Spring Tune-Up: Employment Standards Act 101

Spring Tune-Up: A Capacity Building Workshop Series for ENGOs

First up:

Employment Standards Act 101 (in English)
Wednesday, May 4th, 12-1:30 pm

with Janick Lejeune, Employment Standards Office
Department of Post-Secondary Education, Training and Labour (PETL)

Janick has been working as an Employment Standards Officer with the Government of New Brunswick for over a year. It is her job to interpret, enforce, and investigate potential violations of the Employment Standards Act. Janick has a bachelor's degree in Social Work from Université de Moncton and has worked with both the Department of Justice and Public Safety and the Horizon Health Network.

Janick's presentation will cover the following topics:

-The role of employment standards officers
-Labour and Employment Board
-Who is covered and who is exempt by the Employment Standards Act.
-Review of rules, benefits, leaves: rules of payment, end of employment, paid public holidays, vacation pay, etc.
-Other jurisdictions

If you have responsibilities for staffing and human resources management, this workshop should be well worth your time. A 30 minutes question and answer will follow Janick's presentation.

The same workshop will be offered in French on Thursday, May 5th, 12-1:30 pm.

Coming later this Spring:

May 18th, 12-2 pm - An introduction to effective facilitation, consensus-decision making, and conflict resolution (BI)
Date TBD - The Ins and Out of Charitable Status