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No age discrimination present – job applicant was simply outperformed in interviews

Friday, January 13th, 2012

I read a case recently that clearly illustrates why employers should ensure that interview questions are related to the actual job responsibilities required for a job, and to remember to make and keep for a reasonable period of time interview notes that include the reasons for hiring (and not hiring) candidates.

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Tags: age discrimination, conducting interviews, documentation, employment law, genuine belief, interview, job applicant, job applicants, job responsibilities, justifiable reasons, Ontario Human Rights Tribunal, outperformed, permanent contract posision, reference, selection process, teacher, testimony, tie questions to job, witness
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Misclassification of workers: contractors or consultants?

Thursday, January 5th, 2012

I have often written and spoken about misclassification of workers, specifically that many organizations agree to call workers “contractors” or “consultants” even though they are, in reality, employees. The bottom line is that our courts and government agencies, including the Canada Revenue Agency, will not be swayed by the terms used in a document or the manner in which parties describe their relationship. They will look at the reality of the situation, and…

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Tags: Canada Revenue Agency, consultants, contractor, contractors, employee or self-employed, employment contracts, employment law, employment relationship, independent contractors, Misclassification of workers
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What all employers can learn from Google

Friday, September 30th, 2011

Google has been rated the world’s most attractive employer in two categories, business and engineering, by Universum. The rankings were based on responses from 160,000 career seekers. So what can employers learn from Google to improve their own attractiveness?

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Tags: career seekers, education, engineering, financial rewards, gift matching program, Google, Googler, health and wellbeing, individually-tailored packages, learning and development, most attractive employer, personal and professional development, retention of employees, supporting families, time away from the office, top 50 attractive employers, top attractive employer in the world, top universities, Universum, work-life balance
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Assessment of human resources: An organization’s most valuable assets

Tuesday, September 20th, 2011

How does an organization identify the best person for the job when filling a position? Companies generally follow a defined process for recruiting, hiring and promoting. They have a job description and certain criterion they are looking for. Whatever the process may be, it needs to be robust and legally defensible. The best method for achieving this is to use a formal assessment centre.

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Tags: assessment centre, Assessment of human resources, effective hiring process, employment law, hiring and promoting, HR, International Congress on Assessment Centre Methods, job description, maximizing workforce competence, minimizing legal liability, productivity, recruiting, selection process
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Liberal promise of immigrant tax credit is a divisive issue

Friday, September 16th, 2011

Most Ontario residents are already aware of the recent controversy that has brought immigration to the forefront of the upcoming provincial election. It started with the Ontario Liberal pledge to offer tax credits of up to $10,000.00 to employers who hire new immigrants in Ontario who have been here for five years or less. Ontario Progressive Conservative leader Tim Hudak responded by calling it an “affirmative action” program.

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Tags: affirmative action, employment law, Foreign workers, immigrant tax credit, ontario, provincial election, temporary work permits
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Written agreements in the employment relationship are valuable

Thursday, August 25th, 2011

I have written in this blog and elsewhere, of the value in written employment contracts, written offers of employment, and written employment policies. Much like the break up of a marriage, the parties to the dissolution of the employment relationship often have widely divergent recollections of the understanding of the terms of the relationship when they were entered into. In particular,…

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Tags: constructive dismissal, employment contract, employment contracts, employment law, employment policies, employment relationship, hiring process, negligent misrepresentation, offers of employment, resignation, severance package, written agreements, wrongful dismissal
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Human resources goes mobile: Highlighting top HR apps

Wednesday, August 17th, 2011

When leaving home or the office, what are the must-have items you would never go without? Wallet? Got it. Keys? Yup. Your mobile recruiting application…? Today’s anytime-anywhere mobile access is changing the way we do business. With the right apps, recruiters can manage customer relations, access candidate data, and even review employee referals from their mobile devices. HR technology developers have jumped on the mobile bandwagon, and are working hard to bring new solutions for hiring, managing and tracking HR to the mobile market.

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Tags: hiring, HR Apps, HR software, HR technology, managing, managing talent, mobile devices, mobile HR tools, mobile market, tracking HR, valuable data, web applications
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High achievers = high anxieties in the workplace

Friday, August 12th, 2011

Is there an overachiever at your workplace? Do you have trouble understanding and working with them? High achievers, sometimes known as workaholics, have been found to be secretly plagued by fears and self-doubts and prone to resist change. Though it is important to be hard-working and have a drive to achieve in order to be successful, it can get out of control.

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Tags: burnout, employee relations, high achiever, high expectations, How to Manage Overachievers, HR, leadership, learning, management, overachiever, performance, work performance, workaholic
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National Occupational Classification, 2011

Thursday, August 11th, 2011

The structure of the National Occupational Classification (NOC) 2011 has changed and is replacing Statistics Canada’s National Occupational Classification for Statistics (NOC-S) 2006 and Human Resources and Skills Development Canada’s NOC 2006, eliminating the differences that have existed between these two classifications. The NOC is being adapted to reflect the significant structural changes in the Canadian labour market since 2001.

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Tags: HRSDC, Human Resources and Skills Development Canada, labour market, National Occupational Classification, NOC, Occupations, Statistics Canada
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Pre-hiring accommodation

Thursday, July 7th, 2011

As most of us are aware, the Human Rights Code prohibits discrimination in the context of employment, and applies both during the employment relationship and in the hiring process. Most of us would take it as a given that you cannot make hiring decisions based upon grounds such as race, religion, gender, or disability. However, it is not quite as widely understood that the duty to accommodate an individual applies even to those who are not yet employees.

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Tags: alcohol and drug testing, Disability, discrimination, discrimination based upon protected grounds in the hiring process, DM v. Toronto District School Board, duty to accommodate, duty to accommodate applicants, employment law, employment relationship, failed to accommodate, gender, hiring decisions, hiring process, human rights code, human rights legislation, learning disability, Ontario Human Rights Tribunal, pre-employment testing, race, religion
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Opportunities Ontario provides guidance on the requirement of recruitment efforts

Thursday, June 16th, 2011

The Ontario Bar Association Citizenship and Immigration Section recently met with representatives of Opportunities Ontario, the province’s Provincial Nominee Program (“PNP”). During this meeting, they provided insight into the level of recruitment activities that would be expected from an employer who files a PNP application on behalf of a prospective employee.

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Tags: Canadian citizens, Citizenship and Immigration, employment and training opportunities, foreign national, Foreign workers, Human Resources and Skills Development Canada, Labour Market Opinion, NAFTA, Ontario Bar Association, Opportunities Ontario, provincial nominee program, recruitment, Skilled Workers, training
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A closer look at the accessibility standard for employment under the AODA

Friday, June 10th, 2011

Now that the Integrated Accessibility Regulation under the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act is now law and will come into force on July 1, 2011, let’s take a closer look at the accessibility standard for employment.

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Tags: Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, accessibility needs due to disability, Accessibility standards, accommodation, career development, Career development and advancement, Disability, during employment, emergency response, employment standard, human rights code, job accommodations, job applicants, ontario, performance management, reassignment of employees, recruitment, redeployment, Return to work, selection process
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Performance is relative

Thursday, June 9th, 2011

How do we resolve this dilemma? Time to Fill does tell us something important, yet we cannot be sure whether a change to this number is due to our own efforts or the effects of the overall job market.

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Tags: Analytics, benchmark or a comparator, comparison group, HR, HR activities, HR Metric Service, HRIS, Hrmetricsservice, measurement, metrics, performance, recruitment, strategy, Time to Fill
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Women’s expectations in the workplace may play critical role in how they are treated at work

Friday, May 27th, 2011

Canadian women starting their careers still expect to earn considerably less than men, wait longer then men for promotions, and have lower salaries after five years of working, according to a soon-to-be-released study. This despite the fact that some believe we are reaching the point of equality in the workplace. Why is this happening? Why do women still have these expectations?

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Tags: career, career counsellors, discrimination, employment law, equal pay for equal work, equality for women, equality in the workplace, gap in actual earnings, gender gap, historical gender-role stereotyping, labour market, lower earnings, male-dominated fields, management, negotiation, Nice Girls Don’t Get the Corner Office 101, pay equity, salary, salary expectations, Unconscious Mistakes Women Make that Sabotage Their Careers, under-representation of women in male-dominated fields, Women’s expectations in the workplace, work-life balance
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Slaw: Manitoba introduces Canada’s first Adult Abuse Registry

Thursday, May 19th, 2011

On May 11, 2011, Manitoba proposed Canada’s first adult abuse registry as well as tough new offences and penalties to better protect adults with intellectual disabilities. The registry would make the names of those who abuse or neglect vulnerable adults under any Act available to employers for screening potential employees or volunteers. Similar registries already exist in the United States.

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Tags: Adult Abuse Registry, adults with intellectual disabilities, employment law, history of abuse, intellectual disabilities, manitoba, offences and penalties, screening potential employees or volunteers, vulnerable adults
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