January 10, 2012
Employment Standards
What’s New in 2012? 
Employment Standards will be returning to Winkler on Wednesday, January 18, 2012, with a presentation on the 4 changes to the Employment Standards Code effective January 1, 2012.
They include;
- Allowing Employment Standards to consider applications for Averaging Permits from all industries
- Allowing employees and employers to enter into individual flex-time agreements
- Allowing compensatory time off for General Holiday in climate-controlled agricultural operations
- Changes to termination rules, changing the exceptions for notice on termination from “Willful Misconduct” to “Just Cause”
*In Addition, presentation on the Foreign Worker Recruitment Act.
INVITATION: All Businesses and Employees
DATE: Wednesday, January 18, 2012
LOCATION: Day’s Inn & Suites, Conference Room, Winkler, MB
TIME: 9:45 – 11:45 a.m.
COST: $15.00 (Refreshments provided)
PRESENTER: Ian Dunne, Employment Officer
RSVP: by Monday, January 16th, 2012
To Winkler & District Chamber of Commerce @
chamber@winkleronline.com or by phone at 325-9758
For information on employment standards call 1-800-821-4307 or 204-945-3352
Or visit www.gov.mb.ca/labour/standards/.
Safe Business is Smart Business
Winkler & District & Morden & District Chambers of Commerce, in partnership with 1 Life Workplace Safety & Health presents a Critical Educational Workshop for all Manitoba Employers.
DATE: Tuesday, February 7, 2012
COST: $25.00 (Lunch included)
TIME: 11:30 a.m. – 2:30 p.m.
LOCATION: Heartland Inn, 851 Main Street, Winkler, MB
RSVP: No Later than February 6, 2012
Click Here for poster
To Winkler & District Chamber of Commerce: @ chamber@winkleronline.com or by phone at 325-9758
To Morden & District Chamber of Commerce: @ marketing@mordenchamber.com or by phone at 822-5630
ThirdQuarter
The ThirdQuarter project would like you to know of an important change in how we provide you with information and support as a registered user.
Effective 2 January 2012, we have centralized all of our support at our national office.
Local community coordinators will no longer be available to provide you with support.
If you have questions about the project. in particular, we are here to help firms and organizations with registering and posting jobs. You can either call us at 204.926.8592 or email us at anabelle.dizon@thirdquarter.ca. www.thirdquarter.ca
New Chamber Businesses
Southland Nail & Day Spa
Donny Hoang
204-331-3311
V.I.P Catering
Val Wiebe
204-325-9827
