Shopify Inc. has been named the best place to work in Canada in 2017 by jobs and recruiting marketplace Glassdoor. Its annual list of the best places to work honours workplaces across Canada, the United States, Britain, France and Germany. In Canada, the list showcases employers with 1,000 or more employees, ranking their workplace on […]
Say you were going to tear down the old employer-employee relationship and rebuild it from scratch. You’d probably still offer money for labour, whether based on hours worked, services rendered, sales closed or contractual obligations fulfilled. That’s a given. But would you force your workers to wait two weeks to get paid, even when the […]
The old adage suggests you can’t teach an old dog new tricks, but a growing number of companies are discovering the hard way that they’ll have to learn some in order to attract and retain the next generation of employees. Tried-and-true recruitment tools and well-established career paths have little impact on millennials, commonly defined as […]
The buzz of the millennial generation has barely died down, but companies are already looking at those who will follow them. What comes after Generation Y? Generation Z, a legion of young workers who have never known a world without the Internet, smartphones, Facebook, Snapchat and Twitter, will soon be entering the workforce. The exact […]
Picture this. John, a 10-year employee at Company XYZ, just gave his two-week notice. His boss didn’t see it coming. What happened? John’s a star employee. How could his manager not know he wanted to leave? While a 2014 CareerBuilder survey showed 59% of workers were satisfied on the job, just over one-fifth (21%) said […]
Morneau Shepell has appointed Mel Bartlett and Lyne Ramacière to new roles.
Caregiving can have a negative impact on the workplace, costing the Canadian economy $5.5 billion in lost productivity, a study finds.
The 11 million Americans who receive Social Security disability face steep benefit cuts next year, the government said Wednesday, handing lawmakers a fiscal and political crisis in the middle of a presidential campaign.
Donald Trump is collecting a US$110,228 pension from the Screen Actors Guild, Bloomberg News reports.
The benefits industry has seen dramatic change in recent years, with wellness now front and centre in people’s minds. According to a survey by Ceridian, leading organizations have stated a wellness strategy to be one of the most critical factors in their future success.