workplace performance

Most-viewed articles this week on HRinfodesk

September 20, 2012 Yosie Saint-Cyr, LL.B. Managing Editor Employee Relations, Employment/Labour Standards, Health and Safety, Human Resources

The three most viewed articles in this week HRinfodesk newsletter deals with assessing a probationary employee, dismissing an employee based on a serious misconduct and the upcoming workplace mental health standard…

Assessment, Dismissal, employment law, HRinfodesk, Job performance, misconduct, Notice of termination, performance review, probation, probationary, probationary employee, psychological health and safety, reasonable notice of termination, terminated without notice, termination, workplace mental health standard, workplace performance

Sleeping on the job: not just for slackers

January 24, 2011 Adam Gorley Health and Safety, Human Resources

If you’re like most nine-to-five workers, you probably feel a bit slow sometime after lunch. Maybe you reach for another cup of coffee or tea. Maybe you grab some fresh air, a piece of fruit or something sweet and sugary to get you through. But in many cases what you really want is to place your head on your desk and close your eyes for a few minutes. Of course you can’t though—what employer in its right mind would let you do that?

conduct and behaviour, employee relations, Employees sleeping on the job, employees taking naps, employment law, productivity, sleeping on the job, The Energy Project, valid reasons to worry about workers napping, workplace performance

The importance of cross-training

December 16, 2009 Yosie Saint-Cyr, LL.B. Managing Editor Human Resources, Training and Development

I’m sure you are wondering where this blog post is leading to and why I would think cross-training employees important. Well, the near-miss pandemic phase made me think,…

cross-training, employment law, Human Resources, training, training and development, workplace performance

Genetic discrimination in the workplace

November 24, 2009 Yosie Saint-Cyr, LL.B. Managing Editor Human Resources, Human Rights

I first wrote about genetic discrimination in the workplace in August of 2004. At that time, I compared it to the movie Gattaca, in which a man tries to hide his “imperfect” genetic makeup so that he can enjoy a way of life and secure a job reserved for people without “flawed” genes. Although Gattaca is science fiction, the movie’s plot is not that remote from present-day reality.

anti-discrimination law, discrimination, employment discrimination cases, employment law, genetic data, Genetic discrimination, genetic makeup, genetic predispositions, genetic testing, genomics, human DNA, Human Genome Project, human rights, The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act, work environment, workplace performance