Part time delivery employees at Foodora, online food delivery company, have decided to unionize. The Ontario Labour Relations Board said today that since Foodora part time employees are dependent contractors they can unionize. Until today, Foodora employees were considered independent contractors, and had no legal right to unionize and did not have the same benefits … Continue reading Foodora’s Couriers To Unionize in Ontario
Update #1: The company in this story, Clearview AI, has just been hacked and more than 2,200 organizations spanning law enforcement to universities have their information accessed. Clearview has clients such as US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Department of Justice, the FBI, Macy’s, Best Buy. In Canada multiple police agencies have used them such … Continue reading UPDATED: Canadian Privacy Agency to Investigate US Facial Recognition Firm
Canadian government is set to introduce a new law, where it will give special powers to CRTC, Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications, to regular tech companies in Canada. Government said that it will provide updates to the new legislation, to give more power to CRTC, which will include letting CRTC issue licences, fine companies that do … Continue reading CRTC To Regulate Tech Firms like Facebook and Google in Canada
As reported by Wall Street Journal, salaries for software developers outside of Silicon Valley are rising fast. This is due to the fact that the companies are expending outside of Silicon Valley and bidding up the software developers’ salaries. For example, average salaries in Silicon Valley for 2018 were around $220,000 Canadian dollars, increasing 6% … Continue reading Software Developers’ Salaries in Toronto are Rising Fast
A total of around 60,000 people were employed in the tech sector in the city of Toronto in 2019. That’s 16.6% increase from 2018. If you compare the tech jobs’ employment to 2014 for example, the IT sector in the City of Toronto has almost doubled. John Tory, Mayor of Toronto, has said most companies … Continue reading Toronto’s Number of Tech Jobs DoubleS in 5 Years
Google has announced last week that it will be adding three times more employees than they have now in Toronto, Montreal and Waterloo – Kitchener, Ontario. Google hopes to get the hires in within the next few years. Each location will get a new office. Kitchener is expected to have the largest number of employees … Continue reading Google to Hire Up To 5,000 Employees in Canada
