Real Benefits to Hiring Ex-Convicts
In yesterday’s Advisor, we looked at some risks perceived by employers that consider hiring ex-convicts. Today, we’re going to be taking a look at some of the potential benefits.
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How to Develop High-Quality Learning Experiences for Your External Stakeholders (Part 2)
Continued from yesterday’s post, here are a few additional tactics you can adopt to develop high-quality learning content for your external stakeholders. Curate Content To remain a valued and chief learning resource to your external stakeholders, curate content from multiple sources that they’ll find useful, interesting, and informative. This way, when they want to learn […]
In executive compensation, one size doesn’t fit all
A solid executive compensation program both recruits great new leaders and keeps your present team intact, but be sure it matches your organization’s profile and stage of development. If, as is often said, the speed of the team is the speed of the leader, good executives can supercharge your company’s performance. But if your executive […]
Reducing Pension Costs in Canada During Hard Times
The recent decline in financial markets has caused Canadian pension plans to become significantly underfunded. For instance, in Québec close to 97 percent of all defined benefit pension plans are currently underfunded. As this continues, many employers may look for ways to reduce pension costs or at least offset increases of those costs. Such losses […]
DOL: Revenue Sharing Will Not Be Considered a Plan Asset
Retirement plans’ sponsors and other fiduciaries associated with them got some reassuring news in early July when the U.S. Department of Labor stated in an advisory opinion that certain “revenue-sharing” fee payments by plan sponsors to their recordkeepers and other third-party administrators do not constitute plan assets for ERISA purposes. This means that service providers […]
Canada’s Supreme Court Awards RBC Dominion $1.5 Million from Branch Manager Who Defected to Merrill Lynch
by Brian Smeenk On October 9, 2008, the Supreme Court of Canada released its decision in RBC Dominion Securities v. Merrill Lynch Canada. The court restored an award of approximately $1.5 million in damages against a branch manager who had coordinated the defection of almost all his branch’s sales group from RBC to Merrill Lynch. […]
Got ACA Questions? The DOL Has (Some) Answers
You probably have a few, or more than a few, questions about the Affordable Care Act (ACA)—who doesn’t?
Court sends supervisor to jail
By Antonio Di Domenico We know that Canadian courts are increasingly more willing to impose significant six- and seven-figure fines on employers convicted of criminal workplace negligence or occupational health and safety violations. Indeed, we reported on two recent examples—Vale Canada Limited and Metron Construction—where the companies were given record fines in these types of […]
Do Your Employees ‘Get It?’ Building Commitment in the Workforce
By BLR Founder and CEO Bob Brady BLR’s founder agrees that commitment is crucial for business success, but questions whether HR managers can be “commitment coaches” for upper management. In a recent column in Workforce Management, Gershon Mader and Josh Leibner, consultants with Quantum Performance, Inc., wrote about “commitment” (not the kind that women look […]
The Myths of Moving Up
There are several myths about career advancement.