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| Many Canadians think their fundamental values are under pressure because of some people coming to Canada. How do you address concerns, without being seen as being intolerant of others? This challenge encourages Canadians to look at values and changes from a different perspective.
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| PDF - People Speaking Different Languages at Work |
| There are many workplace challenges facing Canadians. From observations while working in the field of workplace and community human rights over many years, Stephen Hammond has chosen what he considers the top 10. This video transcript is intended to start a dialogue. Print out the text, have a discussion, and try to come to resolutions that can be helpful to your group. The best way to deal with workplace challenges is to talk about them in a respectful way.
This .pdf is Speaking Different Languages at Work - Workplace Challenge Two by Stephen Hammond. People speaking different languages at work can be one of the most contentious issues to address. If you want to avoid insult, indignation (even banner headlines) consider simple and common sense approaches to handle this sometimes, delicate issue.
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| PDF - Speaking about Culture, Race, Religion |
| There are many workplace challenges facing Canadians. From observations while working in the field
of workplace and community human rights over many years, Stephen Hammond has chosen what he
considers the top 10. This video transcript is intended to start a dialogue. Print out the text,
have a discussion, and try to come to resolutions that can be helpful to your group. The best way to
deal with workplace challenges is to talk about them in a respectful way.
This .pdf is: Speaking about Culture, Race, Religion - Workplace Challenge Three by Stephen Hammond
Concern of actually speaking about culture, race, religion, etc. for fear this will be seen as
bigoted. Canada is home to people from all over the world. We come from different cultures, and religions (or none at all) and we have various colours of skin. Instead of being afraid to discuss these differences, find sensible ways when and how these differences can be addressed.
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| PDF - Hiring a "Different" Person |
| There are many workplace challenges facing Canadians. From observations while working in the field
of workplace and community human rights over many years, Stephen Hammond has chosen what he
considers the top 10. This video transcript is intended to start a dialogue. Print out the text,
have a discussion, and try to come to resolutions that can be helpful to your group. The best way to
deal with workplace challenges is to talk about them in a respectful way.
This .pdf is: Hiring a "Different" Person - Discipline, Firing and the Human Rights Commission - Workplace - Challenge Four by Stephen Hammond/ Hiring a “different” person and if things go wrong, they can’t correct, discipline, or fire them, for fear of the employee going to the human rights commission. So many Canadians are “different” that it shouldn’t matter. Unfortunately, discrimination still exists for persons who are different from the grandparents of many Canadians. Find ways to ensure your workplace isn |
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| PDF - Not hiring women for fear they will go on parental leave. |
| There are many workplace challenges facing Canadians. From observations while working in the field
of workplace and community human rights over many years, Stephen Hammond has chosen what he
considers the top 10. This video transcript is intended to start a dialogue. Print out the text,
have a discussion, and try to come to resolutions that can be helpful to your group. The best way to
deal with workplace challenges is to talk about them in a respectful way.
PDF - Not hiring women for fear they will go on parental leave.
One of the biggest areas of discrimination against women in the workplace relates to women having
children, or the mere chance a woman may have children. You can find ways to address this issue and
to ensure women and men are given the same opportunities, regardless of parental status. |
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| PDF - Fear of Not Knowing How to Respond to an Insensitive Comment or Conduct at Work |
| There are many workplace challenges facing Canadians. From observations while working in the field
of workplace and community human rights over many years, Stephen Hammond has chosen what he
considers the top 10. This video transcript is intended to start a dialogue. Print out the text,
have a discussion, and try to come to resolutions that can be helpful to your group. The best way to
deal with workplace challenges is to talk about them in a respectful way.
PDF - Fear of Not Knowing How to Respond to an Insensitive Comment or Conduct at Work - Workplace
Challenge Six by Stephen Hammond.
This PDF is about the fear of not knowing how to respond to an insensitive comment or conduct at work (supervisors and managers won’t know what to do because they aren’t experts in human rights). Workplace human rights issues pop up everywhere. Sometimes they’re subtle. Other times not so subtle. Supervisors and others in the workplace don’t have to be experts in human right |
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| PDF - When an Employee Meets With Some Discrimination, this Employee Wants Someone Fired |
| There are many workplace challenges facing Canadians. From observations while working in the field
of workplace and community human rights over many years, Stephen Hammond has chosen what he
considers the top 10. This video transcript is intended to start a dialogue. Print out the text,
have a discussion, and try to come to resolutions that can be helpful to your group. The best way to
deal with workplace challenges is to talk about them in a respectful way.
PDF - When an Employee Meets With Some Discrimination, this Employee Wants Someone Fired - Workplace
Challenge Seven by Stephen Hammond.
This PDF is about when an employee meets with some discrimination, this employee wants someone fired (for example) and the employer doesn’t think firing is a reasonable response.
Many employers face the dilemma of protecting an employee who is discriminated or harassed while
ensuring any “punishment” is done within reason and the law. Sometimes it’s a balancing a |
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| PDF - Dealing with inappropriate comments at work |
| There are many workplace challenges facing Canadians. From observations while working in the field
of workplace and community human rights over many years, Stephen Hammond has chosen what he
considers the top 10. This video transcript is intended to start a dialogue. Print out the text,
have a discussion, and try to come to resolutions that can be helpful to your group. The best way to
deal with workplace challenges is to talk about them in a respectful way.
PDF - Top Ten Harassment Workplace Challenges
Getting leaders and employees throughout the organization to effectively and simply, deal with
inappropriate comments as they arise. i.e. getting people to stick their necks out.
If you have a workplace where employees feel comfortable to speak up and resolve issues on their
own, then you’re ahead of most places where people fear sticking their necks out. Consider some
approaches that can help to get everyone to address conflict and speak their mind…res |
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| PDF - Understanding the Need to "Accommodate" Employees when the Law Requires an Employer to do so |
| There are many workplace challenges facing Canadians. From observations while working in the field
of workplace and community human rights over many years, Stephen Hammond has chosen what he
considers the top 10. This video transcript is intended to start a dialogue. Print out the text,
have a discussion, and try to come to resolutions that can be helpful to your group. The best way to
deal with workplace challenges is to talk about them in a respectful way.
PDF - Understanding the Need to "Accommodate" Employees when the Law Requires an Employer to do so -
The “duty to accommodate” is one of the most difficult areas of human rights and employment law, not
just because it can be complex, but because it grates against many people’s ideals of “one rule for
all”. Yet most circumstances won’t be complex at all and a bit of understanding and education goes a
long way. |
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| PDF - Knowing that Similar Words or Actions Can Have Different Impact on People at Work |
| There are many workplace challenges facing Canadians. From observations while working in the field
of workplace and community human rights over many years, Stephen Hammond has chosen what he
considers the top 10. This video transcript is intended to start a dialogue. Print out the text,
have a discussion, and try to come to resolutions that can be helpful to your group. The best way to
deal with workplace challenges is to talk about them in a respectful way.
PDF - Knowing that Similar Words or Actions Can Have Different Impact on People at Work
If you like the idea of acknowledging and at times, celebrating our differences, then why do some
differences get us into trouble? Often people will look at things in different ways at work and that
can cause problems. Do you have to avoid “sex, politics and religion”? Find out how differences can
be resolved. |
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| PDF - Managing human rights at work: 101 practical tips to prevent human rights disasters |
| Stephen Hammond’s book, Managing human rights at work: 101 practical tips to prevent human rights disasters is still the only one of its kind. While some books are effective for lawyers and others just for issues of Harassment, Stephen’s book covers many of Canada’s human rights issues and makes the complex, understandable. That’s why many workplaces have bought dozens, hundreds and literally thousands of the book to make sure every one of their supervisors and managers has their own copy.
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| 5 Things a supervisor or manager must do in 2010 to avoid a human rights complaint |
| Stephen Hammond outlines the five things that managers and supervisors must do in 2010 to avoid a human rights complaint in the following areas:
1. Sexua harassment and sexual jokes in the workplace.
2. Religious accommodation.
3. Pregnancy
4. Speaking English at work
5. Intention and impact regarding harassment |