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Archives for November 2015

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Festive celebrations and the workplace

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.

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Cyber risk insurance: Driving the risk management process

Insurers and other insurance professionals have traditionally been well positioned to drive improvements in risk management processes. Cyber-security risk is a modern phenomenon which has arisen in the electronic information and internet age, and the insurance industry is demonstrating that it can play a key role both in educating and equipping public and private sector organisations to manage this emerging risk, and in providing insurance protection.

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A Canadians with Disabilities Act would be great wouldn’t it?

Even before the ratification of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, there was real thought being put into the potential development of a Canadians with Disabilities Act. It began with the structuring of the International Day of Persons with Disabilities and has found its permanence with other large scale developments such as the development of UN policy and focus on the inclusion of people with disabilities.

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