On March 10 BC announced significant changes to public health orders. It includes the repeal of the BC indoor mask order along with eased restrictions on long-term care visitors, faith gatherings and overnight camps for children and youth. The announcement…
Over the last decade, there’s been an increasing awareness of the impacts of bullying – from celebrity-endorsed anti-bullying campaigns to legislation addressing the prevention of bullying and harassment at work. While this heightened awareness is good news, it has also…
Everyone needs to blow off steam sometimes. You’ve been there before: frustration, annoyance, or anxiety builds up, until the only thing that helps is to get whatever is bothering you off your chest. But when it happens at work –…
It’s that time of the year again when we attempt to predict some of the key trends and challenges facing human resources professionals and organizations in 2022. For 2021 we predicted an increasing focus on employee mental health, diversity and…
This week Dr Bonnie Henry, BC’s Provincial Health Officer, advised employers to develop business contingency plans that account for as much as 1/3 of their workforce to be off sick in the coming weeks or even months. This announcement was…
It’s that time of the year again when workplaces around the country are actively engaged in answering a single question: How do we celebrate the holidays in a meaningful and safe way? Last year’s celebrations were largely done as online…
As vaccination mandates in Canadian workplaces become more prevalent for both federally and provincially regulated sectors in Canada, we thought it would be interesting to learn how other countries and jurisdictions are tackling the issue of vaccines in the workplace.…
If you live in BC, you’re among thousands of parents absorbing the news about the coming school year. Within the next couple of weeks, kids will be back in the classroom. All of our staff from K-12 and students in…
More and more workplaces are either mandated by public health orders or are taking it on themselves to create a workplace vaccination policy which attempts to address privacy, safety, and health considerations. While the public health mandates are clearly understood…
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…