by Calgary Alternative Employment Services | Sep 10, 2015 | Blog
October is Disability Employment Awareness Month. In celebration of this month, the Calgary Employment First Network has planned several events in the Calgary community. The ‘Workplace Diversity Strategies Seminar’ has been developed specifically for...
by Calgary Alternative Employment Services | Aug 13, 2015 | Blog
In the midst of the ongoing speculation surrounding our economy, a newly elected provincial government, and a federal election in the fall – I wanted to take time to shed light on what I feel is perhaps sadly one of the most short sighted casualties of...
by Calgary Alternative Employment Services | Jul 30, 2015 | Blog
Previous blog posts by my esteemed colleagues have done a fantastic job of shedding light on skewed reporting and dispelling common myths surrounding the increase to the Alberta Minimum Wage. I feel it would be remiss not to shed light on the seldom considered,...
by Calgary Alternative Employment Services | Jul 15, 2015 | Blog
Michal Rozworski’s article ‘Five Myths to Bust about Minimum Wage Hikes’ shares with the reader 5 myths regarding the minimum wage hikes, and starts off with a preliminary background on the issue of raising the minimum wage. Rozworski expands into...
by Calgary Alternative Employment Services | Jul 14, 2015 | Blog
This series of upcoming blogs deals with the issue of increasing the minimum wage to $15.00 per hour. My colleagues and I find the issue is fraught with misinformation, and we find that media quite often will present only one opinion on this issue. Granted, different...
