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HR Information is a powerful thing. It can tell stories about the overall health and state of the workforce and allow leaders to drive business growth through the engagement & productivity of the most valuable asset: The Employee. When employees are not engaged, they tend to leave. When they are dissatisfied with one thing or another related to their job/work environment (i.e., inequitable pay, poor management practices, lacking communications, etc.), they unionize. What do they want? They want an environment that is rich in opportunity and provides them with all the characteristics that make up an equitable, committed style & approach to management. They need leadership that pays attention and understands the labor landscape. Contrary to popular belief, employees don’t unionize because of union influence – they unionize because they feel their employer can do better but either a) doesn’t care about their concerns or b) simply chooses not to improve employment conditions. When leaders treat employees like humans, employees don’t need costly outside representation. Simply put: If you take care of your employees as well as you take care of yourself, then you have little to fear from unions as it is unlikely your employees will see much value in paying an expensive intermediary to deal with you.

Workplace mental health issues present significant costs to Canadian businesses. Estimates are as much as $1,494 per person per year. How much does that add up to at your organization? These costs are not obvious, and are hidden in places like turnover, drug plans, absence, disability claims and presenteeism. However, they can be tackled while also improving employee engagement—if you have an integrative mental health program.

Whether your goal is to understand the impact of the recently released National Standard for Psychological Health and Safety in the Workplace, to develop a new strategy and plan or to improve what you are doing now, this webinar will provide the guidance you are looking for. Three industry experts will demonstrate how an approach that is measurable, integrative and flexible is able to deliver financial ROI and employee engagement.

Our presenters will identify successful approaches to identifying risks, building a business case, increasing leadership awareness and developing and training people managers and employees. During this webinar you’ll have an opportunity to compare your mental health readiness to the average of your competitors—getting instant, confidential results—with Morneau Shepell’s free Mental Health Pulse Check tool.

This program will discuss all aspects of legally effective incident investigation and management, arising from a variety of crisis situations. Basic principles of accident investigation will be examined, as well as management of OSHA/MSHA inspections arising from occupational accidents, insurance and tort/contractor liability issues, media management, staffing, and site security. Given that improperly managed incidents can frequently give rise to OSHA/MSHA prosecution or civil tort and contract liability, learning the basic principles will help to limit legal exposures for companies and their managers. Participants will learn proper approaches to root cause analysis as well as proactive steps that can be taken to avoid crisis situations in the future.

This session will focus on absence management in the workforce today. Proper absence management is key to helping organizations maintain the highest levels of productivity, minimize the total cost of labor, and ensure compliance with constantly changing Federal and State leave management legislation. Tools in the areas of leave requests, benefit accruals, vacancy tracking, and case management help organizations streamline benefit and leave tracking processes. This results in lower absenteeism, increased productivity, less manual processing, and overall compliance with leave standards. When organizations utilize absence management best practices, they can reach these goals and focus attention back on a productive workforce.

Few businesses face as much complexity in payroll administration and accounting as manufacturing. Unions, irregular hours, government contracts, high turnover and immigration issues add to the challenges of multiple jobs, pay rates, state jurisdictions, and industry-specific reporting standards. Ammu Warrier, a recognized expert in managing contingent workers for manufacturing companies, will provide practical advice for managing industrial worker time and expense. The session will cover: • Work scheduling techniques that provide the workers needed for each production run • Establishing and enforcing pay and work rules – consistently and accurately – across the organization. • Curbing the rising rate of litigation over alleged violations of state and federal labor laws • Building a Link between time management and worker safety • Generating workforce intelligence data that ties actual labor costs to production, even when your labor picture includes complexities such as different wages, premium pay, partial shifts, and team allocation.

Workplace grief costs U.S. businesses billions of dollars a year in reduced productivity and increased errors and accidents, yet the word grief rarely shows up in reports. In The Hidden Annual Cost of Grief in America’s Workplace 2003 report, the keyword in the title of this report is the word "hidden." It is just that factor that has caused the problem to escalate to now unimaginable proportions and it is the essential reason that it is getting worse rather than better. In this presentation we will address the definition of grief, the grief/workplace connection, the cost of "presenteeism" to corporations and we will discover how managers and other employees can support coworkers who have experienced personal loss.