The Value of an Employee Handbook – 5 Reasons Why You Should Have One
An Employee Handbook creates clear expectations, a communication and training tool, reduces legal risks and promotes trust among employees.
How to Develop Your Managers into Leaders
As businesses grow and evolve, there is often a shift from traditional management structures to more inclusive and collaborative leadership models.
Top 5 Workplace Wellness Tips
Workplace wellness is about organizations taking a proactive approach to ensuring the health and wellbeing of their workforce. By focusing on the wellness of employees, organizations can help prevent issues with mental and physical health, reducing stress levels and absenteeism and ultimately improving performance.
6 Tips to Increase Employee Retention
Employee retention is one of the most important components of running a successful practice. With branded terms like quiet quitting circulating the internet, employers need to step up their game to ensure the term does not turn into real quitting.
Will the BC Government declare National Truth and Reconciliation Day as a legal statutory holiday?
The survey clearly signals the B.C. government’s intent to add an 11th legal stat holiday for NTRD. There is broad support for this but many employers while supporting recognition of NTRD will be concerned about adding another statutory holiday with no compensating adjustment to the existing schedule of stats.
The Best Time of Year to Hire Employees
As an employer when is the best time (and worst time) of the year to hire employees? We break down 5 things to consider when searching for top talent.
Are Cost of Living Adjustments Mandatory?
B.C.’s inflation rate is the highest it’s been since 1983 at 8.1% making it increasingly difficult for people to meet their monthly expenses. As an employer you may be asking yourself how are my employees doing? Should I be giving them a Cost of Living increase?
Leading with Empathy – 4 Ways to Begin Today
We are living in a world where labour is in short supply, we are becoming more divided than united, our mental health is taking a toll, and we are wondering what normal even means. As a leader, looking to the future, you may be wondering how best to respond to these challenges. What leadership skills do you need to focus on?
B.C. NDP Government Reverses Course and Will Bring in “Card Check” Unionization
Written by Geoffrey Howard and Sebastian Chern Howard Employment Law In a dramatic reversal of policy and without consultation, the BC NDP has announced on April 6, 2022 that it will pass legislation that will allow unions to be “certified” and thus become the sole authorized representatives of an entire group of employees based only on showing 55%
How To Properly Structure A Signing Bonus
Employers therefore need to carefully consider how they structure any signing bonus and consider adding terms that require employees to repay the signing bonus in some situations.
