When meeting a recruiter, candidates have to answer all questions. Some of them can even seem ridiculous. The website Glassdoor has listed the ten most absurd questions. Here are some of them.
This was one of the promises of the Conservative Party in 2011. Income splitting for couples with children will be applicable beginning with the 2014 tax year. But this measure, covering only a few households, could also encourage more women to leave the workforce.
There are still differences between pay for women and men. In an equivalent role, women earn 11% less than their male colleagues in private enterprises with 200 people and over. Explanations.
According to several studies and the view of some researchers, reducing gender inequality in representation and wages can lead to improvement in business performance. More broadly, it enables better socio-economic development in societies where it has been harnessed. What about Canada?
The government of Quebec will soon be revising the Pay Equity Act. The next amend-ment will mean the end of the pay equity declaration for companies with 6 to 9 employ-ees.
Online courses, customized seminars, academic microprograms… Now companies have access to a broader range of solutions for training their employees. Here is an overview of recent trends.
Managing all employees in the same way can satisfy equal treatment policies in the workplace. Yet, that does nothing for employee’s well-being or performance. The solution? Adopting an individualized leadership rapport to contribute to organizational success and the retention of workers.
Two films that won at this year’s Oscars featured characters who have revolutionized their fields despite their disabilities: The Theory of Everything, which tells the life of physicist Stephen Hawking, who suffers from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, and The Imitation Game, the biopic of mathematician and cryptanalyst Alan Turing, believed to have suffered from Asperger's syndrome.
Despite the drop in the price of oil, the labour market appears to have held steady in February, according to the Statistics Canada Labour Force Survey. Here is what’s important from the last issue.
On January 30, 2015, the Supreme Court of Canada rendered a major decision on the constitutional freedom of association in the workplace. It has especially challenged a law adopted in 2008 in Saskatchewan which sought to restrict the right to strike of certain employees.
Aged 20 to 34 years old, Generation Y workers are often seen as different in their ap-proach to work. There are plenty of qualifiers to define then: flexible, social, technologi-cal... But is this generation all that different? A Canadian study by the Deloitte firm has just reshuffled the deck a bit.
Human resources managers are disconnected from their employees, according to a report published this month. It reveals that they have a much more optimistic vision of actions taken for employees than the employees do themselves.