Resolution Mediation

Katherine Padilla came to Canada from the Philippines last April and soon found work — in the United States. And she doesn’t have to leave her Toronto-area home to go to work.
Padilla says she works 40 to 50 hours a week doing human resources, administrative and social media work for several U.S. clients while looking [...]

Hundreds of advocates for police officers, firefighters, the arts, senior programs, AIDS services and other municipal programs turned out Wednesday morning to urge the Los Angeles City Council not to cut 1,000 jobs to balance the budget.
With city officials looking for ways to close a $208-million gap, Council President Eric Garcetti said that council members had received [...]

Consensio, a leading conflict management and workplace mediation provider, today announces the launch of its Conflict Clinic.

[UKPRwire, Thu Jan 28 2010] Consensio, a leading conflict management and workplace mediation provider, today announces the launch of its Conflict Clinic. This free interactive service will allow HR professionals to access information on informal conflict resolution [...]

Transformative learning focuses on the relationship between personal change and learning. It involves changing frames of reference, habits and established patterns of behaviour and usually results from a “disorienting dilemma” (a life crisis, or major transition, such as job loss, illness, divorce).
This type of learning requires taking risks and challenging one’s attitudes and assumptions. The [...]

The character of work is changing so quickly that it’s hard to follow, let alone understand.
The study of work is changing along with it, leading McMaster University to expand its labour studies
program into a school of labour studies, a change that is to be announced officially at a reception today.
The school will be the first [...]

Are the qualities required to successfully start a good career the same as those required to move an employee up the management ladder? Many organisations can relate to this: a bright and promising employee, with excellent credentials, who after several years of making admirable progress up the career ladder, begins to nose-dive and deteriorate in [...]

Less than two weeks into the new year, two workplace shootings grabbed national headlines. On Jan. 12, a disgruntled ex-employee barged into a truck rental company near Atlanta and opened fire, killing two and wounding three. On Jan. 7, an employee at a transformer manufacturing plant in St. Louis killed three and injured five as [...]

All too often we shy away from evaluating and holding humanitarian efforts accountable to their project goal. We want to assume that do-gooders are doing good, though even with the best of intentions reconciliation can be elusive.
In the absence of clear metrics for success, comparable across post-conflict zones, the profession of peace-building can be cynically [...]

As people age, they often forget the vast differences between child and adult.
There are, of course, the physical differences, perhaps most clearly demonstrated in the disparate sizes. A 5-year-old looking up at a 30-year-old, for example, is not unlike the typical, 5-foot-9-inch, adult male looking up at one of the NBA’s 7-footers. It can be [...]

What Is the Public Safety Employer-Employee Cooperation Act (PSEECA)?

The act would require all state and local governments to collectively bargain with public safety employees–police officers, firefighters, and emergency medical personnel.
States would be forced to permit bargaining over wages, hours, and all terms and conditions of employment.
States would have to provide a dispute resolution mechanism, such [...]