SERVICES / HR ADVISORY
HR support that keeps you compliant and keeps good people
Most growing employers don't need a full-time HR department. They need someone who knows Alberta's rules, can write a policy that holds up, and can help when a hire, a complaint or a termination goes sideways.
Where HR Advisory fits
HR touches five of the six stages of the worker life cycle. Training and Development is led by our Leadership and Coaching practice, and we work alongside it.
1. Recruitment and Selection
Job descriptions, structured interviews and placement through Culture Connect.
2. Onboarding and Orientation
Policies, the employee handbook and 30-60-90 day plans.
3. Training and Development
Led by our Leadership and Coaching practice, with HR support on records and policy.
4. Performance and Growth
Reviews, discipline, conduct and conflict.
5. Retention and Engagement
Pay equity reviews and stay interviews.
6. Transition or Departure
Terminations, restructuring and exit interviews.
HR services
Practical help with the people side of running a business, written to current Alberta rules.
Recruitment and placement
Job descriptions, competency-based interview guides and offer letters. When you need candidates, our Culture Connect service finds and onboards them.
Policies and employee handbooks
A handbook your managers can actually use, written to current Alberta rules and your way of working.
Employment Standards compliance
Hours, overtime, vacation, leaves and termination pay checked against the Employment Standards Code.
Performance and discipline
Review processes, documented coaching and progressive discipline that hold up if a decision is challenged.
Workplace conduct and conflict
Harassment and violence prevention, complaint investigations and conflict resolution between staff.
Terminations and restructuring
Planning, notice, documentation and the conversation itself, handled with care for the person leaving and the team staying.
How it starts: the HR compliance assessment
The first conversation is free. The assessment itself is a paid engagement, scoped and quoted after that call.
1. A free 30-minute session
We learn how your business runs, how many people you employ and what is worrying you. No charge.
2. Document review
We read your handbook, policies, contracts and records against current Alberta legislation.
3. Findings
You get a short report ranking each gap by risk, with what to fix first.
4. Your choice
Fix it in-house with our notes, or have us do the work. No obligation either way.
The rules we work to
General information, not legal advice. We work with your lawyer where a matter needs one.
Employment Standards Code
Pay, hours, leaves and termination notice.
Alberta Human Rights Act
Hiring questions, accommodation and discrimination.
Occupational Health and Safety Act
Harassment and violence prevention duties.
Personal Information Protection Act (PIPA)
Employee records and privacy.
Need people, not just policies?
Hiring help and short online courses that back up the policies we write.
CULTURE CONNECT
Placement that fits your team
Culture Connect is our placement service. We find candidates who fit your work and your team, then help you onboard them properly so they stay.
RELATED ONLINE COURSES
Train your team on the basics
Conflict Resolution in the Office
Canadian Harassment, Bullying, and Workplace Violence Prevention
Effective Communication Skills
Delegating Work
Ethics and Code of Conduct
Find out where your HR practices stand
Start with a free 30-minute conversation. If a full HR compliance assessment would help, we scope and quote it then. Assessments are paid, and you will know the fee before anything starts.
Prefer to call? 587 253 2020
Or email ron@actionconsultants.ca