Amazon.com Inc., needing a more tech-savvy workforce, is offering to pay to retrain its employees and help them switch to more technical jobs at Amazon or elsewhere. The online shopping giant said Thursday that it plans to spend $700 million by 2025 to retrain 100,000 workers, or a third of its U.S. workforce. The initiative […]
The Canadian Women’s Foundation, AfterMeToo and the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network is receiving more than $2.7 million from the federal government to create an online tool that will educate employees who’ve experienced workplace harassment or violence about their legal rights and how to report their experiences. The project, Roadmap to Future Workplaces, aims to help […]
Sweden, Norway and Iceland offer the most family-friendly policies of all 41 Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development and European Union countries, according to a report from Unicef’s Innocenti Research Centre. The report ranked the countries on the duration of their paid maternity, paternity and parental leave. It also measured the share of children under […]
Being out at work, as a member of the LGBTQ2S+ community, can be a tricky thing. As an educator, expressing pride in one’s identity isn’t just a chance to set an example for students, but to make life easier, more authentic and ultimately better for staff as well, says Corey Johnson, a professor at the […]
Canadian chief financial officers are examining the true value of their employees. Brookfield Asset Management Inc. measured the value of its workforce as part of a project led by The Prince’s Accounting for Sustainability Project. The purpose, according to a press release, was to increase the effectiveness in how the company organizes, develops and deploys […]
Last year, the University of Toronto added breastfeeding-friendly spaces for female faculty, staff and students. While women are welcome to breastfeed anywhere on campus, the new spaces are in quieter areas close to amenities. The new spaces are the work of the university’s Family Care Office, a division of the human resources department, in collaboration […]
As Canadian employers focus on business growth over the next two years, they’re prioritizing spending on employees, including skills training (47 per cent) and satisfaction and well-being (42 per cent), according to a new global survey on the future of work by HSBC Bank. The report, which surveyed more than 2,500 companies in 14 countries […]
League Inc. is launching a new digital benefits platform in an effort to give plan members one place to access their health, lifestyle and benefits programs. The platform, called HBX, is aiming to reduce the number of systems employers need to use to manage their various employee programs. Integrating with more than 100 insurance carriers, health-care providers […]
The union representing about 8,000 Canadian border and intelligence officers and investigators is calling on the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat and Canadian Border Services Agency to provide its members with a so-called 25-and-out retirement option. The Public Service Alliance of Canada’s Customs and Immigration Union has been in negotiation with the two federal agencies since […]
Forty-three million Americans are currently acting as an unpaid caregiver for a family member, according to a report by the U.S.-based business research organization LIMRA. It also suggested half of these unpaid caregivers work full time outside the home, with the demands of taking care of a loved one impacting their career. Indeed, it found […]