December 13, 2011
An assessment of workers’ compensation boards, from small business owners’ perspectives, reveals that they are doing a poor job in meeting the needs of small business.
February 10, 2011
We’ve just released a new research report that challenges the effectiveness of minimum wage policy in Canada. CFIB’s report: Minimum Wage: Reframing the Debate reveals that minimum wage increases tend to hurt the very people they are supposed to help. Find out more about the positive alternatives that better address the concerns of low-income earners.
November 25, 2010
There is no free lunch, and no free pension either. Recent calls to boost CPP and QPP benefits, in reaction to concerns about the sustainability of retirement savings in Canada, while touting to save more people from the risk of pensionless retirement, substantially underestimate costs to the economy. Using macro-econometric modeling to simulate the effect of doubling CPP/QPP benefits, and the attendant increases in premiums, CFIB finds that 1.2 million person years of employment will be lost in
October 28, 2010
Building on research by the Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB) and others, this
report examines the context of productivity in Atlantic Canada and the perspective of the region’s small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). This provides a unique examination of productivity from the perspective of the Atlantic Canadian SME.
October 19, 2009
CFIB members have identified several advantages to operating a business in Atlantic Canada. They include the ability to balance work and family life, the region’s proximity to the U.S. market, and the perceived lower cost of living relative to other parts of Canada. Atlantic Canada also offers a highly skilled and educated workforce, with some of the lowest turnover and absenteeism rates in the country.
September 14, 2009
Canada’s small- and medium-sized businesses interact with the Employment Insurance (EI) system in a way that larger businesses do not, making their unique views of this system a critical component to any reform of the broader EI system. While SMEs support the core mandate of EI, there are serious concerns about the cost associated with the program, and the services it provides in helping Canadians develop skills that will quickly get them back to work.
May 28, 2009
This study looks at whether small businesses invest in training, how intensively they do it and how workplace training efforts change with the size of business.
December 10, 2008
Detailed analysis of 2006 Census findings on full-time earnings by sector and occupation show that government and public sector employees are paid roughly 8 to 17 per cent more than similarly employed individuals in the private sector.
May 7, 2008
Information from the 2006 Census released in March 2008 indicated that Canada’s job creation record was the best in the G7 during the first half of this decade. An 8.5 per cent increase in the number of paid employees between 2001 and 2006 is indeed a strong result.
