by Stéfanie Rochford, CRHA
Not to confound with recruiting, job creations have been important in 2017 for companies motivated in attracting talent and in employee retention.
Talent management includes workforce planning, identifying and retaining high-potential employees, professional development and succession planning.
The combined factors of the unemployment rate at its lowest in Canada since 1976, the economic growth and the effects of the aging of the active population will be creating a shortage of both skilled and manual type labor in major Canadian cities.
The digital revolution brings a « blurring effect » between the boundaries of work and personal life thus creating negative effects on the work-life balance. This phenomenon has motivated France who in January 2017, introduced a new labor law that empowers the employee not to respond to emails after business hours.
This growing movement has prompted Quebec to invest 25 million dollars over the next 3 years on various initiatives. Will these investments provoke effects on the Canadian Labour Code in the near future?
This trend has recently increased in importance with large public companies and industrialized countries. Germany has introduced a new labour law since January 2018 that people working in companies of 200 employees and more will now have access to their colleague’s remuneration.
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Happy new year!
Stéfanie Rochford, CRHA
