September 14, 2010
- Canadian Labour Board Law Conference & Bora Laskin Award Dinner
- Labour Day Redoux and Work in Progress
- CAW 25th anniversary and Worker Adjustment Study
- New Freedom of Association blog
- Global Union
- Immigration, jobs and Canada’s Future
- Beyond Generational Differences and Maximizing Mentoring and Securing Sponsorship
- Salary Planning 2010 from Hay Group and Hewitt
- Global Talent Management and Rewards Survey
- Managing the global workforce
- Sanofi-aventis Healthcare Survey - encouraging better health among employees?
- Large Employers’ 2011 Health Plan – United States
- Statistics Canada papers of interest
- Global Competitiveness – Canada drops to 10th place out of the 139 economies surveyed
- Book of the Week
Canadian Labour Board Law Conference & Bora Laskin Award Dinner
Presented by Lancaster House and the University of Toronto, Centre for Industrial Relations and Human Resources.Tuesday, October 19 & Wednesday, October 20, 2010 The Sutton Place Hotel Toronto 955 Bay Street, Toronto, ON, M5S 2A2.
Conference details & registration information.
Labour Day Redoux and Work in Progress
CBC, September 6, 2010: State of the union:(video 10:38 minutes) United Steelworker economist Erin Weir, the Canadian Federation of Independent Business's Judith Andrew and former CAW president Buzz Hargrove discuss the relevance and future of labour unions
CBC, September 6, 2010: Unions' Labour Day bogey: government cuts: 'A short-sighted, ill-advised strategy': labour congress head
CBC, September 3, 2010: The year in labour relations (with video)
Toronto Star, September 6, 2010: Bargaining on higher ground, by Buzz Hargrove
CBC, September 4, 2009: Highlights in Canadian Labour History
Work in Progress
“The Current’s (CBC Radio) series, Work in Progress promises to explore developing trends and changes in how and why we work. We start with a very simple premise: everyone works, paid or not, and everyone has an opinion about work. We will tap into the national work ethos to witness work … in progress.” This series has been running since September 2009 – until June 2010 and was rebroadcast this summer. Take a listen -- topics include bullying, Steelworkers in Sudbury, job quality erosion, disappearing jobs, awesome jobs, exit interviews and many more ‘working’ topics.
CBC, The Current, Work in Progress, September 2009 – June 2010:
CAW 25th anniversary and Worker Adjustment Study
CAW has celebrated its 25th anniversary publishing a book, Making History: A Visual Record of the CAW's First 25 Years, of historic photographs that highlight key moments in CAW history (available in the CIRHR Library). A special edition of the CAW newsletter CONTACT looks at the union’s recent Joint Council meeting in Quebec and a new discussion paper titled, Fighting for Good Jobs,examines the steady decline in job quality for Canadian workers over the past 30 years.
CONTACT, vol. 10, #30, September 2010: Joint CAW Quebec Council, Montreal, Quebec - August 27-29, 2010; 25th Anniversary CAW: Celebrating 25 Years of Progress
Worker Adjustment Study
The CAW has released a study tracking laid off workers in three different cities across southern Ontario that highlights how difficult it is to find work in the current economy. The study was initiated by CAW with funding approved in the adjustment contract between CAW, Chrysler Canada and the Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities.
CAW Worker Adjustment Tracking Project: preliminary findings, First Round Report, June 2010, by Sam Vrankulj, (57 pages, PDF)
New Freedom of Association blog
In February 2010 experts in international law, Canadian constitutional and domestic law as well as representatives from labour, business and government were convened at the University of Saskatchewan to discuss the implications of recent court decisions and international developments. The presentations of all 21 speakers were transcribed and, based on the transcriptions, the speakers were asked to review and finalize their comments. Those talks have now been posted online.
Freedom of Association Blog: The site allows readers to respond with their reactions and views to each post. The goal is to encourage an ongoing dialogue, by Roy J. Adams, conference convener and Ariel F. Sallows Chair of Human Rights for 2009-2010, U. of Saskatchewan College of Law
Global Union
“The United Steelworkers (USW), which represents 850,000 workers in Canada, the Caribbean, and the United States, and the National Union of Miners and Metal Workers (SNTMMSRM), known as the Mineros, which represents 180,000 workers in Mexico, have announced plans to explore uniting into one international union. The merger would create an international union of one million metal workers and miners. The agreement to begin exploration of a merger was signed on June 21.” [ quoted from article cited below]
MRZine: a project of the Monthly Review Foundation, June 28, 2010: “Unions Representing Workers in Canada, Mexico, and U.S. Explore Merger by Dan La Botz
Immigration, jobs and Canada’s Future
The July issue of Policy Options is titled, Immigration, jobs and Canada's future. Authors include Jeff Reitz of the Centre for International Studies University of Toronto and Don Drummond.
Policy Options, July 2010: Immigration, jobs and Canada's future – with links to individual articles
Policy Options, July 2010: Selecting Immigrants for the Short term: is it smart in the long run? by Jeffrey G. Reitz (5 pages, PDF)
Policy Options, July 2010: Economics perspective on Canadian immigration, by Don Drummond and Francis Fong ( 7 pages, PDF)
Beyond Generational Differences and Maximizing Mentoring and Securing Sponsorship
Since age and generation intersect with other dimensions of diversity, including gender, ethnicity, and nationality, companies who seek to address the needs of a generationally diverse workforce need to take an integrated approach. Beyond Generational Differences: Bridging Gender and Generational Diversity at Work, a recent Catalyst publication, provides the tools to develop such an approach, incorporating gender and generational strategies.
Beyond Generational Differences: Bridging Gender and Generational Diversity at Work, by Laura Sabattini, Anika Warren, Sarah Dinolfo, Emily Falk, Mekayla Castro, Catalyst, September 14, 2010 (28 pages, PDF)
Maximizing Mentoring and Securing Sponsorship
Catalyst has published a “tool” that will help both you and your company implement women’s sponsorship programs. Learn the differences between “mentoring” and “sponsorship” and how vital each is to your career development. Links to other recent papers by Catalyst on women in management are also provided.
Maximizing Mentoring and Securing Sponsorship, Catalyst, 2010 (8 pages, PDF)
Salary Planning 2010 from Hay Group and Hewitt
Hay Group has conducted its annual compensation planning update for the upcoming year. Organizations were surveyed with an online questionnaire for their forecasts for base salary policy and base salary actual for the next twelve months. Five hundred and sixty-one responded: 350 industrial, 104 financial and 177 organizations from the broader public sector.
Bulletin: Summary of the Hay Group Limited Compensation planning update for 2011, September 2010.
Organizations Look Beyond Base Pay to Attract and Retain Key Employees, According to Hewitt Associates.
Hewitt September 07, 2010: Salary Increases for 2010 and 2011 Remain Below Three Per Cent
Global Talent Management and Rewards Survey
The Towers Watson Global Talent Management and Rewards Survey, a study of 1,176 companies globally, including 155 from Canada, also found that a majority of respondents said the cost-cutting measures that they took during the recession and financial crisis had an adverse impact on employees’ workloads, their ability to manage work-related stress and overall employee engagement. As a result, companies are beginning to reevaluate their reward and talent management programs, and how they attract, retain and motivate employees.
Press release and summary, September 7, 2010
Download the complete report 2010 Global Talent Management and Rewards Study here – you must register first.
Managing the global workforce
“According to Ernst & Young’s latest report, Managing today’s global workforce, leading companies are aligning talent management with their overall business strategy and integrating it with their human resources (HR) initiatives to increase competition and drive revenue.”
Managing today’s global workforce: Elevating talent management to improve business, Ernst & Young, May 2010 (24 pages, PDF)
Sanofi-aventis Healthcare Survey - encouraging better health among employees?
The survey offers the benefits industry a benchmark to evaluate emerging healthcare issues that impact employee health and productivity. Past Sanofi-aventis surveys have looked at the issues of workplace stress, the growing need for homecare services and disease prevention.
Sanofi-aventis Healthcare Survey 2010: (Click on the Download Button) Can plan sponsors play a meaningful role in encouraging better health among employees? Should they? Based on this year’s survey findings, the answer on both counts remains a resounding yes.
Large Employers’ 2011 Health Plan – United States
The National Business Group on Health conducted its annual plan design survey with members in the spring/summer of 2010. This survey is one of the few surveys conducted mid-year just as employers are finalizing their plan designs for the following year. The survey asks members to provide information on their 2011 plan offerings, including: medical plan costs, consumer-directed health care, healthy lifestyles and incentives, pharmacy benefits, retiree medical coverage design changes.
Survey report: Large Employers’ 2011 Health Plan Design Changes, National Business Group on Health, August 2010, (22 pages, PDF)
Statistics Canada papers of interest
Perspectives on Labour and Income August 2010 issue: “Income replacement during the retirement years” and “Gambling, 2010”
Canadian Social Trends, September 9, 2010: “Sharing their lives: women, marital trends and education,” by Laetitia Martin and Feng Hou.
Analytical Studies Branch Research Paper Series, August 29, 2010: “Replacing Family Income During the Retirement Years: How Are Canadians Doing?” by S. LaRochelle-Côté, J. Myles and G. Picot.
Economic Analysis Research Paper Series, July 26, 2010: “Incomes of Retirement-age and Working-age Canadians: Accounting for Home Ownership,” by W. Mark Brown, Feng Hou, and Amélie Lafrance
Global Competitiveness – Canada drops to 10th place out of the 139 economies surveyed
Through its reports and activities the Centre for Global Competitiveness and Performance of the World Economic Forum identifies impediments to growth and thereby helps stimulate the development of relevant strategies to achieve sustained economic progress. The Centre works with leading academics worldwide to ensure latest thinking and research on global competitiveness are incorporated into its reports.
The Global Competitiveness Report 2010-2011 (September 9, 2010)
Toronto Star, September 9, 2010: Building a Competitive Economy, by Robert Greenhill Chief Business Officer of the World Economic Forum
Book of the Week
The Last Male Bastion: Gender and the CEO Suite in America's Public Companies, by Douglas M. Branson. New York : Routledge, 2010. 263 p. ISBN 9780415872966 (pbk.)
Not until 1997 did a female become chief executive officer of a Fortune 500 corporation (Jill Barad, at Mattel Toy Co. Women’s progress since that time has been in fits and starts, exceedingly slow. The number of women CEOs reached 4 in 1999 only to slide back to 2 in 2001. Meanwhile, while not reaching anything approaching parity, women made significant strides in politics (as senators, cabinet secretaries and governors), in not-for-profit spheres (as CEOs of health care and hospital organizations or of United Way chapters, with budgets of billions of dollars), and at colleges and universities (23 % have female presidents or chancellors). Currently, 3%, or 15, of Fortune 500 CEOs are women.
After examining in detail the educations, career progressions, pronouncements and observations, as well as family lives, of the 19 women who have risen to the top (sitting and former CEOs), this book asks, and attempts to answer, two questions:
Why haven’t more women reached the CEO suite?How might women in business better position themselves to ascend to the pinnacle?
About the Author: Before joining the faculty at Pittsburgh, Professor Branson taught at Seattle University.
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