Vol.5 No.19 | September 20, 2012

News and notes

• I plan to quit. Do I have any ethical obligations to my staff and clients?
• My co-worker’s desk is a smelly garbage dump
• I’ve been promoted, and have to supervise a nightmare worker
• Ottawa warns of further job reductions
• Ottawa Hospital transcriptionists get layoffs warning
• Are we in for another doctor exodus to the U.S.?
• Students flock to programs with promise
• Companies planning average raises of 3.2 per cent in 2013
• New health program reducing nurses' sick calls
• Montreal police show Douglas Hospital patients their human side
• Staff pattern changes lead to layoffs notices
• Pioneering for-profit Shouldice hernia clinic sold for $14-million
• Ambulatory care director leaving Campbellford hospital
• More news here

From the HR Resources Database

Labour Force Ageing and Skill Shortages in Canada and Ontario
Julie Ann McMullin and Martin Cooke with Rob Downie

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Pete Crvenkovski to Director, Performance, Quality and Knowledge Management, Erie St. Clair LHIN, Chatham ON
Dr. Lisa Payne-Rojkjaer to Chief Medical Officer at Molecular Partners, Zurich, Switzerland
Julia Scott to Vice President Clinical Services & Chief Nursing Executive, Grey Bruce Health Services, Owen Sound, Ontario
Lisa Priest to Manager, Community Engagement and Patient Navigation at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ontario
Normand Rinfret to Director General and Chief Executive Officer, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec

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