Canadian Employment & HR Compliance Laws Certificate Course

Explore Canada's core employment laws, including provincial employment standards acts, federal rules, and the four key areas: employment standards, human rights, occupational health and safety, and labour relations.

Gain insight into Canadian occupational health and safety laws, including employer and employee duties, provincial frameworks, and how to ensure physical and psychological safety and prevent harassment.

Understand Canada’s unionized workplaces governed by the labour relations act and the collective bargaining agreement, including overtime and grievance processes, and how hr negotiates in good faith to foster culture.

Learn to hire legally and inclusively in Canada, minimizing legal risk by understanding hiring as a legal transaction, avoiding bias, and correctly classifying employees.

Learn to craft inclusive job postings and legally interview candidates in Canada by focusing on essential duties and outcomes. Use behavioral questions to assess skills and ensure fair opportunity.

Ensure fair recognition of foreign credentials for immigrants and avoid discrimination based on origin, accent, or Canadian experience, while upholding privacy, accommodation, and probation obligations.

Review job ads for legal risk and discriminatory language, document every hiring decision, and use the provided templates as you study module four on managing employment relationships in Canada.

Navigate Canada's employment relationship by mastering customized contracts and documentation, termination clauses, hours, and probation to prevent conflicts and protect the organization.

Set clear key performance indicators (KPIs) using the star method and document regular feedback to guide performance; apply progressive discipline with coaching and documented actions to protect due process.

Learn how to manage legally protected leaves under the employment standards act, including maternity, parental, sick, bereavement, jury duty, and related documentation and record-keeping.

Learn how to terminate employees legally and ethically in Canada by understanding with-cause and without-cause terminations, risk, documentation, and proper procedures.

Navigate notice periods under the esa and common law, including provincial variations and severance eligibility. Implement constructive dismissal awareness and conduct fair, well-documented termination meetings.

Learn post termination requirements in Canadian employment law, including final pay, record of employment filing, benefits cessation, and secure return of company property, with documentation to protect the organization.

Cultivate a culture of compliance by aligning leadership, policy, and daily practice to build trust and ethical workplaces. Avoid policy overload and inconsistent enforcement to keep compliance living and accessible.

Translate the law into practical policies and procedures, and empower HR and leadership to build a compliance-focused culture through training, coaching, and modeling ethical behavior in hybrid and remote work.

Lead with compliance as a living system embedded in onboarding and daily processes. Foster policy refreshers, feedback, and celebrating ethics to drive transformation.