leadership matters
Your Compass
to Compliance
WITH LEGISLATION CHANGING CONSTANTLY,
HOW CAN HR PROFESSIONALS KEEP UP? By Karen Stone, CHRE
The past decade of employment
law has seen more change than
ever before. In Ontario, our com-mitment
to strong human rights
legislation is commendable – and it takes
a lot of research, knowledge and fast-paced
legal advancement to keep up with emerg-ing
areas of the law.
Issues such as family status accom-modation,
medical marijuana in the
workplace, gender and identity rights,
emerging definitions of disability, psy-chological
safety in the workplace and
changing employment standards legisla-tion
are only a few of the fast-changing
areas of the law.
With all of this evolution of law, it can
be challenging for employers and HR
professionals to keep abreast to ensure
compliance is achieved. The challenge is
even more complex when we have multi-ple
legislative changes occurring at the same
time, or when the changes have different ef-fective
dates and different requirements,
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