July 2024 Workplace HR Recap & News - July 31, 2024

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July 2024 Employment Legislated Updates

• BC. Effective September, gig workers become contractor/employee hybrid workers.

July 2024 HR News

• Wells Fargo fires employees for faking work time with automated keystroke software.
• Report Exposes Decade of Mismanagement in B.C. Public Service Hiring.
• BC teachers launch human rights complaint against union. “Engaged in and enabled antisemitism”.
• Canadian Government compensation is keeping wage growth high.
• Dattani - new Human Rights Commissioner, troubling past of anti-Israel and antisemitic positions.
• AI predicted to save workers 12 hours per week by 2029.
• Canadian employers turn to automation and layoffs in response to wage hikes.
• Canadian economy sees modest growth in Q2 2024.
• Ontario sees 34% rise in privacy breaches.
• The Canadian unemployment rate increased to 6.4% in June from 6.2% in May.
• A quarter of bosses admit their return-to-office mandates were meant to make staff quit.

July 2024 Case Law RoundUp

• Ontario. Octapharma ordered to pay $105k for not accommodating care of worker’s ill mother.

Featured HR Article

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