Fairness in the Workplace provides practical information and step-by-step guidance for solving workplace problems prudently and effectively, essential for anyone involved in human resources management today.

Topics covered:

• Hiring – Learn what you can and can't ask on application forms, in interviews and after an offer of employment is made
• Human rights – Learn how to prevent and settle complaints and how to deal with official investigations
• Harassment – Learn how to prevent and resolve it and how to develop a proactive policy
• Employee privacy – Learn how and when to respect privacy in the workplace and what you need to know about current laws
• Pay equity – Learn how to provide equal pay for work of equal value and adjust your pay scales so that they are fair to your employees
• Absenteeism – Learn how to deal with this chronic and costly workplace problem

About the Author
Anneli LeGault is a partner in the Employment, Pension and Research Group in the Toronto office of the national law firm Fraser Milner Casgrain LLP. A graduate of the University of Toronto (Hons. BA, LLB), she was called to the Ontario bar in 1982. She is currently the co-chair of the firm's National Labour and Employment Practice, which includes labour and employment lawyers from British Columbia, Alberta, Ontario and Quebec.

Anneli represents management in employment, human rights, equity, labour relations and privacy matters. She frequently gives speeches and seminars on human rights, privacy, employment equity, pay equity, downsizing, discipline and wrongful dismissal. She has been an editor of Focus on Canadian Employment and Equality Rights for more than 10 years and has written articles for Canadian Industrial Relations and Personnel Developments on a quarterly basis.

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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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Fast Answers to Your CPP and QPP Questions

Once again, we bring you a new 2010 edition of the popular Your Québec 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, 2009

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Published: October 2011

International Labour Law, 3rd Edition provides in-depth interpretation of the crucial International Labour Organisation (ILO) instruments - Constitution, conventions, declarations, resolutions, and recommendations - as well as such other sources of law as the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises and various model and actual corporate codes of conduct.

Among the substantive areas of labour law covered in this book are the following:

• The relationship between international labour law and economic competition
• Standards on industrial relations
• Collective bargaining and dispute settlement procedures
• Protection of trade unions
• Prohibitions on enforced and child labour
• Promotion of equal opportunity and treatment
• Time and rest provisions
• Wage determination and protection
• Occupational health and safety provisions
• Special issues on non-standard forms of employment
• Foreign and migrant workers
• Social security provisions
• Maritime work

The presentation demonstrates that these rules and standards, notwithstanding their much-maligned intrinsic legal force, do in fact offer invaluable benchmarks to governments, judiciaries, employers, and trade unions. The book's combination of detailed commentary and an overarching social policy will make it especially valuable to legislators, human resources managers, employers´ organizations, trade unions, jurists, and academics concerned with the role of work in our globalized social system.

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The International Encyclopaedia of Law: Sports Law deals with international, regional and national sports law. For all three levels, it includes the texts of the laws and the regulations of the sports organizations in a codex section. Countries currently covered include India, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom.

Monographs are structured by jurisdiction and cover various issues such as the history of sports law, media and sponsorship, competition, employment, health, tax and responsibility for injury. For each level of jurisdiction a further distinction will be made between public regulation from governmental authorities and private regulation and by-laws from sports organizations like the IOC and FIFA.

For detailed information on all volumes of the Encyclopaedia, please visit: www.ielaws.com.

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Published: November 2012

Contracts can be your first line of defense against delays. But they have to be drafted very carefully. Construction Delay Claims, Fourth Edition gives you an in-depth analysis of all the pertinent clauses and details what they can and can’t do to minimize delays and avoid litigation.

This resource is written for everyone involved with delay and impact construction claims — the most common form of disputes in the construction industry. You’ll find that this resource presents the most thorough, detailed review of delay claims liability available, including a complete description of the entire process for filing and pursuing claims along with more than 1,950 cases and analyses.

It gives you the information you need to determine your best course of action. The book presents detailed knowledge drawn from the authors’ thirty-five years of experience in the industry. You’ll learn how to anticipate delays and mitigate damages through the use of advanced planning and immediate responses by the parties involved. You’ll also receive helpful instructions about the best use of construction schedules to avert delays, or to prove their impact if they do occur.

Coverage includes:

• Effective ways to challenge a claimant’s use of the Total Cost Method of Calculation
• The effectiveness of “no damages for delay” clauses
• The use of ADR methods to resolve delay claims
• The meaning and implication of concurrent delays
• Cumulative impact effect of multiple change orders
• The impact and probability of delays in design-build, construction management, and multiple prime contracting
• Latest research into the effect and measurement of lost productivity
• The most recent assessments of how states are applying the Eichleay formula

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Published: July 2012

Anticipate, evaluate and litigate claims and get up-to-date with the latest methods for determining value of work, with the definitive guide to construction change orders. Commonly encountered claim issues are covered in detail, including surety issues, evaluating changes resulting from ambiguous specifications or inadequate design, measuring the cost impact of delays and proving the price of damages. Construction Change Order Claims delivers innovative defenses and offers practical tips and accounting tools to evaluate progress and calculate payments.

Is a change order on a construction project an “extra”? When does an owner’s unintentional interference cross the line between a mere hindrance to an alteration of the contractor’s intended methods of performance? What specific circumstances support the use of the cardinal change doctrine? When should the Percentage of Completion accounting method be employed? This all-in-one resource helps you quickly answer these difficult questions and steers you through every type of change claim, offering hands-on guidance and analysis from 25 experienced practitioners.

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1: The Owner’s Right to Make Changes and the Contractor’s Right to be Paid
• Chapter 2: Scope of Typical Clauses
• Chapter 3: Authority to Order Changes
• Chapter 4: Formal Change Orders and Constructive Changes
• Chapter 5: Challenging the Finality of an Executed Change Order
• Chapter 6: Contractor Certifications and False Claims
• Chapter 7: Changes Resulting from Breach of Implied Warranties, Misrepresentation, and Non-Disclosure of Superior Knowledge
• Chapter 8: Changes Resulting from Ambiguous Specifications
• Chapter 9: Changes That Result from Delays and Interferences
• Chapter 10: Changes Resulting from Impossibility or Impracticability of Performance
• Chapter 11: The Cardinal Change
• Chapter 12: Changes Resulting from Termination
• Chapter 13: Notice Requirements for Changes and Related Claims
• Chapter 14: Pre-Litigation Advice for Change Order Claims
• Chapter 15: Preparing and Defending a Claim for Damages: A Practical Guide
• Chapter 16: Surety Issues Pertaining to Changes
• Chapter 17: Accounting for Change Orders: How and When to Recognize Revenue from Change Orders
• Chapter 18: Proving and Pricing Damages
• Table of cases
• Index

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FOR HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION OF MANITOBA (HRMAM) MEMBERS ONLY The Ultimate HR Manual - Western Edition (Manitoba), the "how-to" resource for HR professionals in Western Canada, will be available September 2008, officially endorsed by HRMAM. HERE'S WHY THIS HR MANUAL IS DIFFERENT FROM THE REST.

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A joint effort of British Columbia Human Resource Management Association (BC HRMA) and CCH – the content and strategy for this unique reference resource was determined by results of a survey to more then 5,000 members and associates of the BC HRMA.

The concept for the Ultimate HR Manual-Western Edition is based on the highly successful Ultimate HR Manual originally developed in partnership with the HRPAO.

We asked. You answered. So we went to work!

Who knows what should be in an HR manual better than your Human Resource Professional community? The facts on what you want as an HR Professional came out loud and clear in our survey results. You told us you don’t want loads of detail on legislation. And that you don’t want abstract theory or academic discussion. In short, you told us you don’t want the kind of HR resource that is already out there.

Instead, you told us you want practical, easy-to-find, easy-to-read answers and solutions to help you deal with the situations and issues that you face every day.

As a result, we listened to what you want and we’re going to give it to you.

Here are the 6 key benefits you’ll enjoy with the new Ultimate HR Manual – Western Edition.

Minimize your HR compliance concerns - Millions of dollars are paid out over compliance issues each year, which is why compliance is a key concern of every HR Manager. This is one concern you won’t have anymore because each month you’ll receive a monthly newsletter letting you know about relevant changes in both federal, British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba legislation.

You’ll have all the forms, checklists and templates you’ll ever need - Having easy access to these work aids will save you immeasurable time, especially when you can customize and print them for your specific purpose.

You’ll be a more effective manager - You’ll have hundreds of “best practice” tips on productivity, motivation and other key bottom line areas. And you’ll be able to speak and act with even more authority in difficult and controversial situations because you’ll have proven expert opinion and advice to back you up.

You’ll be able to stay current without hours of tough reading - Staying up-to-date means slogging through baffling legalese or complicated legislation. But you don’t need to know the details of change. All you need to know is how your organization will be affected. And that’s what you’ll find out in the easy-to-read concise commentaries in the Ultimate HR Manual-Western Edition.

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Your Employment Standard Questions Answered - Federal and Provincial Guidance, 6th Edition

If you're looking for answers to the many employment standards questions you come across every day, you need Your Employment Standards Questions Answered – Federal and Provincial Guidance, 6th Edition at your fingertips.

With a clear index and detailed tables of contents for each chapter to easily point you to the appropriate section, as well as a straightforward question-and-answer format, this concise reference fits neatly into your busy day.

Covering legislation from all 14 jurisdictions in Canada, this book is intended for employers, human resources professionals, employees, consultants and all those concerned with the employment relationship. While principles underlying employment and human rights law are standard across the country, the details vary a great deal. You'll find this new edition of Your Employment Standards Questions Answered – Federal and Provincial Guidance, 6th Edition more useful than ever.

Table of Contents:

• Defining and Regulating the Employment Relationship
• Minimum Age of Employment
• Minimum Wages and Call-In Pay
• Hours of Work and Overtime Pay
• Statutory Holidays
• Vacations with Pay
• Leaves of Absence
• Payment of Wages
• Personnel Records
• Termination of Employment
• Wrongful Dismissal
• Discrimination in Employment
• Harassment at Work
• Equal Pay and Pay Equity
• Employment Equity
• Enforcement of Employment Standards

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