Job Location: Toronto

Company Name: Toronto University

Duties and Responsibilities:

Deliver technical expertise, manage projects, configuration, testing, and customer support, recruitment, automated time collection, and talent management systems.

Qualifications:

Education

University degree and any related experience

Experience

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According to the recent data gathered by Statistics Canada, there is a slight increase in the women’s percentage on boards of directors in 2017.

The 2017’s dataset includes 31,266 directors from 10,108 corporations. 18.1 percent of the director seats were occupied by women compared to the 17.8 percent out of 30,486 directors in last 2016 data.

The percentages in which the boards comprised of entirely male individuals are 61.7 percent in 2016 and 61.2 percent in 2017. Boards with 1 female director in 2017 is 27.7 percent in 2017’s …

According to the annual competition run by Mediacorp Canada, the top employers of the National Capital Region include Statistics Canada, Shopify and NAV Canada.

The competition’s criteria involve the following:

physical workplace,

employee engagement and performance,

work atmosphere and communications,

health and family-friendly benefits,

financial benefits and compensation,

community involvement,

vacation and personal time off, and

training and skills …

A report according to Achievers, the company that focused on employee recognition and rewards, stated that 33 percent of the employees had plan to maintain their jobs this 2020 compared to the 47 percent last 2019.

Two-thirds of the surveyed employees are likely to head for the exit and the possible reason is employee disengagement. According to Natalie Baumgartner, the chief workforce scientist of Achievers, said that a large portion of the current workforce are already taking steps on towards the exit and it was a huge shift compared to what they found last year.

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Can an employer have a probationary employee terminated with no notice?

The answer to that depends on the company’s policy and the corporate laws it follows. The employer will have to ensure that such termination is being handled properly.

According to most of Canada’s employment standards, n employer can terminate the probationary employee within the statutory period. This statutory period comprises the first three months, where in the terminated employee is subjected without just cause, notice or pay.

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Last October 2018 in Canada, recreational use of cannabis was legalized. Unsurprisingly, the number of users increased and it has become a concern whether it will affect greatly in the workplace if the recreational use is practice the same way as smoking cigarettes.

It is already a fact how the use of marijuana affects the disposition of the user. However, for a business owner, having your employee under its influence during working periods, legalized it may be, will certainly cause worries about the performance and productivity. To avoid further damage, consider the …

One company in Ontario has a complicated situation. The previous owner was selling it and as soon as it was purchased, complications occurred gradually. The problems included dealing with the severance and termination pay of the previous employees. To do this kind of transaction, employment standards must be exercised. It is only appropriate and it prevents breaking corporate laws.

As the business owner, if you are looking to sell your company, you must consider, for the sake of your employees who help you in along the way, in doing the following:

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You have already encountered several advertisements from the radio, television, or internet advertisements regarding mattresses in a box. Since the year 2014, there have been many companies that started producing these types of Canadian memory foam mattresses. Since then, the popularity of mattresses in a box skyrocketed.

Rise in Popularity

At first glance, one might think that having a mattress in a box makes no sense. Most people opt to test out the mattress first or see what it looks like firsthand. They would ask a store crew to lay …

A government agency in British Columbia, the ITA or Industry Training Authority, will invest $7.5 million in order to help the 6 two-year training programs that are committed in providing employment to the indigenous communities.

The said programs will be addressing the chances of entering in construction and electrical workforce, with an estimate of 48 people receiving training that can lead to apprenticeships.

The CEO of ITA, Shelley Gray, said that the agency is committed to the cause through finding strong industry partners and …

It is a fact that most of us will not get their dream jobs at all. There will always be a constant struggle to survive for a living, and that is why people tend to settle on jobs even though they don’t like them.

According to the survey of 1,350 professionals done by CERIC, an organization devoted to the advancement in career counseling and career development, 72 percent of Canadian workers who sought for career counseling wished that they had selected a different career and 67 percent wished they had not succumbed to the pressure of choosing an unwanted career.

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