The HR Management Standards: Second edition

The HR Management Standards have been revamped based on feedback the HR Council has received from employers in the nonprofit sector since its initial launch in 2009. This second edition contains a new standard and streamlines existing content for better clarity.
Throughout the HR Management Standards document or while making use of the online interactive tool, organizations will also find additional content in the standard details, implementation considerations and links to resource sections. These are changes that should better support employers in their understanding and use of the standards.
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Hiring Immigrants Ottawa: 2012 employee excellence awards
Call for entries
Hire Immigrants Ottawa is accepting entries for the 2012 Employer Excellence Awards from employers in the National Capital Region. In its fifth year, the awards recognize local employers for their innovative policies and practices in the recruitment and retention of skilled immigrants into their organizations.
The Awards will be presented at the Employer Council of Champions (ECC) Summit in March 2012. This event is attended by senior executives and human resources professionals from leading Ottawa businesses and organizations, civic leaders, key stakeholders and the media.
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Trends & Issues:
Moving forward with nonprofit labour market information
Since its inception in 2005, the HR Council for the Nonprofit Sector (HR Council) has been working on various labour issues relevant to nonprofits. One key interest of the HR Council is to improve the labour market information (LMI) available on and for nonprofits in Canada. Most recently, this has included a project entitled Developing Labour Market Information for the Nonprofit Sector. This project has led to the development of recommendations and goals for improving LMI for nonprofits. It also included an examination of existing data available on nonprofits and the possibilities for its further use.
As with most national statistics and information, the majority of the currently available data comes from Statistics Canada. While finding LMI on nonprofits using business and labour surveys often proves difficult, the Canadian System of National Accounts provides data on these institutions. This report provides an overview of these data and recommendations about moving forward with data development based on the findings of the HR Council’s LMI project and the discussions of a stakeholder panel.
The audience for data on nonprofits is varied, including researchers, policy-makers, as well as nonprofit institutions. Each of these groups will have varying levels of expertise in working with data and will want the data for different applications. As such, determining a single “end use” is difficult. These groups do, however, have some shared needs and expectations regarding data on nonprofits that can be used to determine its relevance and value.
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