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By Occasional Contributors | 2 Minutes Read May 17, 2016

Separation anxiety: Prepare for employee exits

The recent death of Justice Antonin Scalia highlights the duality of employee exits. For exits like Justice Scalia’s, it is unlikely that within hours of death, friends and family ponder the vacuum and replacement challenges the employer will face. Exits like Justice Scalia’s may precipitate introspection by remaining employees - resolutions to focus on family and work-life balance; or a realization that regardless of the power or indispensability of a role, in the end it really is “just a job”, because, as far as we know, we leave it all behind.

Article by Occasional Contributors / Employee Relations, Employment Standards, Union Relations / departing employee, duality of employee exits, Separation anxiety, succession plan, termination, terminations, work-life balance

By Christina Catenacci, BA, LLB, LLM, PhD | 6 Minutes Read July 30, 2013

Six in ten workers around the world would telecommute full-time

Career advancement website HowDoIBecomeA.net recently featured an infographic on trends in telecommuting around the world. Apparently, one in five workers globally telecommutes frequently, and seven percent of workers work from home every day. Research shows that six in ten workers worldwide would telecommute full-time if their employer allowed it. Why do employers not allow it? In Canada, about 37 percent of workers say their employer needs them to be at their workplace...

Article by Christina Catenacci, BA, LLB, LLM, PhD / Employee Relations, Employment Standards, Payroll, Union Relations / career advancement, cost in finding replacements, drawbacks to telecommuting, flexibility of telecommuting, gender wage gap, infographic, need to retain workers in the workforce, Preventing extra stress on employees, telecommuting, telecommuting around the world, turnover, work-life balance, workers globally telecommute, workforce, working from home, workplace

By Marcia Scheffler | 4 Minutes Read March 5, 2013

Workplace flexiblity outside of Silicon Valley

The recently publicized news regarding the ban of telecommuting at Yahoo has ensued in a debate about the benefits of flexible work from home versus the requirement to come into work. However the first thought to cross my mind was that this flexible work arrangement only applies to a very small and privileged sector of employees. For example, working in healthcare, I am very aware of the fact that this debate doesn’t apply to nurses or personal support workers.

Article by Marcia Scheffler / Employee Relations, Employment Standards, Human Rights, Union Relations / canadian employment law, childcare obligations, compressed or shorter workweek, discrimination, duty to accommodate, employment law, family status, flexible scheduling, flexible work, flexible work arrangements, flexible work hours, healthcare, healthcare human resources, HR issues, human rights code, job sharing, part-time work experience, policies and procedures, pros and cons of working from home, shifts, telecommute, telecommuting, work-life balance, working from home, workplace flexibility

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