by Alliance | Feb 10, 2021 | Picture
In an online press conference today, business owners from across Ontario came together today to call for the provincial government to legislate guaranteed paid sick leave for all workers. Small and mid-sized businesses know firsthand that paid sick days are good for...
by Alliance | Jan 27, 2021 | Picture
What is it? Workers in Canada need a minimum of seven paid sick days, and 14 in a pandemic. A paid sick day is just that – you are paid your full wage for the day with no deductions and no requirement to make up the time unpaid later. You won’t be penalized, demoted...
by Alliance | Aug 12, 2020 | Picture
Many small businesses across Ontario and the rest of Canada are gradually adjusting to re-opening. New challenges and problems are cropping up for local businesses every day: how to space out or schedule staff, how to make sure there is enough hand sanitizer and face...
by Alliance | Jun 24, 2020 | Picture
Employees across Canada have been impacted inequitably by COVID-19. Many of us have been shocked to learn that huge numbers of essential workers don’t have paid sick days, including – shockingly – thousands of frontline healthcare workers. The evidence...
by Alliance | May 13, 2020 | Picture
Even as we’ve been figuring out a “new normal” since the start of COVID-19, decent work businesses are thinking about how to be a good employer during a crisis. After all, when we open up again, we want our staff to be financially secure. And we want...
by Alliance | Apr 9, 2020 | Picture
We are facing a huge public health and economic crisis, and we need commercial rent relief now. For the most part, small businesses are not in a position to take on more debt or benefit from tax deferrals. Reductions in property taxes are not a solution, for the...
by Alliance | Mar 30, 2020 | Picture
The news changes day by day, but here’s what we know about help for small businesses during COVID-19 as of June 12, 2020. Help with staffing costs while business slows down 1. Wage subsidies – 75% CEWS and 10% CRA subsidy The Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy (CEWS)...
by Alliance | Feb 12, 2020 | Picture
Small Business, Money, and Ethics. Oh my! Sam here, with a post about my small business Broad Lingerie, money, and ethics. Talking about money is uncomfortable! Which is why most of us avoid it. But not talking about money means a lot of things go unknown or get...
by Alliance | Oct 22, 2019 | Picture
Business owners aren’t fooled by the myth that better wages and fair workplace practices are bad for business. What businesses in our network are concerned about is an economy in which too many working Ontarians are living in poverty. Precarious work is not good...
by Alliance | Aug 16, 2019 | Picture
Research shows that many care about the ethics of where they shop. A survey of millennial consumers showed, for instance, that 79% wished it were easier to know which companies have good practices. We all look for savings where possible. But given the choice, are we...
by Alliance | Jun 11, 2019 | Picture
For businesses to truly thrive, we must all obey the same rules. With less enforcement of existing employment laws as of 2019, we are seeing businesses use false “independent contractors” and we are left wondering: why doesn’t the government help the business...
by Alliance | May 29, 2019 | Picture
Since January 2019, workplaces are no longer required to put up a poster about employment standards. Every employee deserves to know their employment rights outlined in the Employment Standards Act. We decided to make our own decent work standards poster. Download...
by Alliance | May 21, 2019 | Picture
Several changes to employment laws being looked at by the federal government, including a federal minimum wage, present undeniable benefits to the Canadian economy, if implemented. Even though changing the federal minimum wage would only directly affect workers...
by Alliance | Mar 27, 2019 | Picture
Submitted to the Ministry of Labour for the business consultation on pay transparency As a network of Ontario business owners who believe in investing in good jobs to boost our bottom lines, we are concerned that the Pay Transparency Act, which seeks to narrow the...
by Alliance | Feb 15, 2019 | Picture
Photo by Ben White A social enterprise can exist in any sector. It’s a business that draws at least 50% of its revenue from selling goods and/or services from the marketplace and reinvests at least 50% of its profits back into community initiatives or a dedicated...
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