Keeping Employees

Canadian employers are concerned about retaining employees. A number of factors are driving this concern.

• Hiring is expensive when one considers recruitment costs, low productivity of new employees during their orientation, and lost productivity of managers or employees providing orientation.
• Labour shortages
• Retirement of older workers

More employers are realizing the value of creating workplace programs as an incentive to retain employees. This page provides links to a variety of workplace programs for you to consider in your workplace.

	Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse Information regarding Substance Abuse Organizations, Employment Assistance Programs, Addiction Education Programs and Treatment Services available in Canada.
	Finders & Keepers Recruitment and Retention Strategies.
	Dependant Care Inititatives
	Reduction of Working Time
	Leave and Benefits
	Smoking in the Workplace
	Work-Life stress management
	Workplace Flexibility
	Workplace Health
	Human Resources Planning: Diagnostic This diagnostic is divided into ten sections, each with ten statements. You may choose to do as many sections as you wish. The sections include: Human Resource Planning , Recruitment, Employee Orientation, Employee Communication, Performance Appraisal, Job Definition, Training & Development, Compensation & Benefits, Employee Relations and Health & Safety.
	Workplace Health Strategies Bureau This site provides a needs assessment and other publications that will be of interest to employers including: A Guide To Developing And Implementing The Workplace Health System In Medium And Large Businesses and The Small Business Health Model - A Guide to Developing and Implementing the Workplace Health System in Small Business
	Workplace Health - Discovering the needs This is a sample questionnaire that is being used by Workplace Health System Participants.