Mining blogs about: employment

Appeal court restores sanity to Canadian drug use in mining

Written by Jack Caldwell on May 27th, 2008

The Alberta Court of Appeal recently overthrew a ruling by a lower court (the Queen’s Bench) that John Chiasson was the victim of discrimination when he was terminated by Kellogg Brown & Root - basically denied a job at Syncrude, for smoking cannabis.  
I have previously described the facts of this case and decried the silly ruling by [...]

Recession? What recession?

Written by The BarkerLetter on March 18th, 2008

March 17, 2008
Greetings investors.
Call me an old fuddy duddy, but I was taught to wait for two consecutive quarters of negative growth before raising the recession flag, We haven’t even had one.
Nor have unemployment levels come close to the peak reached during the last recession in 2001.
And hey, what’s with the bookies over in Chicago betting the farm on a [...]