leadership matters
CHRL/CHRE Sign-off an
Important Step towards
HR Professionalization
Last fall, HRPA released A New Deal for Ontario’s
Changing Workplaces – a review and recommendations
on the Employment Standards
Act (ESA) and Labour Relations Act (LRA)
that was produced with input from an HRPAmember
survey, interviews with HR executives and
an examination of what other jurisdictions (including
Australia, UK and California) are doing around employment
standards.
(For full details, see “New HRPA report urges modernization
of Employment Standards Act” in the Upfront
section of this magazine.)
Aimed at assisting the Ontario government to
modernize its workplace legislation, the report makes
29 recommendations to help establish a new deal
for Ontario business and workers, including making
temporary workers permanent employees after
a prolonged period with the same employer; and expanding
definitions of what constitutes a contractor,
subcontractor and temporary worker; and clarifying
the relationship between the employer, the client and
these various types of workers within the Employment
Standards Act.
However, a key recommendation that speaks to me
as an HR professional is the recommendation to have
designated HR professionals (including Certified
Human Resources Professionals (CHRPs), Certified
Human Resources Leaders (CHRLs) and Certified
Human Resources Executives (CHREs)) review
and sign off on regulatory compliance documents to
By Brenda Clark, CHRE
THIS IS BACKED UP BY RESEARCH HRPA CONDUCTED IN 2013
AROUND HRPA MEMBERSHIP AND CONVICTION RATES UNDER
THE EMPLOYMENT STANDARDS ACT. IT FOUND THAT OUT OF
1,015 CONVICTIONS FOR ESA VIOLATIONS, NONE WERE LINKED
TO AN EMPLOYER WITH AN HRPA MEMBER ON STAFF.
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