Payday is a Canadian

Television in Canada

Television in Canada officially began with the opening of the nation's first television stations in Montreal and Toronto in 1952. As with most media in Canada, the television industry, and the television programming available in that country, are strongly influenced by the American media, perhaps...

 talk show television series which aired on CBC Television

CBC Television

CBC Television is a Canadian television network owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the national public broadcaster.Although the CBC is supported by public funding, the television network supplements this funding with commercial advertising revenue, in contrast to CBC Radio which are...

 from 1973 to 1974.

Premise

This series concerned the relationship between unions and businesses, using a discussion format and evenly seeking points of view from both industry and labour. Topics from the first season included union presence in white-collar work

White-collar worker

The term white-collar worker refers to a person who performs professional, managerial, or administrative work, in contrast with a blue-collar worker, whose job requires manual labor...

, multi-national unions, pensions, strikebreaking

Strikebreaker

A strikebreaker is a person who works despite an ongoing strike. Strikebreakers are usually individuals who are not employed by the company prior to the trade union dispute, but rather hired prior to or during the strike to keep the organisation running...

 and women in the workforce. The second season topics featured bodies such as the Labour Peace Commission and the Canadian Labour Congress

Canadian Labour Congress

The Canadian Labour Congress, or CLC is a national trade union centre, the central labour body in English Canada to which most Canadian labour unions are affiliated.- Formation :...

. These newer episodes also discussed resource-based industries such as Albertan oil production, British Columbian forestry, North Atlantic fishing or Yukon mining, while some other episodes discussed arbitration, health and immigration.

Scheduling

The first season of this half-hour series was broadcast for eight episodes on Sundays at 2:00 p.m. (Eastern) from 22 July to 9 September 1973. Its second season aired 13 episodes Sundays at 1:00 p.m. from 29 September to 29 December 1974. Payday and Dollars and Sense

Dollars and Sense (TV series)

Dollars and Sense was a Canadian business affairs television series which aired on CBC Television from 1972 to 1975.-Premise:Gordon Jones hosted this Toronto-produced series concerned business topics including finance and labour.-Scheduling:...

were discontinued in favour of the new Moneymakers

Moneymakers

Moneymakers is a Canadian business television series which aired on CBC Television from 1975 to 1979.-Premise:...

series from October 1975 to cover such subject matter.