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Why You Need A Written Employment Agreement

The most important reason to have written agreements in place is to provide certainty regarding your expectations and to govern how you will interact during the relationship, but they are also critical to establishing your respective obligations on termination of the relationship.

Progressive Discipline for Badmouthing the Company Online

QUESTION I work for the [name omitted]. One of our

Does Your New Employee Need a Buddy?

Providing a new employee with an official welcome greeting, orientation, tour and a slew of introductions on the first day it a typical way of onboarding new employees

What Matters When Measuring Employee Performance?

6 Steps to begin the process of building an outcome focussed workplace

One Question Before You Go: Employee Exit Interviews

Your employee has just announced he/she is leaving and the off-boarding process begins. When looking over the off-boarding process checklist there are often many tasks that need to be accomplished. One of those tasks, hovering near the bottom, is the often-interesting, sometimes informative, exit interview.

By |2015-06-12T00:00:00-07:00June 12, 2015|Articles, Performance Reviews, Termination|0 Comments

Spring Cleaning Your Employee Manuals

It is almost spring and time to do some spring

Multiple Methods For Building Employee Competencies

Your employees come into the organization with individual abilities, qualifications, characteristics, temperaments, skills and more but rarely, if ever, do they come with all the competencies they will ever need.

You’re Hired! Oops, Take That Back, You’re Fired!

In this case, the employee was fired before he ever started employment. Why?

Injury/Illness/Incident Investigation & Reporting Policy

As do all other jurisdictions, BC requires employers to investigate and report specific kinds of workplace incidents. Here’s a Model Policy designed to comply with BC rules, including the requirements contained in Bill 9 which took effect on May 14, 2015.

Listing Reasons for OK’ing Employee Absences = Privacy Violation

A newly implemented electronic scheduling program listed detailed information about approved leave of each employee in a work unit, including reasons for leave.

By |2015-06-07T00:00:00-07:00June 7, 2015|Articles, Leaves of Absence, Privacy|0 Comments

Get Started Competency Mapping In Your Organization

5-step process for organizational competency mapping assessment, identification and building

Not Letting Sales Rep Return to Pre-Leave Job Is Constructive Dismissal

A sales representative who sold to the mining industry wanted his old job back after returning from work after 35 weeks of temporary layoff.

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