Tis the season for holiday parties and a reminders about the responsibilities employers have to ensure those holiday parties are safe for all employees. During this time of planning if you have a workforce that contains telecommuting, flex and virtual employees do not forget to consider them in your holiday plans.
Make sure you use payroll figures for the right tax year especially when dealing with liabilities accrued at year end and paid in 2016.
Attracting the attention of tech talent is challenging if only because of the volume of noise from the competition seeking to gain their attention. That is why understanding where or how these talented tech professionals look for work and where the competition is can be useful.
To help you consider if a contingent workforce is a useful solution for your organization we pose some useful questions and best practices to consider to use for workforce planning.
Marquette Price is a computer programmer who designs interactive learning
Ontario recently introduced Bill 132, the Sexual Violence and Harassment Action Plan Act 2015, Supporting Survivors and Challenging Sexual Violence and Harassment.
Some employers have taken this process a step further by introducing psychometric testing into the workplace. This involves using formal tests that assess the personality profiles and aptitudes of employees or potential employees.
While some may think that organizing a Christmas Party involves only social considerations, it is evident from the foregoing that party organizers must take into account several aspects connected to the employer’s legal obligations. By keeping those obligations in mind, your efforts to organize a successful and liability-free party are likely to bear fruit.
Make sure you use payroll figures for the right tax year especially when dealing with liabilities accrued at year end and paid in 2016.
Ten years ago, Ontario adopted a law to ensure full accessibility to employment for people with disabilities. Here’s a quick overview of the law and the key HR processes you must have in place by January 1, 2016 to comply.
The union claimed that a Tim Hortons in Fernie, BC, discriminated against temporary foreign workers from the Philippines because of their nationality.
With the holiday season in full swing, employers are in the midst of the annual balancing act between festive celebration and appropriate workplace conduct. As the saying goes, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Here are some tips for planning and hosting a successful and (hopefully) incident free workplace holiday party.
The list of workplace tasks and activities that machines are capable of continues to grow each year. This latest article identifies several key findings that demonstrate that in the near future automation will not necessarily eliminate most jobs but change the activities within them by redefining roles and processes, changing what people do and how they do it.
What medical information is an employer allowed to know about an employer before they entitled to a medical claim. In this article the employee said that she was unlawfully treated by the employee and asked to produce excessive documents before making a claim.