• Canada to tighten employment insurance rules

  OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada announced tighter rules for payouts to the unemployed on Thursday, requiring jobless workers to be willing to accept jobs at lower pay or commute farther for work if they want to collect unemployment insurance. The Conservative government said the changes would help deal with the anomaly of high overall unemployment at a time when there are labor shortages in certain ...

• Government of Canada Helps People With Disabilities in the Winnipeg Area Gain Job Skills

  WINNIPEG, MANITOBA--(Marketwire - May 24, 2012) - The Government of Canada will help 27 people with disabilities gain the skills they need to get jobs in Winnipeg through support to Work and Social Opportunities Inc. Lawrence Toet, Member of Parliament for Elmwood-Transcona, made the announcement today on behalf of the Honourable Diane Finley, Minister of Human Resources and Skills Development.

• 'I feel like Canada's oldest backpacker'

  GENERATION EMIGRATION: I WAS 60 last week and my husband Seamus is almost 61, and at this stage of our lives, the notion of emigrating seems ridiculous. We should be coming out to Canada on our holidays, but instead we have left our home in Galway and our three children and six grandchildren to look for work abroad for the third time in our lives.

• Daryn Jones wants to shake up the yellow brick road on 'Over the Rainbow'

  TORONTO - Flying monkeys, auditioning dogs and an unlikely comedy duo, all in front of a live TV studio audience ? oh my!

• New EI rules worry seasonal workers in N.S.

  Some of the more than 40,000 Nova Scotians receiving employment insurance say new rules could be tough on those who are already having trouble finding work.

Canada In People Search for Nursing Students

During the past year the Board of Registered Nursing (BRN) has received numerous questions regarding the issue of background checks on registered nursing students prior to clinical placement. The Board has been asked to assist programs with meeting this major new requirement. The use of background checks on individuals working in clinical settings is one of the means agencies use to help protect their clients/patients. While obtaining background checks on employees is not new for clinical agencies, the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) has recently added to their Human Resources standards (HR.1.20) a section related to criminal background checks. The JCAHO standard requires agencies to include nursing students in criminal background checks when required by state law, regulation or hospital policy . (www.jcaho.com)

The BRN does not require prelicensure nursing programs to screen potential students for a history of convictions prior to acceptance into their program. The BRN only requires background checks on criminal convictions at the time of application for licensure. Furthermore, BRN staff reviews all applications with prior convictions on an individual case-by-case basis before issuing or denying licensure. The criteria used by the Board in evaluating an applicant’s present eligibility for licensure are found in the California Code of  Regulations. -- The BRN does not use non-government, private Canada In People Search , which are more comprehensive and may background check personal histories , associates. address history for 30 years, phone numbers, property ownership, lawsuits, marriage, divorce, criminal records check, sex offenders, terrorist watch, bankruptcy, tax liens, and more.