Written from what we actually see on warehouse floors, production lines and order desks across Québec, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. No filler, no jargon — the numbers and the trade-offs, so you can make the call yourself.
Who employs the worker, who carries the CNESST and WCB coverage, what the markup pays for, how a request becomes a person on your floor, and the five things that go wrong when the brief is thin. The whole mechanism, start to finish.
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Build the number yourself: posting and screening hours, the training you don't get back, supervisor time, the productivity gap, rework and scrap, and what a vacancy costs per day. Then compare it to a markup — with the arithmetic shown.
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Six questions that settle it — how certain the volume is, how fast you need someone, whether the skill is teachable, what your admin capacity really is, how you'll judge fit, and what happens if it doesn't work out. Plus when agency is the wrong answer.
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Most warehouse quits happen in the first two weeks, and almost none of them are about pay. The seven real causes we see — commute, shift pattern, first-day handling, unclear rate, physical shock, supervisor churn, no path — and the fixes that cost nothing.
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A month-by-month map of when labour gets tight in Montréal, Laval, Québec City, Halifax and Moncton — harvest, construction season, cruise ships, student cycles, peak retail — and how many weeks ahead you need to book each one.
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What to bring, what to wear, who to ask for, how the first hour goes, and what to do if something's wrong. Nine things you should know before day one — and the four things that get you asked back.
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Who pays you, what changes your rate, what's deducted and why, how vacation pay works on short assignments, how timesheets get confirmed — and the six most common pay problems with the fix for each.
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The people placed fastest aren't applying to more jobs — they're easier to place. Being reachable, being specific about equipment, honest availability, solving the commute, and the certification that raises your rate.
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Who your employer is, why you should never pay to get a job, your entitlements on pay and vacation, your right to refuse unsafe work, what to do if you're injured — and who to contact in each province.
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