Day of Mourning

 Remembering workers injured or killed on the job

Committing to keeping each other safe

The Labour Councils around the province have organized  events. 

We encourage all locals to support and attend the event in your area.

Saskatoon & District Labour Council – Ceremony will take place Monday, April 28^th at 7:00p.m. at Francis Morrison Library (corner of Fourth Ave. and 23^rd Street). Contact Kelly Harrington, President at 306-384-0303 for more information.

Women’s Voice

Quick Statistic: Did you know that of all the people who are working directly in the trades, transportation and equipment sector in Saskatchewan, 6.12 % are women - according to Statistics Canada 2011.

It is with this knowledge in-hand that the YWCA is working to develop a pre-trades pilot program aimed at providing women support and information to help them with developing a sustaining career in the trades. To date, the YWCA has undertaken an Industry Feasibility Study that indicates Industry’s identified need and support for the development of such a program (Phase 1). We are now in the important second phase of hearing women’s direct voice.  To-date, we have held two focus groups asking women directly through a facilitated discussion about their experiences and hopes regarding a future for women in the trades. 

On behalf of the YWCA, I am inviting you to participate in what we are titling this phase, the Women's Voice project. For some this may be a reminder email for others we welcome your interest. 

Please spend a few minutes to help the YWCA develop a successful pilot project.  We want to hear from you, if you are a woman who is:

·        Of High School age or older interested in a career in the trades;

·        Who currently is employed in or who has had a career in the trades, or;

·        Who are knowledgeable, connected and supportive of industry and the trades.

The information that we are gathering will inform a pre-trades program that will be available to women in 2015.  Please add your voice to this important program.

Please click here to take the survey:  https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/YWCA2014womensvoivesurvey

And, please be sure to forward this request  along with a personal note of encouragement to other women you know who’s voice would be important to help inform this process. 

All participants who participate will be entered to win a grand prize of an IPad Mini.  The cut-off for this survey will be Monday, April 28^th.

If you have any questions please contact Alicia @ 306-270-3421 or by email at ywcawomensvoice@gmail.com

Thank you for your time and have a good day,

Alicia Buckley

Regional and Urban Planning Apprentice

Prairie Wild Consulting Co.

For more information about this program please visit the Women’s Voice Facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Womens-Voice/1409242662677320  

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Summer Job Search Tips

Two of our YWCA Saskatoon Employment Counselors were recently featured on TV offering summer job searching tips. 

Follow this link to see the video:

http://globalnews.ca/video/1274469/summer-job-tips-for-students

May Job Finding Club

JFC Information Session 

Thursday April 24, 2014 

1:30 pm to 3:00 pm

Job Finding Club

Thursday May 1 to Thursday May 22

8:30 am to 11:30 am

Contact your Employment Counsellor or

YWCA E&L Reception @

306 - 653-2468 (ext.131)

for more information.

YWCA Closed Good Friday & Easter Monday

Please be advised the YWCA Employment and Learning Center will be closed

Friday April 18

and

Monday April 24.

We will Reopen Tuesday April 25 at 8 am.

Best Wishes.

Social Media and the Job Search: Ten Trends - Part 10

Technology has been a game-changer in the past 10 years, and you better believe it is transforming career development

by Chris Kulbaba

10. Social skills 
For a business to stay competitive, gauging the effectiveness, speed and content of communication skills that lie within a potential hire can be a crucial factor for success of the organization as a whole. For many people, using social media in their daily lives has allowed them to become better at solving problems, researching information, and collaborating with others – all useful talents when searching for a job, during the selection process or once you’ve been hired.

As career professionals, whether we personally use these tools or not, we must be aware of the changes and the potential trends in our ever-changing employment landscape. A global workforce, online collaboration and crowdsourcing – the only thing that will stay the same is that change will always happen. There are fantastic opportunities to share and model success for our clients and ourselves – all it takes is a bit of time to talk to each other and watch the trends.


Chris Kulbaba is an Employment Counselor with the London Employment Help Centre in London, ON. Chris regularly delivers webinars for Conestoga College in the CDP program, offers his services as an expert speaker, facilitator and coach on social media topics, and is creating a new career development tool “Career Card Sort” – but takes the greatest pride in being a dad and a loyal family man. You can find Chris on Twitter, LinkedIn, Skype, Facebook and at his new website/blog launching in January 2014 better-together.ca.

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Social Media and the Job Search: Ten Trends - Part 9

Technology has been a game-changer in the past 10 years, and you better believe it is transforming career development

by Chris Kulbaba

9. Twitter chats
Twitter chats happen when a group of people all tweet about the same topic using a specific hashtag (#) that allows it to be followed by Twitter users. The chats take place at a specific time and often happen on a regular basis. I like to follow different conversations in Twitter using Hootsuite. Specifically, learning LinkedIn can be much easier if you are on the Twitter chat #linkedinchat that is hosted by Viveka Von Rosen each Tuesday from 8:00 pm to 9:00 pm ET, or you can just follow the chat in your Hootsuite channel at any time convenient to you as the chat history is right at your fingertips. If you want to learn more, Hootsuite University can teach you all about using their tool, for free.

Chris Kulbaba is an Employment Counselor with the London Employment Help Centre in London, ON. Chris regularly delivers webinars for Conestoga College in the CDP program, offers his services as an expert speaker, facilitator and coach on social media topics, and is creating a new career development tool “Career Card Sort” – but takes the greatest pride in being a dad and a loyal family man. You can find Chris on Twitter, LinkedIn, Skype, Facebook and at his new website/blog launching in January 2014 better-together.ca.

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MINIMUM WAGE TO INCREASE OCTOBER 1, 2014

The Government of Saskatchewan will increase the province's minimum wage from $10 to $10.20 per hour effective October 1, 2014 and will soon introduce regulations to provide for regular indexing of the minimum wage each year.

Highlights of the new minimum wage regulation will include:

• Indexation formula will be based on the equal weighting of the percentage changes in the Consumer Price Index and Average Hourly Wage for the previous year.
• A change in the minimum wage will be announced on or before June 30 of each year, with that change coming in effect on October 1 of the same year.