{"id":38672,"date":"2015-01-16T12:55:53","date_gmt":"2015-01-16T04:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=38672"},"modified":"2015-01-16T12:55:53","modified_gmt":"2015-01-16T04:55:53","slug":"target-in-checkout-lane-canadians-left-with-pink-slips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/01\/16\/target-in-checkout-lane-canadians-left-with-pink-slips\/","title":{"rendered":"Target in checkout lane, Canadians left with pink slips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/target.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/target-300x210.jpg\" alt=\"target\" width=\"300\" height=\"210\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-38673\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/target-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/target.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>OTTAWA \u2013 New Democrats aren\u2019t sold on the idea of over 17,000 Canadians losing their jobs, and are calling on the Conservatives to ensure Target deals fairly with employees impacted by the closures.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Target takeover of Zellers, which the Conservatives signed off on, is turning out to be a rip-off that is leaving Canadians out of work,\u201d said NDP Employment Critic Jinny Sims (Newton\u2014North Delta) in a statement to media. \u201cWe need better protection for employee benefits and pensions in the event of bankruptcy. Workers shouldn\u2019t lose out to lawyer fees and other creditors.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Target announcement comes two years after the Conservatives signed off on the takeover. In all, 133 stores across Canada will close and over 17,000 Canadians will be out of a job.<br \/>\n\u201cOur economy is bleeding jobs, and the Conservatives keep pushing responsibility off to others,\u201d said Sims. \u201cIt\u2019s time for a government that takes responsibility and fights for Canadian jobs \u2013 and makes sure people receive adequate support if they do become unemployed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When it comes to approving foreign takeovers, Conservatives continue to be off-target and are failing to extract meaningful commitments to protect Canadian jobs and investment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OTTAWA \u2013 New Democrats aren\u2019t sold on the idea of over 17,000 Canadians losing their jobs, and are calling on &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":38673,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1481],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-comm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}