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HR News of the Day |
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BC's new Bullying and Harassment legislation became effective on November 1, 2013. See WorkSafeBC's newly created Bullying and Harassment website for tools, policies and guidelines as to how to comply with this new legislation.
According to Payscale's Canadian Compensation Trends and Pay Practices survey, 65% of Canadian companies expected their financial performance to improve in 2013. The use of variable pay increases (a pay for performance method), increased by a whopping 300%, as companies come up with creative ways of keeping their wage growth in line while at the same time retaining and incenting their top performers.
From the same Payscale survey, the following jobs had the largest year over year increases in Canada over the past 2 years:
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Millwright - 4.1%
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Web Developer - 7.09%
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Accounts Receivable Clerk - 5.38%
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National/Strategic Accounts Manager - 5.08%
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Regional Sales Manager - 5.25%
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FREE Download - Guidelines for Effective Feedback
For many businesses, it's performance review season. Give yourself the gift of a constructive performance review discussion by downloading our Guidelines for Effective Feedback for free this month. Our tips and checklist will help take some of the guesswork out of how to provide feedback that sticks.
6 Must Have Coaching Skills for the Successful Manager
We are often asked to provide training on goal-setting, coaching and feedback and how to have an effective performance review discussion. We've distilled some of the key highlights of our popular coaching and feedback training into our latestblog, just in time for performance review season!
Reservist Leave; protected leave for Canada's part-time military
Did you know that most Canadian jurisdictions, with the exception of Nunavut and the Northwest Territories, provide employees that are Reservists (part-time Canadian military) with job-protected unpaid leaves of absence in order to attend military duties such as international and domestic deployments and annual training? If you have reservists on your staff, and don't yet have a Reservist Leave policy, check out our readily available policy in our Workplace Policies Toolkit; just a click away.
What We’ve Been Up To
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We are pleased to announce that we have donated $300.00 in honour of our clients to the Oakville Food Share and Georgetown Bread Basket food banks. Our small way of saying a BIG thank you for the past three years. |
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We welcome the following new clients!
Tim's Truck and Equipment Service Inc.
WellServe Health Care Management
MAD Elevator Fixtures |
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The Impact99 HR Summit was a definite thought-provoker in how
employers can reinvent the workplace for today's new work. The two
favourite quotes of the day:
#1 "It's 2013 and we're operating like it's 1952." Jody Thompson; Co-Founder of the Results-Only Work Environment (ROWE)
#2 "The experience you create for your employees is the one they will create for your customers." Dan Pontefract; author of "The Flat Army" and Head of Learning & Collaboration at TELUS |
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