All employers want a healthy and safe workplace. Safety at work can be negatively impacted by many factors, not the least of which is substance abuse. While 10% of the population self-identifies as having an active addiction, the reality of use is much higher and presents a real and present concern in the workplace. Drug and alcohol abuse in the workplace leads to injuries, decreased morale and lost time, to name a few. Employers’ costs related to human resources and health and medical benefits increase substantially, and the negative effect on employees impacts productivity and profitability in countless ways.

With the availability of medically authorized cannabis for medical purposes and with legalization of marijuana legislation just around the corner, Human Resource Professionals are being asked to ensure proper policies and programs are in place to address workplace health and safety concerns – for all employees.  Senior Leadership as well as employees will be looking to HR to guide them when substance use/abuse issues arise. What we do and how we do it will set precedent and needs to be established using logical processes reflective of best practices.

Learning Objectives

Join us for this workshop as presenter, Nadine Wentzell, prepares us as HR Professionals to address the critical issue of managing substance use and abuse in the workplace.  The session will cover the following:
- Recognition and how to address issues
- Workplace Drug and Alcohol Policy & Programs
- Employers rights and responsibilities under that policy
- When medical prescriptions cause safety concerns – What rights does the employer have?

Return to Work Programs

Processes to follow
- Writing a comprehensive agreement
- What to say to whom & when, and
- How to re-integrate for success/minimize relapse

Participants will leave this session with strategies to address substance use and abuse in the workplace, templates of example policies, and other resources to help guide HR Professionals through this topic.

Join us to explore the results and to look at the compensation trends and strategies we can expect for 2018.

In July 2017, Korn Ferry Hay Group conducted its annual compensation planning update for the upcoming year. Organizations were surveyed with an online questionnaire for their forecasts for base salary policy and base salary actual for the next twelve months. Seven hundred and twenty organizations responded: 461 industrial, 123 financial and 251 organizations from the broader public sector. Join us to explore the results and to look at the compensation trends and strategies we can expect for 2018.

Jamie will review several cases that have arisen over the past year here in New Brunswick as well as in other Provinces providing advice, tips and take-aways you, as HR Professionals, can implement in your workplace. Please join us for a high intensity half day session that will cover legal trends in some of the most challenging areas facing HR professionals today. 

We encourage you to bring your business leaders along. For those of you in unionized environments, why not invite your union leadership!

This notice is to inform the members of CPHR New Brunswick that the Annual General Meeting of CPHRNB Fredericton Chapter is scheduled for November 30th, 2017 at the Delta Fredericton.  The meeting will take place at 8:00am prior to our monthly professional development session featuring Cox & Palmer, Legal Trends in Human Resources.

Various reports will be given, including Financial, PD Events, Mentorship program, Students, CHRP and Marketing updates.

A call for nominations will be made for various Executive roles.  Your presence is requested for voting.