Are you a US employer with operations in Canada? Welcome and bienvenue to this blog series written just for you. Our Canadian virtual employment law firm advises many US employers who have employees and contractors in Canada. I love this conversation. We’re neighbours who share so many similar cultural values, pop culture references and the world’s longest unsecured border. And yet there are fundamental differences in our countries’ respective workplace laws and workplace culture. It often catches our US employers by surprise and triggers very expensive moments in the employment relationship.
This series will cover these topics:
Canada by the Numbers
For US HR folks too polite to ask all the basic questions, here is a backgrounder on why Canada produces such a different workforce culture.
The US is 10x bigger by population and economy, yet Canada’s land mass is larger. Our countries share a historical immigration pattern, but geography has driven a very different result. This in turn has impacted our workplace cultures and worker skill sets.
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