A comprehensive list of key HR terms and definitions

The Canada Pension Plan (CPP) is a social insurance program developed to help Canadians save for...

The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) is the branch of the Canadian Federal Government which is...

Humi supports calendar feeds to show time off, birthdays, and anniversaries to different groups of...

At the end of an accrual year, employees may only be able to carryover a limited number of vacation...

A series of jobs and experiences that helps employees lead to short and long-term career goals...

Carriers are the providers of the insurance products that are a part of your company's benefits plan...

At the end of an accrual year, employees may be allowed to bring forward accrued time from the...

The individual who makes a group benefits claim...

Your co-pay is the amount of an insurance claim that the individual employee is responsible for, in...

A provision in a health insurance contract where the insurer and insured share the expenses under a...

Commissions are a form of variable-pay remuneration to your employees. Commissions are a good way to...

How an employee is paid, ranging from full time salary, to part time contract, to hourly pay. Humi...

Practices and policies undertaken by corporations intended to have a positive influence on the world...

Provides a benefit to be paid in the event you are diagnosed with a serious illness...

Also known as a multidisciplinary team or interdisciplinary team, is a group of people from...

In Humi, Custom Fields can be created in the system to support any data you need stored on employee...

An insurance deductible is the amount an individual needs to pay out of pocket for services before...

Employee benefits plans through Humi cover costs that you may incur at your dentist. These costs...

In Humi, departments are controlled at the organization level. Sample departments are 'Product'...

A person, typically a family member, who relies on the insured for financial support...

A fixed amount of insurance paid to you if your legal spouse or child passes away from natural cause...

An electronic transfer of money from one bank account to another and is typically used for regularly...

Employees who report directly to someone above them in the organizational hierarchy...

A physical or mental condition that renders an insured person incapable of performing the duties of ...

A response by an employer in light of an issue with an employee's poor performance or behaviour...

A professional fee charged by a pharmacist when dispensing a prescription...

Differences in the lived experiences and perspectives, and reality of people that may include race...

Employer Health Tax (EHT) is a payroll tax on wages paid to employees at your company. The EHT...

Employment Insurance (EI) is a federal government program which provides temporary income support to...

Your regular rate of pay from your employer. This may include regular bonuses and overtime pay...

An individual who is paid to work for a person or company...

An EAP offers private and confidential counselling services to assist employees coping with personal...

Optional, non-wage compensation provided to employees in addition to their normal wages or salaries...

A series of experiences that happen during the employee journey. This includes everything the...

The measure of workers' contentedness with their job...

The total number of employees who leave an organization over a certain time period...

Achieving parity in policy, process, treatment and outcomes for underrepresented and marginalized...

Also known as D&I Strategy or DEI Strategy, a plan of action or roadmap to achieve company-wide...

Also known as D&I Policy or DEI Policy, a workplace policy that requires everyone at the company...

An active state of awareness, and willingness to address equity issues...

A meeting to collect information about an employee’s motivations to leave the organization. They’re...

Benefits that are rated based on your group's past claims experience, typically in the realm of heal...

In Ontario, employees are entitled to protected, unpaid leaves of absence for reasons outlined under...

Calendar dates designated by the government as holidays. Non-essential, federal government offices a...

Humi supports multiple types of feedback: Public (visible to anyone), Private (visible only to you...

An employee is considered as working full-time hours if they're required to work over 30 hours per...

Humi allows you to track your applicants in the recruiting module through a Trello style Kanban...

With Humi, you can conduct employee-net-promoter-score surveys. This will help you keep a pulse on...

Humi supports legally compliant digital signatures on documents displayed on employee's computers an...

In Humi, you can set up goals for your employees and teams. These goals are comprised of milestones...

The total amount of compensation received before any deductions or taxes are taken...

Total compensation for one time period that consists of regular pay earnings, one-time payments owed...

A benefit plan that provides insurance coverage to a group of people which helps employees cover the...

The technology that businesses use to combine a number of tasks, systems, and processes related to...

HCSAs are an affordable way to help plan members obtain services they require without the hardships...

For most employees in Canada, holiday pay is equal to 1/20th of the wages (excluding overtime pay)...

An employee that is paid for the amount of hours they work. The employee is typically paid a set...

The amount of pay an employee receives for every hour of work performed...

The department of an organization responsible for all matters related to employees. This includes...

A system that manages and organizes people-related data, such as employee information (e.g. birth...

A workplace that mixes in-office and remote work...

Inclusion is an active, intentional, and continuous process to address inequities in power and...

A person, business, or corporation that provides goods or services to an employer according to the...

Humi supports a long list of integrations and partners. Tools you use every day like Google Calendar...

“Invisible disability” or “hidden disability” is an umbrella term for disabilities that are not...

A beneficiary that cannot be changed by you without their consent...

Humi gives your company a public Job Board for potential applicants to apply through. This is a...

A summary of the general tasks, duties, and functions of a position. It typically details the...

The Job Post is the fundamental unit of the Job Board. Humi allows you to publicly display...

In Humi, the employee journey is a tab on the employee profile which shows a history of changes...

If you have more than a few employees are called to Jury Duty each year, you may consider creating a...

The process of organizing, using, evaluating, centralizing, and sharing knowledge in an organization...

Examples include Vacation, Sick, or Personal. Each leave type may accrue at a different rate, and...

If you become 'Totally Disabled' (per the definition and period outlined in your contract), you will...

This is paid through employment insurance (EI). This type of job-protected leave lasts up to 15 week...

The use of medical or health information in the evaluation of an applicant for coverage, typically...

Milestones in Humi are located under your team's goals, and can be binary, financial, percentage...

The lowest wage per hour that a worked can be paid as mandated by federal law...

Unfortunately, challenges with pregnancies can arise. In fact, this Global News article highlights...

Humi supports negative time off balances. This allows employees to take vacation time which they...

The 9-Box is a succession planning and employee development tool, to assess employee performance and...

The amount of insurance available without providing medical evidence to the insurance company...

Objectives and Key Results' is a framework to help companies stay aligned towards a singular company...

The process of terminating an employee from your company. Often this process comes with gathering...

The process of bringing a new employee into your company. Often this process comes with signing an...

Humi supports 1-on-1 performance reviews, between a manager and their employee. Managers or admins...

Additional life insurance available to purchase on an optional basis...

An organizational chart is a diagram showing who reports to who at a company. Most commonly it is...

When a company contracts a task or defined portion of work to an external professional, company, or...

In Humi, a time off override is a one-time reset of an employee's time off balance, setting days use...

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Every employee in Canada is legally entitled to take some time away from work, and still be paid the...

Paramedicals are a group of services covered in benefits plans that usually consists of Physiotherapy...

This job-protected leave is paid through Employment Insurance (EI). For mothers who take pregnancy...

Companies can offer a range of additional benefits here. Typically, employers will choose a salary...

For employees who are bringing pets home, Humi offers paid time off to help with the transition...

A grouping of employees for payroll purposes, based on commonalities such as employee type and pay...

A recurring time frame over which employee work hours are recorded to determine their compensation...

A pay stub (paystub), or pay slip, is a document which outlines the breakdown of an employee's pay...

A document given to an employee with each paycheck that provides details of their total wages for...

The process of providing compensation to employees in an organization...

A payroll register is a table of data, for a given pay period, that lists your employee's hours work...

The process of communication and feedback between supervisors/managers and their employees to...

A formal assessment that evaluates an employee's work performance...

The tax imposed on the wages an individual person earns throughout the year...

Most commonly used as a blanket leave type to help employees when they must leave work for personal ...

Benefits that are rated based on group demographics, typically Life, AD&D, Dependent Life, LTD...

In Humi, this is the 'role' an employee has at a company. Several employees may have the same...

In Canada, you’re entitled to up to 17 weeks of unpaid, job-protected leave...

Premium is the monthly amount your company will pay to maintain its benefits plan. The cost is based...

In Canada, there are thirteen public holidays: New Year's Day, Good Friday, Easter Monday, Victoria...

A term used in insurance to describe a life situation that deems one eligible to make changes to the...

An ROE (Record Of Employment) is an official form that an employee needs in order to apply for...

A Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP) is a Canadian savings account which helps encourage...

The amount paid for a medical service in a geographic area based on what providers in the area usual...

In Humi, records are private text entries attached to a given employee profile. The visibility of...

Software used by recruiters, talent acquisition, and hiring managers to manage and optimize the...

Any money transferred from a company to an employee in return for expenses incurred by the employee ...

The act of paying the government the money owed in taxes (of various types) for each employee's...

An employee that works primarily from locations other than the centralized workplace office...

A workplace that offers flexibility by allowing remote work instead of work done from a centralized ...

Proportional and meaningful participation at all levels of an institution...

If a leave type is requestable, it means that employees can make requests themselves. Otherwise...

The distribution of resources that help reduce inequitable gaps for people and groups...

The ability of an organization to retain its employees and prevent turnover through strategies such ...

An organization's ability to prevent employee turnover, or the number of people who leave their job ...

Humi supports performance reviews in any configuration - one-to-many, one-to-one, etc. Managers or a...

A beneficiary that can be changed at any time...

In Humi, Roles & Permissions is a section where you can create custom roles, and define custom...

An employee that receives compensation based on a fixed amount throughout the year...

Humi supports multiple types of salaries, whether yearly, hourly, or contract / off-cycle. Talk to...

Temporary work to meet an organization's needs during a specific time of the year...

Individual healthcare coverage bought by a self-employed person for themselves (and their family, if...

If an employee becomes ill or injured, and cannot perform job duties as a result, they are eligible ...

Most commonly used for taking a day off of work when an employee is under the weather. Typically on ...

A confidential 9-digit number needed to work and be paid and/or to access government programs and be...

In Humi, this is the state an employee is in, and it is defined by the system. Possible values are...

Also known as “shortened Fridays” or “flexible Fridays.” Depending on how your company operates, you...

Humi supports surveys of employees to ask them any set of questions. Managers or admins can create...

The T4 is a tax form in Canada used for proof of salaried income from a company, generated each tax ...

A Tax Free Savings Account (TFSA) is a savings account your employees can use to invest their...

The process of recruiting, tracking, and interviewing new employees for a company...

The challenge of attracting, recruiting, and retaining top candidates that started in the late 90s a...

The difference between premiums received by an insurance carrier and the claims they have paid...

The amount that is automatically deducted from an employee's post-tax earnings. This may include...

A taxable benefit is some extra form of compensation given to the employee by the employer, which...

An employee who is leaving, or has already left the company. They may be leaving voluntarily, or may...

A letter from an employer to an employee that provides formal notice and communicates details of the...

Formerly known as the Working Income Tax Benefit (WITB), a refundable tax credit that helps...

A company that administers all or part of a group benefits plan (enrolling, billing, premium collect...

A 360 degree performance review (sometimes called 360-feedback) is a process whereby an employee's...

In Humi, time off requests can be made by employees, or recorded manually by admins or managers...

The process through which companies record working hours of hourly employees to ensure they are...

Time in lieu is time off from work which an employee is granted for having worked outside of normal ...

Some employers value professional development and have policies in place to encourage growth in...

The percentage of employees leaving a company within a certain time period...

Most commonly used for taking a break from work. Taking time to rest and relax. In Ontario, the...

Vacation Pay is a government mandated form of guaranteeing that employees can either take vacation...

Deductions from payroll to cover employees in the case that they become injured at work. The Workpla...

A payment made by an employer to an employee for work done, usually on an hourly or daily basis...

Time off leave types may include a waiting period, in which the employee may not request time off...

A Wellness Spending Account is an employer funded account available per employee that employees...

A person paid to work for an organization, also known as an employer or contractor...

Workers' Compensation protects employees from financial hardship which ensues, after work-related in...

The seven, consecutive 24-hour periods established by an employer that make up a calendar week...

Year-to-date (YTD) payroll is the amount of money your company has spent on payroll since the start ...