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Companies of all kinds should make HR compliance a top priority to help keep their business protected and risk-free. HR compliance means identifying government laws and regulations that apply to your organization and ensuring you meet your obligations.

Having comprehensive policies and procedures helps organizations achieve compliance and meet challenges. Aligning your company’s goals with an overall HR strategy promotes continual growth and long-term success.

Join us for this webinar as we discuss:

• What it means to comply with employment legislation;
• Core employment legislation that every business needs to consider;
• Setting a solid path with policies and programs; and
• The importance of training, what is mandatory, and what is necessary to achieve compliance.

This webinar is the perfect place to learn about the only Canadian language test that is used for citizenship, immigration and professional designation. This introductory session will help you become familiar with the test format, procedure, available study materials, and more!

In this presentation, you will learn:

• Advantages of the CELPIP Test
• Different uses of the CELPIP Test
• Scoring and format of the CELPIP
• Test-taking strategies and skills
• Test preparation materials

Join us for our first ever, in-person, full day
Diversity & Inclusion Conference!

We are thrilled to welcome you back in person for a full day of tremendous & thought provoking learning
+ networking opportunities you can't miss.

Limited seats available.
Register today!

One of today’s most important strategic processes for employers, regardless of size, is employee onboarding. For some companies, it’s about giving a new hire the tools needed to become a productive member of the team. For others, onboarding is the last stage of the recruitment process and the first step toward employee retention and integration with the company’s culture. 

The core feelings of new employees toward the organizations they choose to join often take shape in the first days and months on the job.

This session will look at the bottom-line to onboarding. And why this critical window of time is too important to leave to chance

By adopting the practices discussed, participants will take away:

• The ins and outs of a vibrant onboarding program with reliable metrics in place to measure its impact on your business
• The COVID-19 factor – There are now two types of onboarding experiences
• Which onboarding mistakes to avoid – from the loss of exceptionally talented people to the hefty price tag it will take to replace them.

Onboarding is clearly a pivotal experience both for employers and new employees.

Knowing how to properly negotiate will make a positive impact on your career!

Join us as we virtually explore four modules over 4 hours:
- The Negotiation Framework
- Practical applications
- Labour Negotiating
- Salary Negotiations

Experiences that live within the workday – empowering people to learn by doing – is a shift in thinking when it comes to improving employee mental health and safety. Where the traditional model has been more lecture-based, taking employees away from their work for several hours and lacks continuity, this evolved approach considers that people learn better through practice. Studies have shown that lecture-based training, or even training in the form of reading materials, is a passive learning style where only 5-10% of information is retained after twenty-four hours. On the opposite end, learning by doing sees retention jump up to 75% after twenty-four hours. This session, led by Dr. Ryan Todd, CEO of the mental health tech company headversity, talks about how SkillTech is offering employees utility and on the job, real-time training for mental health, and why employers need to know about it.

As provinces emerge from their COVID-19 shutdowns, it is a good time to revisit your HR compliance checklist. What are the day-to-day legal requirements that you should be considering, and what are the risks if you are not in compliance?  We will cover key topics, including Hours of Work, Leaves of Absence, Posters, Harassment & Violence, Termination of Employment and Vacation, among others and will provide an opportunity for you to ask questions. 

At the end of this webinar, you will have a clear understanding of your obligations regarding each of the topics that are covered.  You will learn:

• the relevant legislation
• the specific requirements that you must meet 
• the risks of non-compliance

Having lived through three full waves (!) of a pandemic, employers are now preparing for the long-term mental health implications of more than a year of heightened stress, isolation, depression, anxiety and substance abuse in their workforce. Because, let’s face it – we ALL faced mental health during the course of the pandemic. Now, employers are looking for ways to offer the vital mental health resources to their teams to build into their culture, avoiding the traps of the failed mental health initiatives of the past, and prepare for the fourth wave of mental health. This talk, led by Dr. Ryan Todd, CEO of the mental health tech company headversity, talks about how to successfully integrate the mental health message into your company safety initiatives, and demonstrates ways to revitalize the health and safety meeting.

Workplace mental health has undergone a paradigm shift in the past year. A study from TELUS revealed more than 75% of employees have said they have struggled at work due to anxiety caused by the pandemic, with 80% saying they would consider quitting their current position for a job that focuses more on employee mental health. Mental health is now a total workplace issue, and companies are looking for ways to build a strategy that permeates through the entire organization. This session examines the mental health brand shift, how employers are moving towards prevention, and the benefits an upstream, preventative strategy can bring organizations.

With many organizations returning to the physical workplace this Fall, and many employees having worked remotely for more than 17 months, employers are sensitive to the fact that psychological safety of employees will be in a more precarious position than ever before. Where creating a physically safe environment is mandatory for organizations, there’s an added focus with all that’s gone on during COVID-19 to build a psychologically safe culture. Dr. Ryan Todd, psychiatrist and CEO of headversity, goes through psychological safety in the workforce and how to build a safe culture on your team.

Presented by CPHRNB, the conference will be held virtually on May 3-4, 2022, and offer the perfect professional blend of networking, education, and technological solutions for issues facing HR professionals today and in the future. This conference will assist approx. 300 HR professionals, business leaders, executives, managers, service providers, students, and other HR stakeholders in transforming and repositioning to meet the needs of their organizations continuing into this decade. Stay tuned for more information on conference speakers, topics and registration details.