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Is the AODA standard for employment applicable to volunteers?

September 22, 2015 Marcia Scheffler Accessibility Standards, Employee Relations, Health and Safety, HR Policies and Procedures, Human Resources, Human Rights, Integrated Accessibility Regulation, Recruiting and Hiring, Standard for Employment, Training and Development

Volunteers are crucial to many not-for-profit and public organizations. All not-for-profits have volunteers – even if it is just at the Board of Director level. There is widespread awareness that the training standards for the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA) apply to both volunteers and staff in the organization. But what about the accessibility standard for employment? Is it applicable to volunteers?

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Three popular articles this week on HRinfodesk

September 17, 2015 Yosie Saint-Cyr, LL.B. Managing Editor Employee Relations, HR Policies and Procedures, Human Resources, Human Rights, Payroll, Pensions and Benefits, Recruiting and Hiring, Union Relations, Wages and Compensation

Three popular articles this week on HRinfodesk deal with 2016 projected salary increases and criminal background checks.

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Drive high-quality hires with candidate pipeline analytics

July 27, 2015 PeopleInsight Workforce Analytics Employee Relations, HR Analytics, HR Policies and Procedures, Human Resources, Recruiting and Hiring

Are you facing challenges to attract, qualify and hire high-quality candidates as quickly and efficiently as your business needs?

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Contract or gratuitous promise: the need for consideration

March 6, 2015 Rudner Law, Employment / HR Law & Mediation Employee Relations, Employment/Labour Standards, HR Policies and Procedures, Human Resources, Notice, Damages and Settlements, Payroll, Pensions and Benefits, Recruiting and Hiring, Wages and Compensation

Employment lawyers spend a lot of time assessing whether contracts of employment are enforceable or not. The first thing that I check, when I review a contract of employment, is the date. What I’m attempting to determine is whether the contract was signed before or after there was already a verbal agreement in place.

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Number of arrests in the NFL: one too many bad apples?

July 29, 2013 Clear Path Employer Services Employee Relations, Employment/Labour Standards, Health and Safety, HR Policies and Procedures, Human Resources, Human Rights, International HR Law, International Payroll, Payroll, Recruiting and Hiring, Wages and Compensation

If you’ve been following sports at all this month, you’ve likely heard about the number of high profile arrests involving members of the National Football League. This string of charges leads us to the question of how much responsibility, if any, an employer has for an employee’s behaviour outside of the workplace.

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