The Alberta government says legislation to overhaul workplace rules could come as early as next week. Government House Leader Brian Mason says it’s “pretty likely” a bill will be tabled then. “It’s generally well known that there is some legislation to improve the rights of workers in Alberta that is coming to make sure that […]
An article in Benefits Canada‘s May issue explored the Australian system of long-service leave, in which employees can take three months of paid leave after working for the same employer for 10 years. Employees can also choose to take a payout instead of the time off. In Canada, of course, employees can’t expect extended paid leaves no matter how long they […]
Tools to measure employee productivity aren’t meeting organizations’ needs, according to a study by the Canadian Financial Executives Research Foundation. While many organizations track productivity by measuring vacation days (86 per cent) and attendance (71 per cent), just 10 per cent of senior financial executives say those tools are fully meeting their needs. The researchers suggest […]
While getting up to three months off after working somewhere for 10 years sounds like a great deal, the idea seems unlikely to become a common feature in Canadian workplaces, as it is in Australia. As Benefits Canada’s Sara Tatelman reports in this month’s issue, Australia’s generous system of additional paid time off for long-term […]
Lisa Danker has just a few months to go to reach her milestone. Once October hits, she’ll have been at her company — UrbanGrowth NSW in Sydney, Australia — for 10 years. And that makes her eligible for long-service leave. It provides three months of paid leave, or six months at half of her pay, […]
Millennials make up the largest cohort of the workforce, at about 37 per cent of Canadian employees. For information technology consulting company Capgemini, however, its millennial workforce is almost double that percentage. “We have a fairly significant population,” says chief executive officer Sanjay Tugnait, citing the 61 per cent of the company’s 190,000 employees around […]
While the days of handing out gold watches and lapel pins to recognize an employee’s years of service are largely outdated, recognition programs in Canadian workplaces still revolve primarily around formal milestones, rather than informal, day-to-day appreciation from managers and colleagues. But as technology and data play a growing role in many human resources and […]
The federal government will be testing whether hiding the names of job applicants would improve its hiring practices, in what it calls an effort to strengthen diversity and inclusion in the public service. The Public Service Commission of Canada project, unveiled Thursday at Toronto’s Ryerson University, will compare the results of traditional screening methods with […]
Indiana University has introduced six weeks of paid leave for all employees. The new program, which takes effect on July 1, 2017, will be available to both mothers and fathers whose child is born or adopted, who have been in non-temporary positions of 30 hours or more per week and have been continuously employed in […]
Earlier this week, Benefits Canada reported that Queen’s University is now giving stipends to its postdoctoral scholars to help with the cost of childcare. The university already offered similar benefits to faculty members and non-academic staff. Read: Queen’s University to offer childcare stipend to postdocs The perk is more common in the higher education sphere. Employees at the […]