Administration
Paydays, Payroll Records and Deductions
The Employment Standards Act sets out your obligations with respect to paying your employees and maintaining payroll records. One common area of confusion and dispute concerns an employer’s ability to make deductions from wages. To employees, payday is an important event, and it’s something you should get right – every time.
Is Cybersacking the Way of the Future?
Some time has passed since the story of the “Cybersacked” spa employee made the front page of Kelowna’s Okanagan newspaper. The employee featured was offended to have found out she was fired by reading a message sent by her employer to her Facebook inbox.
A Key Driver of Employee Engagement
Career development is consistently cited by employees as critical to their satisfaction with an organization, and a key reason why they may change jobs. In fact, Hay Group data on the predictors of employee retention indicate it is the most important aspect of a company’s reward program as far as talent retention is concerned. Yet it is an area where many employers do an incredibly poor job.
Dealing Effectively with Under-Performance
No matter how effective you are in the hiring process, there will inevitably be occasions when employee performance issues arise. One of the biggest mistakes employers make is waiting until performance-review time to deal with concerns.
The Human Rights Code Made Simple
Because the Human Rights Code (HRC) applies to most employers in BC workplaces, you should know your rights and responsibilities — as well as those of your employees.
Corporate Volunteering Leads to Engaged Employees
Many companies have employee volunteer programs, but for many companies in Europe, Canada and the US these programs are underfunded, underdeveloped and underutilized. This article is meant to offer a compelling reason why your business needs to invest (a bit more) in employee volunteering.
5 Keys to Employee Retention
It is a competitive recruitment market and projected to get even tougher. Therefore, not only do businesses have to attract the right employees, they also have to concentrate on keeping the ones they have. This article will present you with 5 keys to employee retention that go beyond your pay package.
Drunk Driving: Just Cause for Termination
Workplace intoxication is a serious issue that affects productivity and may threaten the health and safety of the workforce. When employees drive while intoxicated, they put not only their own safety at risk, but also the safety of all those with whom they share the road. Furthermore, when drunk driving is done on company time, such actions can expose employers to liability.
Developing Leaders
Leadership development is one of those principles you’ve heard and read about a thousand times. You know that strong leadership drives your company, and you’d like to build a stellar team from within. But where do you start?
Strikes, Lockouts, Picketing and Replacement Workers
When collective bargaining reaches an impasse, and certain other legal rules are complied with, a legal work stoppage may occur. Work stoppages are typically referred to as either strikes or lockouts, both of which are often accompanied by picketing. The result is the partial or total withdrawal of labour and the near-total ban on the use of replacement workers.