What Should an Anti-Racism Policy Include?

In July 2020, the Vancouver Police Department reported that hate-related incidents are occurring in Vancouver at a higher than usual rate. As an HR...

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Duty to Accommodate… A Pandemic?

The COVID-19 pandemic has raised numerous legal issues. As society adjusts to a new normal, many employers are asking about their duty to accommodate...

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Blurred Lines: Privacy and Expectations in a Modern World

Healthy workers set boundaries between work and life, but as the lines between home and work become more blurred, that’s getting more difficult. It’s currently...

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Time to Reconsider Reporting on Human Capital

Formal approaches to reporting on human capital to the board and investors are not new. Significant work was done on this in the 1960s;...

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Fundamentals Of Hiring—Avoid Negligent Misrepresentations

Whether you are the GM of the Vancouver Canucks looking at who to draft or the owner of a 10 employee manufacturing plant looking...

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Changes to the Canada Labour Code Coming Into Effect, January, 2021

This past June, the Federal Government announced that starting January 1, 2021, new regulations will come into effect to protect employees in federally regulated...

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Is Our Future Workplace Contingent?

Leapfrogging technology, different expectations, evolving industries, automation and a rate of change that doesn’t look to be slowing down in our lifetime have all...

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Refusal of Unsafe Work: Lessons Learned from SARS

As British Columbia moves from Phase 2 into Phase 3 of its Restart Plan, employees will increasingly be asked to return to work and...

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