This subscription combo is the most comprehensive and up-to-date resource for legal professionals who advise organizations operating in a unionized environment.

HR Assist – Labour Relations provides current regulations and legislation covering labour relations for all jurisdictions in Canada. Also includes expert commentary that clarifies the laws affecting your organization, case annotations, and practice tips.

HR Assist – Labour Law Cases is an all-electronic service giving you the key decisions of labour relations boards, human rights tribunals and courts from across Canada from 1944 to the present, including full-text, headnotes, and digests. Topics covered include employment standards, labour relations, employment insurance, human rights, and pay equity.

Topics covered:

• Labour jurisdictions
• Unfair labour practices
• Certification
• Decertification
• Collective bargaining
• Collective agreements
• Strikes and lockouts
• Successor rights
• Arbitration
• Labour relations boards
• Apprenticeship legislation
• Consumer price index
• Labour statistics
• Court cases

Includes bi-weekly newsletter, Labour Notes.

DVD updated monthly.

Related Products

• HR Assist – Employment Standards and Labour Law Cases
• HR Assist – Employment Standards and Labour Relations
• Canadian Labour Law Reporter

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Another HR combo, giving you excellent value and the ultimate in comprehensive information on employment standards and labour law cases in Canada.

HR Assist – Employment Standards covers all relevant legislation concerning employment standards, human rights, pay and employment equity, and employment insurance in Canada. Also includes commentary, case annotations, and practice tips.

HR Assist – Labour Law Cases is an all-electronic service giving you the key decisions of labour relations boards, human rights tribunals and courts from across Canada from 1944 to the present, including full-text, headnotes, and digests. Topics covered include employment standards, labour relations, employment insurance, human rights, and pay equity.

Topics covered:

• Minimum age
• Personnel records
• Minimum wage/overtime
• Hours of work
• Payment of wages
• Statutory holidays
• Vacations
• Leaves of absence
• Termination
• Human rights
• Equal pay/employment equity
• Employment insurance
• Privacy in the workplace
• Workers' compensation
• Immigration
• Labour jurisdictions
• Consumer price index
• Labour statistics
• Court cases

Includes bi-weekly newsletter, Labour Notes.

DVD updated monthly.

Related Products

• HR Assist – Labour Relations and Labour Law Cases
• HR Assist – Employment Standards and Labour Relations
• Canadian Labour Law Reporter

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Staying up-to-date on the most recent cases, laws, and other current issues in the areas of employment, equality, and human rights is essential to keep you or your company from becoming entangled in costly employment-related disputes. Focus on Canadian Employment and Equality Rights newsletter helps employers and HR practitioners stay compliant and avoid such conflicts. It provides reviews and analysis from various experts on the most topical issues in the areas of employment, equality, and human rights. Practical features such as case notes, legislative updates, Question and Answer, and Did You Know? offer valuable insights on a wide range of topics, such as workplace diversity and accommodation, employment agreements, absenteeism, sexual harassment, termination, constructive dismissal, drug and alcohol testing, privacy rights, and pay equity, to name a few.

Features include:

• Lead Article – Expert analysis and valuable commentary on topical issues 
• Question & Answer – Relevant compliance facts that employers need to know 
• Case Notes – Expert summary and analysis of actual workplace situations from recent court, board, and tribunal decisions, with insightful practical application information
• Quotable – A thought-provoking excerpt from a case featured in the issue
• Legislative Alert – Comprehensive updates on recent changes to relevant laws
• Initiatives & Events– Significant government initiatives, upcoming seminars and conferences on employment and human rights issues, and helpful government publications
• Did You Know? – Useful tips, information, and pointers to online tools available to help employers

Benefits include: 

• Encourages you, the employer, to be proactive rather than reactive in the workplace and helps to keep you out of potentially costly litigation. For example, you're provided with professional practical information from employment experts to help avoid and prevent discrimination in the workplace, inadequate accommodation, wrongful dismissal, and other employment-related problems.

Updated monthly.

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Cross-Border Relocation Law is an authoritative guide to employment relocation issues on both sides of the Canada-U.S. border. It provides comprehensive coverage of immigration, customs, tax and employment issues for Canadian employees relocating to the U.S. and U.S. employees relocating to Canada. Recent changes to Canadian immigration law brought about by Bill C-11 are included.

Written by seven Canadian and U.S. experts, it will be of keen interest to legal, human resources, payroll and tax professionals who need to be aware of the myriad compliance issues surrounding cross-border relocation.

Topics covered:

• U.S. immigration law for business visitors, trade NAFTA professionals, intra-company transfers and treaty traders/investors
• Applying for a Green Card (family and employment based)
• Canada's new Immigration and Refugee Protection Act
• Canadian immigration law for temporary residents, including work permits and HRDC confirmation
• Applying for permanent residence in Canada (skilled worker, business immigration and family class)
• U.S. income taxation of non-U.S. and U.S. persons
• U.S. employment and transfer taxes
• Canadian tax issues for employees transferring from the U.S. to Canada
• Canadian tax issues for employees transferring to Canada from the U.S.
• Cross-border tax implications of pension and retirement plans
• U.S. customs law on personal importations, including restrictions and exemptions
• Canadian customs law, including duty and sales tax relief and exemptions
• Benefits of NAFTA for cross-border relocations

About the Authors
Lorraine Allard (McCarthy Tétrault, Toronto) is a partner in the McCarthy Tétrault Tax Law Section.

John Boscariol (McCarthy Tétrault, Toronto) is recognized in the 2000/2001 LEXPERT^® Directory of leading lawyers in the area of international trade matters.

Alan S. Diner (Bennett Jones, Toronto) practices federal regulatory law in Toronto, with a focus on immigration, competition and trade law.

James T. Ritzel (Hodgson Russ, Albany, NY) practices federal tax law, with particular emphasis on U.S. cross-border tax planning and tax controversy matters.

Kenneth Weigel (Alston + Bird, Washington, DC) concentrates on international trade and customs laws affecting the importation and exportation of merchandise involving the United States and other countries.

Andrew Wilson (Serotte Reich & Wilson, Buffalo, NY) specializes in U.S. immigration law.

John Yuan (McCarthy T

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Canadian Pensions and Retirement Income Planning covers all types of retirement income plans including defined benefit, defined contribution, RRSPs, and deferred profit sharing plans. It is ideal for pension plan sponsors, administrators, accountants, tax advisers, human resource professionals, actuaries, and pension consultants, as well as students and others interested in better understanding Canada’s tax rules for retirement income programs.

What's new in this edition?

This edition provides a comprehensive look at Canada’s tax rules for retirement income programs including:

• detailed analysis of all registration rules for registered pension plans and deferred profit sharing plans
• the rules for determining the calculation of pension adjustments, past service pension adjustments, and pension adjustment reversals
• new and updated numerical examples for PAs, PSPAs, and PAR calculations
• expanded and updated information on Registered Plan Directorate policies based on the most recent interpretation and changes
• tax rules around phased retirement programs
• updated information on defined contribution programs, rules and employer strategies
• updated background material on minimum pension standards, actuarial valuations, and accounting standards to provide context to the tax rules
• glossary of updated forms and filing requirements
• charts of relevant and commonly used reference data including CPP/QPP/YMPE, average wage, CPI, interest rates and relevant Income Tax Act (Canada) limits
• cross-referencing of tax rules to relevant sections of Income Tax Act (Canada)

Author: 

Towers Watson, a leading global professional services company that helps organizations improve performance through effective people, risk, and financial management. With 14,000 associates around the world, Towers Watson offers solutions in the areas of employee benefits, talent management, rewards, and risk and capital management.

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See below for recent changes to employment and labour law.

For 25 years now, the Canadian Master Labour Guide has made it easier for our customers to stay on top of changes in federal and provincial employment and labour law.

Employers and advisors trust the Canadian Master Labour Guide to be their definitive source for employment and labour law, including information on

• Key changes in statutory requirements
• Critical court rulings
• Employment Standards
• Human Rights, Equal Pay/Pay Equity, and Employment Equity
• Occupational Health and Safety
• Employment Insurance
• Oganized Labour
• Collective Bargaining

Here is a sample of some recent changes to employment and labour law included in this new edition:

• Major changes in Employment Insurance, including:
  • additional benefit weeks for all claimants;
  • further additional benefits for long-tenured workers;
  • EI benefit scheme for the self-employed;
  • freezing of premium rates for 2010;
  • changes to premium reduction plan reapplication;
  • Reservist leave added in Alberta and the Yukon.
• Overhaul of employment standards in Prince Edward Island.
• Protection for foreign caregivers in Ontario.
• New "public emergency" leave and new mediation procedures in Nova Scotia.
• New minimum wage increases in New Brunswick.
• Supreme Court of Canada decisions on dismissals in the midst of business closings.

In addition, the following changes, highlighted in the 24th edition as upcoming, will be incorporated into the 25th edition:

• New protections in Ontario for employees from temporary work agencies.
• Human rights changes in Alberta regarding sexual orientation and the complaint process.
• New Pay Equity Act in New Brunswick.
• Notable changes to the Yukon human rights complaint process.

And remember, we don't just provide information – we provide key commentaries to help you quickly understand what the changes mean so you can respond appropriately.

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This is the first of several combos we've created for HR professionals. By combining Canadian Labour Relations and Employment Topics and HR Assist – Labour Relations, you get all the resources you need plus you get great value. With these two tools at your fingertips, you'll have both a comprehensive source of legal information and a powerful strategic resource to help you deal more effectively in a unionized environment.

Topics covered:

• Unfair labour practices
• Certification
• Decertification
• Collective bargaining
• Collective agreements
• Strikes and lockouts
• Successor Rights
• Arbitration
• Labour Relations Boards
• Collective Bargaining Calendar
• Productivity indexes
• Consumer Price Indexes
• Wage and salary rates
• Weekend and shift premiums
• Fringe benefits
• Insurance and benefit plans
• Sick leave
• Paid holidays and vacations
• Unemployment and earnings rates
• And more

Includes bi-weekly newsletters, Labour Notes and Canadian Labour Relations and Employment Topics.

DVD updated monthly.

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The content of Canadian Labour Relations and Employment Topics newsletter ranges from topical, emerging issues to labour relations data. It gives you the information you need for strategic and effective HR management, in both union and non-union environments.

Contributors include senior human resources practitioners, mediators/arbitrators, consultants, academics, and employment and labour lawyers. You'll benefit from the trend-spotting articles covering all the fields of the HR function.

One monthly feature includes articles from U.S. experts providing an American perspective to the labour/HR scene. Practice tips, wage/benefits administration data, collective agreement summaries, quarterly wage settlement data, and following the progress of important labour legislation will help busy practitioners remain informed and current.

Included free with the purchase of Canadian Labour Relations and Employment Topics.

Updated monthly. Available to be e-mailed in PDF format only.

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• Canadian Labour Relations and Employment Topics with HR Assist – Labour Relations – COMBO

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Whether you're unionized or not, Canadian Labour Relations and Employment Topics is an excellent tool for increasing your knowledge of labour relations planning and practice in activities like contract negotiations, handling grievances, and dealing with other daily workplace problems and issues. Each month, you'll receive topical, practical information on developments in labour relations and human resources management. Includes graphs and tables of key economic and labour statistics, including consumer price index figures for Canada, regional cities, and the provinces, as well as monthly unemployment rates and weekly earnings figures.

Employers and unions can plan for negotiations or policy changes with Canadian Labour Relations and Employment Topics in-depth feature articles, regular newsletter columns, including one or more collective agreement summaries with each report, overviews of trends in benefits, bargaining and the economy, statistical data on major collective agreement provisions, and collective bargaining calendar. Arbitration abstracts provide summaries of recent significant arbitral decisions from across the country.

With the launch of the Internet platform, the updates to your research library are delivered immediately from the editor's desktop to you.

Topics covered:

• Arbitration
• Negotiations
• Collective agreement provisions
• Paid holidays and vacations
• Collective bargaining calendar
• Sick leave
• Consumer price indexes
• Unemployment and earnings rates
• Feature article
• Wage settlements
• Fringe benefits
• Weekend and shift premiums
• Insurance and benefit plans

Includes monthly newsletter, Canadian Labour Relations and Employment Topics.

Loose leaf and DVD updated monthly.

Related Products

• Canadian Labour Relations and Employment Topics with HR Assist – Labour Relations – COMBO

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One Stop Shopping for Employment and Labour Law Information

Legislation
Canadian Labour Law Reporter provides coverage of federal, provincial, and territorial laws on employment standards, human rights, pay and employment equity, employment insurance, and collective bargaining. This comprehensive research tool gives you all the relevant labour legislation across Canada.

Commentary
In addition to commentary on key employment cases and practice tips, the Canadian Labour Law Reporter also has case annotations at the end of each commentary section so you have more case law summary information at your fingertips.

Case Law
The Canadian Labour Law Reporter has full-text court case law and decisions from boards, tribunals, commissions, etc. all across Canada, going back to the 1940's. Our cases follow the same, clear style and are always easy to follow. All cases in the employment and labour areas are analysed by our experts and the most significant are published.

Labour Notes Newsletter
If it's important for you to be aware of current events and issues in Canadian employment and labour law, you'll rely on this newsletter. Published bi-weekly, it will keep you abreast of legislative developments in employment, human rights, labour, pay equity and employment insurance law across Canada. It provides you with digests of ground-breaking cases that affect how you deal with employees, and includes vital economic statistics, and more. Feature articles give you practical insights into trends and emerging issues in these dynamic fields to help you keep yourself current and protect your company's interests and its employees.

News Trackers
There are TWO NewsTrackers with this product, Employment Standards (includes employment standards, employment insurance, and human rights and equity news) and Canadian Labour Law Cases. New bills, cases, and related press releases are posted overnight and our searchable database is updated daily. Upon your request, the NewsTracker feature will notify you by email of breaking news stories as they happen throughout the day. NewsTracker provides a 10-day summary and a 60-day archive of past news items.

What's New
Each section includes a "What's New" feature. It is updated whenever anything is added by one of our experts to our commentary, legislation, or cases, or when a new issue of the news

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HR Assist – Labour Law Cases is an all-electronic service giving you the key decisions of labour relations boards, human rights tribunals and courts from across Canada from 1944 to the present, including full text, headnotes, and digests.

Topics covered:

• Employment standards
• Labour relations
• Employment insurance
• Human rights
• Pay equity

Features include:

• Canadian Labour Law Cases (Archival 1944 to current year) – All cases reported in previous years, organized by year and topic
• Canadian Labour Law Cases (Current year) – All cases reported for the current year organized by topic

Includes bi-weekly newsletter, Labour Notes.

Related Products

• HR Assist – Labour Relations
• HR Assist – Employment Standards

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An authoritative source for federal government organizations, Crown corporations, and industrial assistance programs, Canadian Government Programs and Services newsletter contains information from various government departments, including a key media contact and phone numbers.

Included free with the purchase of Canadian Government Programs and Services.

Updated bi-monthly. Available to be e-mailed in PDF format only.

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Do you need information on the federal government? Chances are you'll find everything you need in this authoritative guide to federal government organizations, Crown corporations, and industrial assistance programs. It provides key information on all government departments: organization structure, chief officers and phone numbers, jurisdictions, responsibilities, budgets, and much more, all organized in a topical index.

Features include:

• Organization of the federal government programs and services
• Crown corporations
• Commissions, boards, and councils
• Government relations
• Members of the Senate
• Members of the House of Commons
• Parliamentary and Senate Committees
• Standing, Special, and Joint Committees
• Head and regional offices
• Government assistance programs
• Lists of chief administrative officers (office held, name, telephone number)
• Departmental Organization charts
• Lists of Acts administered by the department agencies (Crown corporation, boards, etc.), reporting to Parliament through the department

Includes bi-monthly newsletter, Canadian Government Programs and Services.

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Canadian Employment Safety and Health Guide newsletter covers health, safety, and related legal issues affecting all workplaces in Canada, including offices, offsite locations, and mobile workstations. It monitors recent trends and discoveries in the health field and explains their legal implications from both an employer's and employee's perspective. It includes articles and discussions on emerging health and safety developments and summaries of recent court judgements.

Canadian Employment Safety and Health Guide newsletter also includes information on legislative changes throughout Canada. It informs readers of new case law and reminds of them impending compliance deadlines, new penalties, and fines for contravening the law.

Included free with the purchase of Canadian Employment Safety & Health Guide.

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If you work in the employment and safety area, this should be the only reference resource you'll need. It covers federal, provincial, and territorial laws and regulations and gives you analysis of a broad range of topics (see below). You'll also have commentary on new developments and emerging trends in every Canadian jurisdiction plus summaries of decisions from the courts, Workers' Compensation Tribunals and Labour Relations Boards. In addition, it monitors trends in occupational health and looks at their legal implications.

Includes monthly newsletter, Canadian Employment Safety and Health Guide.

With the launch of the new Internet platform, the updates to your research library are delivered immediately from the editors' desktop to you. The CD and looseleaf subscriptions are updated monthly.

Topics covered:

• Employers' duties and rights
• Workers' duties and rights
• Occupational health and safety
• Workers' compensation
• Toxic substances/physical agents
• Administration/inspection/enforcement
• Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System (WHMIS)
• Health and Safety Committees

Benefits:

• Helps you to comply with the law and assists you in developing plans and strategies for a healthier and safer workplace
• Covers all aspects of occupational health, safety, wellness, and related legal issues affecting all workplaces
• Indispensable resource helps you to avoid expensive fines
• Monitors recent trends and discoveries in the occupational health and safety field and reveals their legal implications and how they affect your business
• Explains your duties and responsibilities under federal and provincial legislation
• Includes extensive commentary on every Canadian jurisdiction
• Provides you with examples of new or potential health and safety hazards
• Covers your employees' rights to refuse unsafe work
• Cites relevant case law
• Reminds you of impending compliance deadlines, as well as new penalties and fines for contravening the law

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Canadian Employment Law Guide newsletter is the fastest and easiest way to stay up-to-date on the ever-changing legislation covering employment standards and the human rights legal landscape in Canada. Expert commentary will also grant you valuable insight on the latest developments and issues in employment law.

Included free with the purchase of Canadian Employment Law Guide.

Updated bi-monthly. Available to be e-mailed in PDF format only.

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Employment standards are constantly changing and it's vital that you keep up. Canadian Employment Law Guide is the ideal way to stay up-to-date. It will keep you informed of significant changes occurring in all the key areas of employment law. It also includes Q&A sections covering some of the most common employment standards issues, such as maternity and parental leave, vacations with pay, harassment in the workplace, and terminations. Although there is no legislation included in the product, you'll find expert commentary and many useful and relevant case summaries throughout.

Topics covered:

• Employment Insurance
• Minimum wage/overtime
• Equal pay/employment equity
• Payment of wages
• Hours of work
• Personnel records
• Human rights
• Privacy in the workplace
• Labour jurisdictions
• Statutory holidays
• Leaves of absence
• Termination
• Minimum age
• Vacations

Features include:

• Case Table
• Newsletter
• Cumulative Index
• Topical Index

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The complex field of benefits and pensions becomes a lot clearer with the help of Canadian Employment Benefits and Pension Guide newsletter. It will make it easy to stay on top of legislative developments and policy initiatives across Canada. You'll stay abreast of legislation, tax issues, news from the U.S., and vital statistics such as CIA minimum transfer value rates. And each issue has feature articles providing insight and advice on major issues and emerging trends.

Included free with the purchase of Canadian Employment Benefits and Pension Guide.

Updated monthly. Available in PDF format.

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In response to many requests from subscribers, we have created this value-packed combo. Both are widely regarded as essential publications for all organizations. Canadian Business Management Manual provides practical guidance and information for business managers covering a wide range of key topics. Government Assistance Manual offers comprehensive guidance to hundreds of federal and provincial government assistance programs for Canadian business.

Includes monthly newsletter, Management Matters.

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Just about every area that can affect a business is covered in this practical information source. Designed for business managers, Canadian Business Management Manual will be helpful to anyone who is responsible for managing a large or small organization or a particular area of a business. It gives you easy-to-read information on a wide range of business and human resources issues, along with examples, checklists, and procedures.

Topics covered:

• Facts and figures (CPI and Lending Rates)
• Start-ups
• Planning
• Financing and Finance
• Insurance
• Marketing
• Intellectual Property
• E-Commerce
• Commercial Law
• Director and Officer Liability/Corporate Governance
• Franchising
• Environmental Management
• Business Failure – Written by Frank Bennett
• Human Resource Quick Facts
• Statutory Deductions and Remittances
• Labour Standards
• Human Rights
• Privacy
• Workplace Health & Safety
• Workers' Compensation
• Taxation Quick Facts
• Income Tax
• Sales Tax
• Capital Taxes
• New Developments

Includes monthly newsletter, Management Matters.

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• Canadian Business Management Manual and Government Assistance Manual – COMBO
• Government Assistance Manual

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Fast Answers to Your CPP and QPP Questions

Once again, we bring you a new 2011 edition of the popular Your Canada Pension Plan. This well-planned booklet reflects all amendments to date on the Canada Pension Plan. Written in plain language by pension experts, topics covered in this pocket-sized guide include:

• Pensions and Work After 65
• Retirement and Disability Pensions
• Old Age Security Pension
• Taxation of CPP/OAS Benefits
• And much more...

Designed to save you time and to ensure your employees are informed, features include a detailed Table of Contents and a comprehensive Index, providing you and your employees with easy access to answers to commonly asked questions.

Publication date: February, 2011

CUSTOMIZED BOOKLET COVER AND QUANTITY ORDERS
The reasonable price and important information provided in this booklet make it a time-saving, quick reference tool to distribute to employees throughout your company. For orders of 100 booklets or more, we can print customized covers that include your company logo at no extra cost. For pricing on custom covers and/or quantity orders, please contact your Account Manager at 1-866-850-7467.

Looking for information about the Quebec Pension Plan? Click here for more info.

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Webinar information current as of October 9, 2008

When is the last time you really took stock of your HR strategy? Have you linked that strategy to your overall business plan? Do you have metrics in place to monitor its effectiveness? If your answers are shaky to any of these questions, your organization would benefit from some solid professional advice.

Learn how to:

• Audit your current HR strategy or plan
• Successfully link your HR strategy to the overall business strategy
• Analyze and prioritize areas for strategic improvement
• Develop a step by step plan for improvement of your HR strategy
• Present the case for strategic changes to your superiors
• Communicate the strategic changes to your organization
• Measure strategic improvement
• Make the connection between HR Strategy and return on investment

Speaker 

Tim McConnell, B.A, M.P.A., SPHR is a Senior HR Strategist with McConnell HR Consulting Inc. in Ottawa. He has over 25 years experience in Human Resources management, both as a Director of HR and as a senior HR consultant. Tim provides strategic HR guidance to senior executives and clients in the public, private and not-for-profit sectors.

He is a winner of the Ross A. Hennigar Memorial Award from HRPAO. He is the published author of several articles on HR management, Compensation and Organization Design. Tim is a past-President of the Ottawa Human Resources Professionals Association (OHRPA) and a past-President of HRPAO.

McConnell HRC provides services to clients in three key areas: Human Resources Strategy, Compensation and Organization Design.

Format

The following is required to access the archived webinar:

• Flash Player installed in your computer
• an Internet connection
• a sound card

This archived webinar will include:

• PowerPoint presentation with slides
• Speaker and facilitator voice-over presenting the slides and answering pre-recorded questions.

There is no time limitation in usage, you can play, pause and stop the presentation at your convenience.

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This webcast was recorded on May 15, 2007

Do you manage one or more employees? Do you require the skills to actually resolve performance issues and effectively manage difficult situations? Are you looking for practical, hands-on tools and techniques to help you implement a performance management system that works? If you've answered yes to any of these questions, you need to purchase Resolve Employee Performance Issues: How to Implement a Management Process That Works!

Agenda

• Accurately identify sources of performance issues
• Implement an effective performance management process
• Develop performance objectives and goals for individual employees
• Conduct successful performance reviews
• Create personal development plans
• Respond effectively to difficult situations

Format  
Participate right from your desk or office. All you need is an Internet connection and a sound card.

This archived webinar will include:

• PowerPoint presentation with slides
• Speaker and facilitator voice-over presenting the slides and answering pre-recorded questions

The Speaker  
Michelle Chambers, MEd, CHRP, CTDP, has over 18 years of proven and successful management, leadership and consulting experience, including work with three of Canada's top 50 employers. Prior to establishing her organizational learning and development practice, she was responsible nationally for leadership and management development for Telus Mobility/Clearnet Communications. She has also held senior consulting and management roles with Royal Bank of Canada, Parke-Davis Pharmaceuticals and General Motors of Canada.

Michelle works collaboratively with her clients to create sustainable change and to inspire and ultimately increase individual and an organization's effectiveness. Her work with clients has resulted in increased sales revenue; increased employee retention; decreased turnover of staff; increased work satisfaction and performance; decreased operating-costs; and enhanced capabilities for individuals, teams, and organizations. Furthermore, communication skills have been enhanced, leadership has become more focused, and employees have become more engaged.

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This webcast was recorded on November 16, 2006

Want to transform your employee unit into a high-performance team? It's been proven time and time again that when you use effective coaching and communication strategies, you can easily motivate your employees to reach higher levels of productivity. Improve Workplace Performance Through Effective Coaching and Communication is loaded with tips on how to motivate your employees and improve the dynamics of your team.

Agenda

• Discover key strategies to boost employee motivation
• Pinpoint the major roadblocks to successful teamwork
• Identify strategies to overcome these roadblocks
• Understand the "hows" of effective communication
• Avoid pitfalls of poor communication habits
• Encourage your team members to maximize their work performance by utilizing five key coaching skills
• Make the connection between dedicated coaching and return on investment

Format
Participate right from your desk or office. All you need is an Internet connection and a sound card.

This archived webinar will include:

• PowerPoint presentation with slides
• Speaker and facilitator voice-over presenting the slides and answering pre-recorded questions.

The Speaker
Tammy Dewar, PhD, has been a coach for organizational leaders since 1996, with over 20 years' experience designing and delivering leadership and learning solutions. She will provide you with practical knowledge and step-by-step guidance to help you successfully coach your team, boost employee morale, facilitate effective communication, and drive higher performance.

If you would like more details about this product, or would like to order a copy online, please click here.

The 2014 edition of Your Canada Pension Plan is here!

This wildly popular booklet brings the Canada Pension Plan to your fingertips in a well-planned, pocket-sized guide.

NEW THIS YEAR!
Your Canada Pension Plan 2014 is spiral-bound, making it EVEN EASIER to reference the Canada Pension Plan.

This must-have, quick-reference guide has been a popular and reliable tool in the industry for almost 20 years. Written in plain language by pension experts, this guide covers:

• Pensions and Work After 65
• Retirement and Disability Pensions
• Old Age Security Pension
• Taxation of CPP/OAS Benefits
• And much more...

Designed to save you time and to ensure you and your employees stay informed, this booklet also features a detailed Table of Contents and a comprehensive Index.

Wolters Kluwer CCH also offers Your Québec Pension Plan 2014 - our guide to Québec-specific pension questions.

CUSTOMIZED BOOKLET COVER AND QUANTITY ORDERS

The reasonable price and important information provided in this booklet make it a time-saving, quick reference tool to distribute to employees throughout your company. For orders of 100 booklets or more, we can print customized covers that include your company logo at no extra cost. For pricing on custom covers and/or quantity orders, please contact your Account Manager at 1-866-850-7467.

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Fast Answers to Your CPP and QPP Questions

Once again, we bring you a new edition of Your Canada Pension Plan 2012 and Your Quebec Pension Plan 2012. These popular, well-planned booklets reflect all amendments to date on the Canada Pension Plan and Quebec Pension Plan.
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Written in plain language by pension experts, topics covered in each pocket-sized guide include:

• Pensions and Work After 65
• Retirement and Disability Pensions
• Old Age Security Pension
• Taxation of CPP/OAS Benefits
• And much more...

Designed to save you time and to ensure your employees are informed, features include a detailed Table of Contents and a comprehensive Index, providing you and your employees with easy access to answers to commonly asked questions.

Publication date: February, 2012

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Succession planning is critical to any organization’s future success and as such, must be integrated with internal HR practices and clearly linked to business strategy. An effective and well planned succession planning process can assist in retaining top performers by integrating individual career development plans; ensure business continuity as predicted turnover occurs; support workforce planning such as planned reorganizations and market shifts; and can also create a sustainable leadership model. But in order to do so, it is critical to establish and maintain a systematic succession planning program.

This webinar will provide participants with a step-by-step model that connects career development and succession planning processes in order to build a strong talent foundation. The webinar will introduce and explain processes and tools   most commonly applied in best practice approaches when integrating career development into succession planning models. The session will also provide insight into how to implement career development and succession planning into an organization, and how to maintain the program once it’s introduced.

The webinar speaker will share her experiences with introducing succession planning models, maximizing the benefits of the program, addressing common issues, and the resulting acceptance of succession planning as a critical part of the company’s business continuity plan.

Key Learning Objectives

In this webinar you will:

• Gain a working knowledge of career development and succession planning
• Learn how to link career development and succession planning to HR practices and business strategy
• Understand how to connect career development and succession planning processes using best practice approaches
• Learn a step-by-step model for establishing and maintaining a succession planning program
• Examine the design of succession plans and career development plans
• Gain tips for avoiding mistakes and issues during the implementation process

Expert Speaker:

Barbara Adams is a senior business executive with 25+ years’ experience within the human resources field. As Managing Director of HR architects, Barbara specializes in bringing a business approach to an organization’s people practices and in particular, designing creative yet structured approaches to the implementation of human resources strategies and ideas; the design of people oriented workplace practices; and the development of people within these organizations. All with the objective of driving business results by increasing employee performance.

In presentations and projects, Barbara works to translate theoretical concepts into practical and realistic applications by the organization and the individuals within those organizations. Previously Vice-President of Human Resources for one of the 50 Best Employers

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Canadian Master Payroll Guide, 5th Edition is an essential resource for day-to-day payroll functions.  This guide puts all the critical information you need to solve day-to-day payroll issues at your fingertips. This essential resource is the only guide on the market to include convenient charts and formulas. Plus, its comprehensive information is packaged in a portable format that’s up-to-date and easy to understand. 

The Canadian Master Payroll Guide also includes background and commentaries that provide helpful guidance on how to apply the information in each section. The Guide is organized in an intuitive way that mirrors the payroll workflow and covers standard payroll situations. 

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This book helps you ensure that:

• Payroll transactions are accurately reported and recorded
• Your organization meets all governing legislation and regulations
• Monies withheld from employees’ pay are held in trust and remitted on the appropriate due dates
• Your organization is protected against payroll-related fraud
• Your organization maintains the confidentiality of the information flowing through the payroll department

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Readers of the Canadian Master Labour Guide know that finding a trustworthy information source is vital and they have been placing their trust in our guide for over 28 years. 

This best-seller can help you stay on top of changes to employment and labour law.
With complete coverage of federal and provincial labour and employment laws, the Canadian Master Labour Guide gives you the essential information every employer needs to know in one portable and trustworthy source.

WHY Choose Canadian Master Labour Guide?

Employers and advisers turn to Canadian Master Labour Guide as the definitive source for employment and labour law, including information on:

• Key changes in statutory requirements
• Critical court rulings
• New government policies

Key topics include:

• Labour Jurisdictions
• Labour Standards
• Fair Employment Practices: Human Rights, Equal Pay/Pay Equity, and Employment Equity
• Special Issues: Occupational Health and Safety and Employment Insurance
• Organized Labour
• Collective Bargaining

WHAT’S NEW in the 29th Edition?

• Family Day holiday introduced in British Columbia.
• Leaves of absence:
  • Reservist leave added for Nunavut.
  • Leave for death or disappearance of a child added for the federal jurisdiction and Manitoba.
  • Leave for a critically ill child introduced for the federal jurisdiction and Manitoba.
• Maximum hours of operation on Sundays and certain holidays expanded for retail businesses in Manitoba.
• Minimum wage increases in Alberta, BC, Manitoba, Quebec, Saskatchewan, and Yukon.
• New definitions of “suitable employment” and “reasonable job search” for Employment Insurance claimants.
• Expanded commentary on the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, 2005.
• Repeal of the exception which permitted mandatory retirement in the Canadian Human Rights Act.
• New prohibited grounds of discrimination:
  • Gender identity in Manitoba, Nova Scotia, and On

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This publication is designed to save you time when you need information. It's the first publication in Canada to give you a searchable database on both benefits and pensions in a CD-ROM or Internet format. With this Guide, you'll have the most comprehensive library available for employment benefits and pensions in Canada. Just look over the topics covered below and you'll see that this unique publication includes all the information you need in one convenient-to-access source.

Includes monthly newsletter, Canadian Employment Benefits and Pensions Guide Newsletter.

With the launch of the new Internet platform, the updates to your research library are delivered immediately from the editors' desktop to you. The CD and looseleaf subscriptions are updated monthly.

Topics Covered

• Government Sponsored Pension Plans
• Employer Plans – Standards Legislation
• Tax Issues – Employer Sponsored Plans
• Registered Retirement Savings Plans
• How to Set Up a Plan
• Plan Administration
• Social Security Agreements
• Employee Benefits
• Executive and Incentive Compensation
• Flex Benefits and Work Practices
• Pre-Retirement Counseling
• Legislation
• Releases, Bulletins, Policies
• Full text of Laws & Regulations for federal and provincial Pension Legislation
• Pension Appeals Board cases and recent case digests (CCH is the only publisher that carries PAB cases! Pension Appeal Board sends only to us to publish – cases go back as far as 1960's in the electronic format)

Features

• This product's information, analysis and current news will help you develop and administer benefit and pension plans.
• It will keep you up-to-date on information pertaining to benefits and pension contributions.
• The immediate retrieval (in the electronic version) of information, instant links from section to section and program to program, and the extensive information and research resources of CCH, make it an indispensable addition to your HR library.
• This guide describes thoroughly the types of plans available and includes a design criteria and registration information you can use to implement in your organization.
• Conveniently organized commentary and charts help you with the plan's day-today administration.
• For your convenience, relevant tax issues are easily referenced and explanatory commentary is consolidated alongside Revenue Canada Information Bulletins and Circulars, and Guides.
• Enjoy access to information on a full range of employee benefits, including group insurance plans, bonuses, workers' compensation and employment insurance.

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Published: October 2012

Calculating Lost Labor Productivity in Construction Claims demonstrates how to plan for increased labor costs and minimize the risks; identify the causes of the cost overrun; introduce appropriate evidence of lost labor productivity to establish damages; and resolve disputes through prior agreement. Case law support for awards and denials of compensation for each type of claim is analyzed, along with the studies or techniques used to prove damages. You will understand how to quickly and easily compute lost labor productivity caused by a variety of factors.

This book offers easy-to-read sample charts and graphs and applies various empirical and academic studies and models. You also get analysis of productivity losses from the Department of Labor, Construction Industry Institute, NECA and more.

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1: Labor Productivity Defined
• Chapter 2: Overtime and Shift Work
• Chapter 3: Acceleration
• Chapter 4: The Effect of Change Orders on Productivity
• Chapter 5: Productivity Losses Related to Weather
• Chapter 6: Experience Curves
• Chapter 7: Project Characteristics That Affect Labor
• Chapter 8: Project Management Impacts on Productivity
• Chapter 9: Nonwage Labor Cost
• Chapter 10: Measuring Productivity
• Chapter 11: Predicting Labor Productivity Losses
• Chapter 12: Presentation of Productivity Analysis
• Appendix
• Table of cases

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"Wayne provided me with much food for thought, along with an personal action plan to build my network and get going on my next move!"

Bonus Material: A copy of the supporting paper and a complete Question and Answer document prepared by the speaker will be provided in this archived webinar.

Key Learning Objectives:

• Recognize and define their skills, interests, and values
• Understand how their skills, interests, and values align with multiple career opportunities
• Identify the best ways to structure their career plans towards continual learning and progression
• Analyze their current career profiles and explore various career clusters and pathways
• Set achievable goals and make informed, fulfilling decisions about where they plan to be in the future
• Understand how personal ethics can affect business decisions
• Apply decision-making strategies to career choices

Speaker

Wayne Rawcliffe, Founder and President of Senga Consulting Inc.

Wayne brings over 25 years of organizational effectiveness experience as a

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Whether you have to handle a CPP or OAS claim, calculate and remit withholdings on employee compensation, or ascertain the employment status of a contractor, Annotated Canada Pension Plan and Old Age Security Act, 14th Edition, 2015 is for you. This handy work is the only portable, one-stop resource in this area for professionals on the go.

The section-by-section annotations and exhaustive cross sections throughout give you expert commentary and explanations of the legislative provisions, the regulations, and court and tribunal decisions regarding CPP and OAS issues. The book also offers up-to-date coverage of pending legislation and new cases, as well as key decisions of the Pension Appeals Board.

Highlights of new information in the 14th Edition include:

• Amendments implemented by the Jobs, Growth and Long-Term Prosperity Act (Bill C-38), including a summary of the new appeal regime and annotations to the provisions creating the Social Security Tribunal
• All significant Federal Court of Appeal decisions on vital issues such as whether a per diem compensation rate is ‘‘fixed and ascertainable’’ (MNR (Canada) v. Ontario); right to appeal on CPP matters from the Tax Court of Canada (Davitt); online accessibility for claimants (Jodhan); interest award where erroneous information given by the Minister (Bartlett); approach of tribunal where claimant doesn’t appear (Evans); need to refer to every piece of evidence (Simpson and Brennan); motions in the Federal Court of Appeal (McMeekin); evidence on judicial review (McLaughlin); and extension of time (Daoud).
• Important Federal Court decisions, including new authority on when written reasons for granting leave to appeal to the PAB are mandatory
• Updated dollar amounts for YBE (for general and disability claims), YMPE and other statistics throughout;
• New types of disability claims.

The Honourable Gordon Killeen, Q.C., is an active member of the Pension Appeal Board and retired justice of the Ontario Superior Court. His conference lectures in recent years have been influential in the evolution of CPP disability law.

Andrew James is a legal writer. He is the co-author of Ontario Superior Court Practice (with Mr. Justice Todd Archibald, The Honourable Gordon Killeen, Q.C. and James Morton), and Ontario Family Law Practice (with Justice David Steinberg, Justice Craig Perkins and Esther Lenkinski).

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