparing School Leavers and High School Graduates 18 to 20 Years of Age - January 1995

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Many high school non-completers come from low socio-economic backgrounds, 17 from single-parent households 18, from basic or general academic streams/programs, 19 have failed at least one course during their high school career, work for pay more than 15 hours a week, have low selfesteem, are frustrated learners with short-range rather than long-range goals, feel alienated from teachers, peers, and curriculum, and are concrete rather than abstract thinkers., Chapter 4 compares the high school experiences of leavers and graduates: reasons for leaving; interest in courses; academic and social involvement; friendship patterns; reasons for returning to school after leaving; and reactions to school departure., We believe that a new vision for the Canadian economy is needed, one in which Canada's natural resource abundance is fully exploited, in which firms and governments focus on creating advanced skills and technology, in which sophisticated home demand drives more firms to create advanced products and processes, in which many more Canadian firms compete globally, and in which competition provides a key stimulus for continual upgrading."

Leaving School - Results From a National Survey Comparing School Leavers and High School Graduates 18 to 20 Years of Age - January 1995

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Female graduates were much more likely to report some degree of alcohol use than were female leavers (73% versus 56%) while similar proportions of male leavers (74%) and graduates (77%) consumed alcohol in their final year (Chart 7-2)., In fact, the proportion of leavers who had used soft drugs or misused prescription drugs (30%) was nearly double the proportion of graduates ( 16%) (Chart 7-1)., Although participation in such activities may not necessarily lead to the decision to leave school, these deviant behaviour patterns may act as red flags, indicating students at greater risk of leaving school before graduation.

Leaving School - Results From a National Survey Comparing School Leavers and High School Graduates 18 to 20 Years of Age - January 1995

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To provide national and provincial leaver rates for twenty-year-olds within a coefficient of variation of 16.5%, and to have continuers, leavers and graduates, each considered separately, possess some characteristic from the questionnaire estimated within a coefficient of variation of 16.5%, a final sample size of 18,000 was decided upon., This match also accommodated those situations where the support for a selected individual was transferred from one parent to the other and the previous parent knew the whereabouts of the selected individual, as well as the situation where the people who lived at the previous address of the family would know of the whereabouts of the selected individual., Demographic Projections: Since the target population for the survey was to cover all individuals aged eighteen to twenty in the ten provinces, comparisons were made between the estimates of total population achieved from the survey with those from demographic projections.

Leaving School - Results From a National Survey Comparing School Leavers and High School Graduates 18 to 20 Years of Age - January 1995

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It can adjust for deaths and migration, but is less successful in dealing with (a) program changes within the system, such as students who transfer to a vocational or work experience program, thereby putting them out of step with their entering cohort, (b) students who graduate early, (c) students who take more than four years to graduate, (d) any equivalent, alternative or advanced education taken after leaving school, (e) changing administrative definitions (ea. special education students included in Grade 9 or in ungraded enrolment) or means of record keeping., Advantages of using the Labour Force Survey include: (a) this technique can offer a very timely reflection of the school leaving phenomenon, (b) data are used to compare school non-completion rates among the OECD countries, (c) as the measure of educational attainment is part of the broader coverage of the Labour Force Survey, it can be readily linked analytically to employment measures and thereby, economic trends, Advantages of using Census data are: (a) the educational attainment information is based on a 20% sample of the entire population and therefore is subject to a very small sampling error, (b) a periodic benchmark for educational attainment is provided along with many other personal and household characteristics which provide a rich analytic basis for further analyses, (c) more complete coverage of the educational attainment of the population is provided, which may get around possible differences in the administrative records of education jurisdictions.

Leaving School - Results From a National Survey Comparing School Leavers and High School Graduates 18 to 20 Years of Age - January 1995

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Only respondents who had completed Grade 8 or more in Quebec or British Columbia and Grade 9 or more in the other provinces were asked to report grade averages in high school, course difficulties, and course failure in high school., Although academic performance is seen as a key variable in the school leaving process and differences in the performance of graduates and leavers have been found, much more needs to be discovered about the factors involved in, and consequences of, academic performance., Female leavers were much more likely than female graduates to report difficulties in science (44% versus 26%), while the difference between male leavers and graduates was much less pronounced (29% versus 22%) (Chart 5-3).

Leaving School - Results From a National Survey Comparing School Leavers and High School Graduates 18 to 20 Years of Age - January 1995

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A third type of study which would contribute knowledge in this important area is to replicate essential components of the School Leavers Survey (with new measures added) in 1995, thereby obtaining the latest rate information, and then to track respondents over the next 3 - 5 years, the crucial formative period concerning education, training and employment., While the School Leavers Survey can estimate rates and investigate background and school experience variables, it and other cross-sectional surveys can say little about the process of alternative, equivalent, and advanced education beyond the age group of their samples. in the case of the SLS., In a competitive economy dominated by technology and advanced skills and competencies, high school completion may be the minimum level of education needed to have an opportunity to compete in the labour market, obtain an entry-level job, and to secure a basic standard of living.

Leaving School - Results From a National Survey Comparing School Leavers and High School Graduates 18 to 20 Years of Age - January 1995

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It seems likely, however, that intensive work involvement increases the risk of school-leaving for many students, particularly males, either because the balance between the time demands of school and work can no longer be maintained, or because long work hours are indicative of an underlying process of disengagement from school., It appears that part-time employment involving a moderate number of hours per week during the school year may promote behaviours and attitudes that lead to perseverance in school, regardless of students' academic performance levels and school experiences., In contrast, students with lower school performance and negative school experiences may lack the necessary skills or the interest in employment, or may take on jobs with extensive time commitments as they begin to disengage from school in favour of work.

Innovation Workplace Practices

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Innovation Workplace Practices

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Workplace Bulletin July 28, 2006

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Workplace Bulletin July 14, 2006

Leaving School - Results From a National Survey Comparing School Leavers and High School Graduates 18 to 20 Years of Age - January 1995

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The number of high school dropouts and the factors influencing premature school departure are strategic indicators of school system functioning. In light of traditionally high estimates of noncompletion (30%), Employment and Immigration Canada commissioned Statistics Canada to conduct a School Leavers Survey (SLS) to estimate the magnitude of the problem and to identify the circumstances associated with dropping out.

Workplace Bulletin

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The Workplace Bulletin will keep you apprised of ongoing developments and provide access to timely customized information on industrial relations and collective bargaining in Canada.

Workplace Bulletin

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The Workplace Bulletin will keep you apprised of ongoing developments and provide access to timely customized information on industrial relations and collective bargaining in Canada.

Workplace Bulletin

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The Workplace Bulletin will keep you apprised of ongoing developments and provide access to timely customized information on industrial relations and collective bargaining in Canada.

Workplace Bulletin

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The Workplace Bulletin will keep you apprised of ongoing developments and provide access to timely customized information on industrial relations and collective bargaining in Canada.

Workplace Bulletin

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The Workplace Bulletin will keep you apprised of ongoing developments and provide access to timely customized information on industrial relations and collective bargaining in Canada.

Workplace Bulletin

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The Workplace Bulletin will keep you apprised of ongoing developments and provide access to timely customized information on industrial relations and collective bargaining in Canada.

Workplace Bulletin

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The Workplace Bulletin will keep you apprised of ongoing developments and provide access to timely customized information on industrial relations and collective bargaining in Canada.

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Workplace Bulletin june 15, 2006

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The Workplace Bulletin will keep you apprised of ongoing developments and provide access to timely customized information on industrial relations and collective bargaining in Canada.

Innovative Practices in Collective Agreements

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A PowerPoint presentation, by Suzanne Payette, CHRP, highlights the economic context for innovations in Canadian collective agreements and provides examples of contract language negotiated by employers and unions.

Jobless Recovery: Is it Really Happening - October 1995

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Concerns over the weak recovery in employment following the 1990-91 recession led many observers to describe this period as a “jobless recovery”. This research paper uses econometric estimations and simulations of employment equations to determine if the weakness in employment growth over the 1991-95 period can be explained by weak output growth, the evolution of real wages, industrial restructuring or the evolution in the real cost of capital.

Innovation Workplace Practices

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Innovative workplace practices published in the Workplace Gazette

2005 Overview and Innovative Practices

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A PowerPoint presentation, by Suzanne Payette, CHRP, highlights the economic context for innovations in Canadian collective agreements and provides examples of contract language negotiated by employers and unions.

Innovation Workplace Practices

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Innovation Workplace Practices

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Links to innovative workplace practices published in the Workplace Gazette in 2005.

Innovation Workplace Practices

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Innovative workplace practices published in the Workplace Gazette

Innovation Workplace Practices

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Innovative workplace practices published in the Workplace Gazette

Innovation and Change in Labour Organizations in Canada: Results of the National 2000-2001 HRDC Survey

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In order to obtain a portrait of innovation and change in the goals, strategies, policies and practices of labour organizations in Canada, Professors Pradeep Kumar and Gregor Murray have worked in collaboration with Workplace Information Directorate and the major union organizations in Canada to design and administer a survey of unions. The objective is to provide a better understanding of union responses to a changing environment.

Innovation Workplace Practices

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Innovation Workplace Practices

Innovation Workplace Practices

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Links to innovative workplace practices published in the Workplace Gazette.

Innovative Workplace Practices

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This overview of workplace innovations is based on a review of 62 collective agreement settlements negotiated during the first quarter of 2004. Of these, slightly over one half (34 settlements) contained provisions considered to be innovative or of particular interest.

Innovative Workplace Practices

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This overview of workplace innovations is based on a review of 81 collective agreement settlements negotiated during the third quarter of 2003. Of these, slightly over one-half (43 settlements) contained provisions considered to be innovative or of particular interest.

Innovative Workplace Practices

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This overview of workplace innovations is based on a review of 87 collective agreement settlements negotiated during the third quarter of 2004. Of these, 37 settlements contained provisions considered to be innovative or of particular interest.

Innovative Workplace Practices

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This overview of workplace innovations is based on a review of 69 collective agreement settlements negotiated during the fourth quarter of 2003. Of these, slightly under one-half (34 settlements) contained provisions considered to be innovative or of particular interest.

Innovative Workplace Practices

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This overview of workplace innovations is based on a review of 95 collective agreement settlements negotiated during the second quarter of 2004. Of these, slightly less than one half (44 settlements) contained provisions considered to be innovative or of particular interest.

Previously Published in the Workplace Gazette

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Links to innovative workplace practices published in the Workplace Gazette in 2003.

Previously Published in the Workplace Gazette

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Links to innovative workplace practices published in the Workplace Gazette in 2004.

Previously Published in the Workplace Gazette

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Links to innovative workplace practices published in the Workplace Gazette in 2002.

Previously Published in the Workplace Gazette

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Links to innovative workplace practices published in the Workplace Gazette in 2000.

Previously Published in the Workplace Gazette

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Links to innovative workplace practices published in the Workplace Gazette in 2001.