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Gap Time: Is Your Business Prepared?

Submitted by jessica on Mon, 06/22/2009 - 22:53.

If I were to ask you what "Gap Time" was - you probably wouldn't be able to tell me what it was.  In fact, up until a couple of years ago I probably couldn't have told you what it was either.  Recently, I was at an assembly where I asked the question about Gap Time to students, executives and unions leaders.   Nobody, except two young Mexican college students  were able to correctly give a definition for "Gap Time" which is - the period of time where new immigrants learn to adjust to language, and culture.

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Extreme Home Makover and Farm Accidents

Submitted by jessica on Mon, 12/08/2008 - 00:23.

Sunday evening is usually a time where I relax and get ready organized for the next work week that lies ahead. So as I was cleaning up my kitchen and writing my weekly “to do” list I had my TV on in the background.     The ABC show Extreme Home Makeover came on and I stopped what I was doing to hear the opening story of the family who was being helped.    Apparently, the DeVries Family had a mom who had a very serious heart condition and a father who had lost his arm in a farm accident. The accident left him unable to do many of the huge projects that needed to be done around the house.

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We Ask the Right Questions... in Portugeuse, Italian and French

Submitted by Rob on Sun, 09/28/2008 - 12:36.

We tell hundreds of students, parents, employers, employees and the general public every year to speak up on the job and ask ask ask: Where's the hot equipment is, where might it be slippery underfoot, what kind of equipment shoudl I wear? What are company policies on health/safey, and what happens if someone doesn't follow them?

We've had a great little video out for a short while now called 'Ask the Right Questions", and then we asked ourselves a good question: What about those folks whose first language isn't English? How will they get the important message this video has for them, too?

So, we translated "Ask the Right Questions" into:

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Immigrant men twice as likely to get hurt at work

Submitted by Rob on Tue, 07/15/2008 - 10:30.

As if it isn't hard enough to get a decent job in a new country, recent stats bear out that immigrant workers are more likely to get hurt at work than native-born employees. Two new studies by the The Institute for Work & Health (IWH), an independent, not-for-profit organization, compare work conditions and injury rates between immigrants and workers born in Canada, and come up with some startling conclusions.

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Immigrants didn't come here to risk their kids' lives

Submitted by Rob on Thu, 04/03/2008 - 09:40.

I spoke to about more than 200 adults at the Yorkdale Adult Learning Centre in Toronto this week; it was my first time speaking to adult students. (I usually speak to high school or college students and adult workers.) I was struck by a few impressions:

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