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COVID-19 – Short Term Disability Coverage & Sick Leave
For information about Workers Compensation Coverage please refer to this article. Originally posted March 13, 2020 Updated March 24, 2020 With the World Health Organization (WHO)...
COVID-19 – Workers’ Compensation Coverage
Originally Posted: March 13, 2020 Updated: April 7, 2021 With the World Health Organization (WHO) declaring the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) a pandemic, Canadian employers...
Supporting Employees with a Mental Health Plan
As an employer, you probably know that it is in your best interest – both from a legal and a financial standpoint – to protect the physical health of your employees. But have you...
How does the Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM) Program Work?
A traumatic event may occur over a few hours or a few minutes, but the long-term effects that it can have on your employees and your business can be devastating. When serious mental...
Personal Days: Why Are They Important?
“Personal Days” can be a tricky topic for Canadian employers to understand. While “sick days” and “vacation days” are fairly self-explanatory, personal days are less so. Each province...
Introducing Thrive: The Mental Health App
A healthy workplace isn’t only about physical health, it’s about mental health as well. When employers treat mental health on an equivalent level with physical health and support the...
Plan the New Year: Put a Disability Management Process & Procedure in Place
The New Year is a time that we set personal and professional goals. If your company doesn’t have a disability management procedure – or you have one and it’s been a while since you’ve...
WSIB’s New Rate Framework: Are You Ready?
As an employer, you should have received within the past month or so a letter from the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) providing you with a detailed breakdown of WSIB’s...
The Importance of Taking Vacation Days from Work
With the holidays coming up, taking a little much needed and deserved vacation is on the minds of many workers. But did you know that many employees in North America never take their...
How Flexibility at Work Can Create Stronger, More Productive Employees
As a business owner or company manager, you know how important boosting productivity can be to your company’s bottom line. Often, however, managers are at a loss as to exactly how to...
Canadian Workers’ Compensation Digest
Occupational health and safety is an ever-changing field, with policies, regulations and best practices evaluated regularly to ensure that workers’ compensation boards across Canada...
Accommodation: What it Means and How Employers Can Accommodate Employees
According to Canadian Human Rights legislation, employers have a duty to accommodate employees that may have a physical or a mental disability. Accommodation simply means that you...
Happy Employees = Happy Employers | Our Top Tips for Happier Employees
It should come as no surprise that happy employees are more motivated and more productive than unhappy employees. For a business, happy employees ultimately contribute to greater...
What Hierarchy? The Importance of a Level Playing Field at Work for Mental Health
Many workplaces have strictly ingrained hierarchies, and indeed this can make sense in certain areas where there is a need for a reporting structure, quality control, and so forth....
Benefits of First Aid Training in the Workplace
You are probably aware that first aid training can save someone’s life or mitigate the effects of an accident or medical emergency, but did you know that offering your employees first...
Why You Need to Speak to Your Employees About Health and Safety
Health and safety in the workplace is everyone’s responsibility. The more engaged your employees are in the process, the more invested they are in the outcome - resulting in a safer...
Creating a Post-Incident Policy
Most businesses and organizations do their best to prevent work-related accidents. But even the most safety-conscious of workplaces is not completely immune to on the job incidents....
Tips for Incident Reporting
When an accident occurs in the workplace, your first thought usually isn’t how you are going to handle the paperwork. Hopefully, your first thought is making sure the accident victim...