Direct childcare and programs that make family care responsibilities easier to achieve come in many different forms in the public institutions and private companies that are taking on the more responsibility for helping their employees with work-family issues. For instance, “some organizations directly subsidize daycare centres or private home daycare placements. Others underwrite the cost
First, it is important to recognize that “every company, every organization, already has an ethic of some kind, even if it’s unwritten” (The Corporate Ethics Monitor, Volume 1, Issue 1, page 14). This ethic is represented in the company’s corporate culture, which describes and regulates the behaviour of its employees and managers. Does the organization
Ombudsmen can address internal (staff) or external (client and customer) problems. Internal ombudsmen – the more common of the two – serve two major functions in a corporation: they provide impartial advice to employees with all types of issues and dilemmas and they assist management with cases of legal and ethical violations of codes of
David Nitkin, EthicScan’s President, draws attention to the way this Supreme Court decision highlights differences between the law, ethics, and morality. The Justices affirm the requirement in law that, in jurisdictions which have Consent and Capacity Boards, physicians must get consent for removing life-sustaining interventions, like ventilators and feeding tubes. Nitkin Notes: “Family and human
Ethical issues are common in health care because the stakes are high and values regularly come into conflict when decisions must be made. Differentiation between minimizing harm, doing no harm, and doing good often needs to be assessed. In the course of provision of these health care services, problems or disagreements will occasionally arise with respect
A family issues consultant is a new form of consulting that came on the market in the late 1980s in order to serve the needs of large and medium sized corporations who wanted to provide childcare, eldercare, concierge, and other family related support for their employees. Family consultants provide direct counselling to employees, make family
Employment equity programs are used in Canada to promote equality in the workplace. They tend to focus on integrating four under-represented groups in Canadian society: women, visible minorities, aboriginals, and persons with disabilities. In order to determine whether an organization is properly using an employment equity program, it is important to look at the type
