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By Marie-Yosie Saint-Cyr, LL.B. Managing Editor | < 1 Minutes Read September 20, 2012

Most-viewed articles this week on HRinfodesk

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...

Article by Marie-Yosie Saint-Cyr, LL.B. Managing Editor / Employee Relations, Employment Standards, Health and Safety / 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

By Adam Gorley | 3 Minutes Read January 24, 2011

Sleeping on the job: not just for slackers

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?

Article by Adam Gorley / Health and Safety / 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

By Marie-Yosie Saint-Cyr, LL.B. Managing Editor | 3 Minutes Read December 16, 2009

The importance of cross-training

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,...

Article by Marie-Yosie Saint-Cyr, LL.B. Managing Editor / Employee Relations / cross-training, employment law, Human Resources, training, training and development, workplace performance

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