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Performance Reviews

An employee performance review or evaluation allows for a regular assessment of an individual's performance in the workplace. It is an opportunity for a two-way conversation between an employer and employee where the employee can get feedback on their strengths, weaknesses, goals, and opportunities. For employers they can open discussions with their staff about what they like about their skills and abilities, productivity, and work habits. Regular, even daily feedback is good, but a scheduled performance can provide the chance for a more structured style than regular input or feedback. They can also set standards or benchmarks that give the employee areas in which you expect them to grow and improve. Employees can give their input to their employer as well.

Financial Wellness: Why it Matters to Employers
Some people say that knowing the value of money is all you need. But in today's modern world we all need more sophistication than that to manage our money and not go too far into debt.

The Written Update Missing From a Remote Hiring Assessment
A technical exercise shows part of what a candidate can do. A short written handover can show whether the next person will understand the state of that work.

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When Career Plans Stall: A 5-Question Evidence Check for Managers
When an employee says, "I want to do more strategic work," the next conversation can jump to a new title, a course or a promise to revisit the idea at performance-review time. Yet the ambition is still too vague to guide a fair decision.

	Workforce Retention and Retraining Program Launched
	Report Reveals a Confident, but Restless, Global Workforce
	Survey: Businesses face added productivity, governance and security challenges with disconnected workplace technology
	Survey: New Workplace Technologies Add Challenges
	Uncertainty about the Future is Reshaping How Gen Z Saves for Retirement
	93% of Employers Say Human-Centered Skills Are More Important as AI Reshapes Cybersecurity

	AB: Scrapping DEI Hiring Practices
	SK: Unemployment Rate Second Lowest Amongst Provinces at 5.4 Per Cent in September
	ON: Province Announces $8 Billion Ontario Tax Cut to Support Investment and Create Jobs
	ON: Province Saving Businesses $160 Million as WSIB Lowers Premiums
	ON: Prov. And Fed. Gov t. Launch New Action Plan to Protect Workers from Tariffs
	NB: Proposed Amendments to Enhance Protection for Foreign Workers
	NS: Minimum Wage Rises to $17
	NF: Province Recognizes Disability Employment Awareness Month and Supports Inclusive Employment

This Month
viewpoints
Performance Appraisals: Advice for Managers
Can we agree? We all hate performance appraisals. Okay, now what?

features
Making Performance Reviews Count
Regular, even daily feedback is good, but a scheduled performance can provide the chance for a more structured style than regular input or feedback.
Financial Wellness: Why it Matters to Employers
The fact is that if people are worried about money, they probably can t give one hundred percent at work.

law
Employee s Email Acceptance of Severance Was Binding
The language in the employer s offer and the employee s acceptance was clear, a judge ruled.
Cleaner Reinstated Despite Uttering Death Threat Against Supervisor
The arbitrator felt the woman expressed remorse, had no history of threats, and didn t intend to harm her supervisor.
Tribunal Finds Employer Settlement Offer Was Reasonable
An injured worker was not discriminated against, nor was his employer s offer of $25,000 in damages unreasonable.

strategies
The Written Update Missing From a Remote Hiring Assessment
A technical exercise shows part of what a candidate can do. A short written handover can show whether the next person will understand the state of that work.
When You re Responsible but Not in Control
That is the middle manager s bind: accountable for results without full authority over the conditions producing them.

Shop Talk
When Career Plans Stall: A 5-Question Evidence Check for Managers
A stalled career plan is often a question that has not been translated into work.
New Guide to Help HR Leaders Stabilize Culture Amid Workplace Disruption
The new resource outlines a practical model to help HR leaders and their teams identify culture impacts, reinforce cultural strengths, and apply disruption insights to future culture planning.

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