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Ergonomics vs. aesthetics: The art of choosing the office chair
Written by Michelle Morra   
Wednesday, 14 April 2010
Those trendy office chairs that match the colour in your office may look appealing to your eyes, but may not be so kind to your employees' backs. Why bringing in the ergonomist to work with your interior designer can save you some pain in the future.

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Protect your company from overtime complaints and costs
Tips for managing in our over-connected world
Written by Laurie Blake   
Tuesday, 06 April 2010
Read more...The latent issue of overtime has the potential to become explosive and imminent, enflamed by society’s 24/7 connectivity and stoked by recent overtime class action suits in Canada’s financial sector, says lawyer Mort Mitchnick of Borden Ladner Gervais LLP. On February 19th, an Ontario court allowed a class action suit against the Scotiabank over overtime to proceed. This, despite a dismissal last year of a similar class action suit against the CIBC.

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Minimum wage increases in Ontario and Nova Scotia
Written by Workplace Staff   
Tuesday, 30 March 2010
Ontario is bringing in the seventh consecutive annual increase to the minimum wage raising it to $10.25, effective March 31. And, on April 1 Nova Scotians will see the minimum wage increase to $9.20 on April 1. This is a 6.9 per cent increase from the current rate of $8.60.

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Ontario court rejects Nortel settlement to former and disabled employees
Written by Workplace Staff   
Tuesday, 30 March 2010
Justice Morawetz of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice has rejected a proposed settlement in the Nortel insolvency proceedings involving the claims of Nortel's terminated employees, pensioners and employees on long term disability.


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Measuring the ROI & VOI of employee engagement
Written by Doug Brown   
Sunday, 14 March 2010
Read more...Business headlines declare that for many sectors the recession is nearly over. Maybe so, but that doesn’t mean the purse strings have loosened up any. In fact, for many organizations it means doing more with less and scrutinizing every line on the budget sheet. Employee engagement programs, although not a large expense, have been an easy target to trim as they often lack specific tracking metrics and are hard to measure in terms of Return on Investment (ROI) and Value on Investment (VOI).

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