Translation of "écarts sur coûts de la main-d'œuvre directe " (French → English) :

Labour costs in the EU-Hourly labour costs ranged from €4.1 to €41.3 across the EU Member States in 2015-Lowest in Bulgaria and Romania, highest in Denmark and Belgium // Brussels, 1 April 2016

(Return tabled) Question No. 334 Hon. Irwin Cotler: With regard to bijuralism and harmonization: (a) what measures are in place to ensure legislative bijuralism across all departments; (b) since the adoption of the “Policy on Legislative Bijuralism”, how has the Department of Justice (i) ensured that all legal counsel in the Department are made aware of the requirements of legislative bijuralism in order for them to be able to take it into account when advising client departments on legislative reforms, (ii) enhanced the capacity of the Legislative Services Branch to draft bijural legislative texts, (iii) undertook, in drafting both ver ...[+++]sions of every bill and proposed regulation that touches on provincial or territorial private law, to take care to reflect the terminology, concepts, notions and institutions of both of Canada’s private law systems; (c) since the adoption of the “Policy for Applying the Civil Code of Quebec to Federal Government Activities”, what measures are in place to ensure (i) changes to Quebec’s Civil Code are known and monitored by the government, (ii) assessment of federal legislation relative to changes to Quebec’s Civil Code, (iii) federal legislation is introduced to reflect, where necessary, changes to the Civil Code of Quebec; (d) with respect to the “Index of Bijuralism and Harmonization Caselaw” found online and indicating its most recent update was June 12, 2012, (i) how often is this page updated, (ii) given that some cases thereupon are from 2013, when was this page last updated, (iii) whose responsibility is it to update this page, (iv) what cases are currently being monitored for potential addition to this page; (e) with respect to cases involving bijuralism and harmonization, (i) in what ways are these made known to the Department, (ii) whose responsibility it is to monitor these cases, (iii), what role does the Federal government play in these cases if a party, (iv) what role does the government play if not a party, (v) who m ...

The labour cost gap is a measure comparing Chrysler/CAW facilities with the Canadian transplants, such as Honda and Toyota.

The CAW has been provided with alternative approaches by us, as well as a detailed proposal for closing the CAW labour cost gap of approximately $20 per hour.

To some extent, these population trends are the outcome of another long-term trend, namely, the substitution of capital for labour, a process driven by rising labour costs.[19] These rising labour costs are, in turn, the outcome of strong demand for labour from growth in the urban manufacturing and service sectors, a process that has been driven by the ever-present quest for productivity gains and competitive advantage.

Given that the EI premium, as a payroll tax, directly increases the cost of labour, and accepting that we have an unemployment rate in Canada that is unacceptably high and remains fairly stubbornly high, if we're serious about reducing unemployment, should it not be a real priority to reduce EI premiums and reduce the cost of labour, thus increasing demand for labour and putting more Canadians back to work?