Keeping your Workforce Productive During Summer
As the beautiful outdoors can be very luring during the summer months, it it often hard for people to stay focused on work and remain productive.
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How to Find and Retain Seasonal Staff
Seasonal work is common across North America, as many industries such as tourism and construction are unable to operate year round due to the weather.
Finding qualified seasonal staff and retaining them year after year is not always easy! Use the tips below and you will not only find the right staff, but will retain them as well!
Developing Workplace Wellness Initiatives
Establishing a healthy, positive work environment not only benefits your employees, but it also positively impacts your company’s bottom line.
How to Manage Maternity Leave
Are you or one of your employees about to take maternity leave? According to the Vanier Institute, 90% of working women who become mothers will take leave from their job when they give birth or adopt a child.
10 Benefits of Hiring a Mature Worker
According to a recent poll conducted by HSBC, 15% of Canadians intend on working indefinitely. Whether that be due to the changing economy, more optimal health, or just really enjoying what they do, mature workers are becoming increasingly more common in the 21st century workforce. While many companies may be wary of hiring a candidate at a more progressed stage of their career, there are many benefits of adding a more mature worker to your team. Here are 10 of them:
Returning to Work After Children
Returning to work after children can be a very daunting experience. Regardless of why you have decided to rejoin the workforce, your absence can cause you to feel out of the loop, insecure about your skills, and overwhelmed.
Employer Tips: Making the Most of the Economic Downturn
The recent drop in oil prices has had a huge impact on the industry in Alberta. The resulting economic downturn has caused companies large and small to lay off employees, enforce hiring freezes, or shut their doors altogether in order to increase their working capital.
Building Your Talent Bank
Whether you are recruiting because you have a vacancy, or are simply being proactive and building your talent bank, you should leverage the most efficient methods to find the right people. Some recruitment goals are:
When is a Fixed-Term Contract really an Indefinite-Term Contract?
Fixed-term employment contracts can be a practical and effective management tool for employers. They are useful in many scenarios, including the completion of short term projects or the temporary replacement of a permanent employee away on leave. Unlike employees who are hired on indefinite-term contracts, fixed-term employees are not entitled to statutory or common law notice of termination following discharge at the end of the employment term (or what is more commonly referred to as severance).
5 Effective Ways to Motivate Your Employees
According to research done by Gallup in 2014, slightly less than a third of U.S. working adults surveyed said they felt engaged at their jobs. According to LearnVest’s Stephanie Taylor Christensen, that means that the other two thirds were “somewhere between not engaged and actively disengaged.” Millennials, in particular, are the most likely generation to feel a lack of opportunity to stand out at work.