Top HR Shows and Movies
As HR professionals we love HR. We love it so much that we often watch a movie or a show just to pick out the HR themes and see how the world of fiction deals with them. Whether you like…
Making the Move From COVID-19 to Communicable Diseases Prevention
There have been several comments made in various zoom conversations over the last month about how great it has been to have experienced fewer colds and flus over the course of the pandemic. In our collective efforts to keep COVID-19…
Reasons to hire an immigrant as your new employee
Around the world Canada is known for its multiculturalism. With that, thousands of competent skilled workers make their way to our country every year only to find that the opportunities that are available to them are often limited because they…
Returning to What Exactly?
As provinces across the country prepare for the grand “restart”, many are considering how to return employees to the workplace. Of course, some workplaces have had employees onsite every day but even those will have lessened the numbers coming in…
Tackling vaccine hesitancy in the workplace
A common question we get asked these days is ‘Can I require my employees to be vaccinated?’ and according to legal experts the answer to this question is ‘probably not’, but the law remains unclear, and governments have yet to…
What a year of WFH has taught us
After navigating the “work from home” reality for more than a year now, you would think that employees would be chomping at the bit to return to the days of being together at the office, seeing colleagues, chatting at the…
New regulations concerning harassment and violence in the workplace
On January 1, 2021 new regulations concerning harassment and violence in the workplace came into effect as part of the Canada Labour Code. These regulations primarily impact employees who are in the federally regulated sector and may also impact any…
How to Ace the Virtual Interview
The interview: one fateful hour for a candidate to convince an interviewer to hire them and for an interviewer to determine if a candidate has what they’re looking for. There is a lot riding on that one conversation! No matter…
6 Reasons Why Training is Worth Every Penny
Building a solid team takes more than just good hiring practices, it also involves investing in professional development or something many of us simply call “pro-d”. And of all the things that contribute to the business bottom line, nothing fits…
When to investigate
A common question we receive from employers centres around the duty to investigate. Not unlike the duty to inquire, the employer’s duty to investigate a workplace complaint is spelled out in many provinces by their respective health and safety legislation and through human rights tribunals.