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CHRR Talk

Since 1987, Canadian HR Reporter has served as Canada’s indispensable guide to human resources management. CHRR Talk keeps you informed on the latest industry news, trends & issues, including employment law, employee attraction & retention, workplace mental health, diversity & inclusion, performance management & much more.

Episodes

Episode 30: Boosting retention and recruitment with organizational wellbeing

January 18, 2024 • 20 mins
Sarah Beech, the Canadian CEO of Gallagher's HR Consulting Division discusses Gallagher's 2023 Organizational Wellbeing Report that shows many employers had higher than expected turnover in 2022. Where are organizations in terms of their wellbeing and competitiveness in the market, and what factors are impacting turnover and recruitment?
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Episode 29: The Mentally Healthy Workplace

November 30, 2023 • 22 mins
Trevor Bogan of the Top Employers Institute talks about how his organization promotes mentally healthy workplaces, best practices to promote them, and the role of HR professionals in creating and maintaining them.
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Episode 28: The Top 5 HR Missteps

November 7, 2023 • 29 mins
Krista Siedlak of Turnpenney Milne talks with host Jeffrey Smith about what she sees in her practice as the five most common missteps that HR makes - whether on their own or at the behest of organizational leadership - and how they can mitigate the legal risk for their organizations.
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Episode 27: The 4 Day Work Week Trials

August 28, 2023 • 24 mins
A four day work week pilot program involving 41 companies in North America recently wrapped and by most indicators it was a success. Joe O'Connor, Director of the Canadian-based Work Time Reduction Centre of Excellence, discussed the program results, the concept of the four-day work week, and what comes next.
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Episode 26: The wacky side of HR

July 27, 2023 • 29 mins
Kiljon Shukullari, HR advice manager at Peninsula Canada, chats with Jeffrey Smith about the importance of dealing with a variety of challenges in the HR role and recalls unusual calls that Peninsula's HR advisors in Canada have encountered.
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Episode 25: Boomerang Employees

July 11, 2023 • 16 mins
Martin Fox, managing director of Robert Walters Canada, chats with Jeffrey Smith about a Robert Walters poll showing that many workers who changed their employment during the pandemic are considering going back, and many of those employers are welcoming them back with open arms.
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Episode 24: Employer Bad Faith Conduct

June 23, 2023 • 23 mins
Jeff Rochwerg of Toronto law firm Turnpenney Milne talks about what qualifies as bad-faith conduct, its legal liabilities, and how employers can avoid it and the extra damages it can bring in a wrongful dismissal lawsuit.
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Episode 23 - Engaging young professionals with climate change concerns

June 12, 2023 • 14 mins
A GHD survey found that young professionals have anxiety about climate change, but they don't feel empowered to act. How can employers engage with young employees and work with them to become change agents?
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Episode 22: The workation experience

June 12, 2023 • 21 mins
Karolina Turowska, an employee of PhotoAiD in Poland, speaks with Jeffrey about the opportunity her company provides to take a 'workation' at a small office it maintains in Tenerife and what it does for its workforce.
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Episode 21: Top challenges facing HR in 2023

June 12, 2023 • 18 mins
Joey Raheb, Chief Commercial & Broking Officer, and Cathy Perron, Health Canada Co-Leader - both with Health Solutions at Aon - speak with Jeffrey Smith about the challenges HR is facing in 2023 and beyond. They cover topics such as benefits inflation, DEI, data & analytics, and more.
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Episode 20: Canada's Hiring Outlook

June 12, 2023 • 15 mins
Darlene Minatel, general manager for Canada with Manpower Group, joins Jeffrey Smith to discuss the organization's most recent Employment Outlook Survey for Canadian employers.
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Episode 19: The Effects of Workplace Conflict

June 12, 2023 • 22 mins
The Myers-Briggs Company conducted a survey on how people see conflict and how it affects the workplace. John Hackston, Head of Thought Leadership at Myers-Briggs, chats with Jeffrey about what the survey found and what employers can learn from it.
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Episode 18: The Legal Liabilities of Poisoned Workplaces

June 12, 2023 • 24 mins
Kathryn Bird, a partner with law firm Ogletree Deakins in Toronto, speaks with Jeffrey about how employers can identify whether their work environment is toxic and poisoned, and the legal risks that can raise.
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Episode 17: What's next in employee compensation planning

June 12, 2023 • 17 mins
Jeffrey Smith of Canadian HR Reporter speaks with Elizabeth English of Mercer to discuss the findings of its 2023 Compensation Planning Survey, with data from more than 550 organizations in Canada.
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Episode 16: Employee experience challenges for global employers

June 12, 2023 • 19 mins
Will Porteous, chief growth officer of Maven Clinic, discusses how global employers can develop comparable benefit plans across jurisdictions and how cultural differences can affect the employee experience.
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Episode 15: Workplace Drug and Alcohol Testing

June 12, 2023 • 29 mins
Stephen Shore, partner at Ogletree Deakins, discusses if and when employers can implement drug and alcohol testing in the workplace and the evolution of the law in this area.
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Episode 14: The 4-day Work Week

June 12, 2023 • 22 mins
Matt Schmidt, CEO of Peoplelogic, chats with Jeffrey Smith about his thoughts on experimenting with the four-day work week, pros and cons to the four-day work week, and some important factors that companies should consider if they're entertaining the idea of moving to such an arrangement.
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Episode 13: Navigating Toxic Work Environments

June 12, 2023 • 30 mins
Bonnie Low-Kramen - a TEDx speaker, founder and CEO of a curated training solution for corporate leaders and assistants, and former personal assistant to actor Olympia Dukakis - chats with Jeffrey Smith about what causes workplace toxicity, why employees are leaving their jobs, and how organizations and leaders should respond to workplace harassment and bullying.
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Episode 12: Recipe for a great place to work

June 12, 2023 • 19 mins
Keith D’Sa, the country manager for Axis Communications in Canada, discusses what a great workplace looks like. Keith's organization, Axis Communications, has won several best workplace awards in recent years.
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Episode 11: Prescribing the right benefits

June 12, 2023 • 21 mins
Christine Griffin of health benefits management company Express Scripts speaks with Jeffrey Smith about prescription benefits – the role health benefits can play in today’s employment world and how employers can balance costs with maintaining a good plan.
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