Canadian Employers Ready for Increases in Medical Leaves

Due to Canada’s aging workforce and greater awareness surrounding mental health, Canadian employers are expecting an increase in employee medical leaves. A recent Conference...

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Investing In People Key to Growth: Canada Lags in Non-formal Learning

By Christian Codrington, CHRP The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development broadly defines non-formal education as an “organized and sustained educational activity” that can “take...

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Labour Demand and Supply in Canada: The Big Picture?

By Jock Finlayson Concerns over skilled and more general labour shortages continue to be voiced by employer organizations across the country. The Canadian Federation of...

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Women in Leadership: Beyond Equality to Business Advantage

By Donna Howes, CHRP “Why are we still talking about this?” Great question. The answer is because it still matters. In fact, it matters more now...

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Best Practices: Smoking Cessation Programs

By Adam Gorley Workers who smoke tobacco can have a significant negative impact on a business' bottom line, but workplace policies and programs can...

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Human Capital Risk

By David Creelman Human capital risk is a weighty subject that is not well understood by most HR professionals—or risk professionals for that matter. The...

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Assessing Employee Performance

By Karla Thorpe Performance appraisals can be stressful and are often dreaded by both the manager that needs to deliver the appraisal and the employee...

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Hiring is Back: Go Fish

By Ian J. Cook, CHRP With unemployment in BC still running above eight per cent many organizations believe that there are plenty of fish in...

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