Career Connect - Policies for Employers

Position Posting Guidelines

Humber values our employer relationships and seeks to promote high quality Work-Integrated Learning (WIL) and employment opportunities to our students.

Job postings that meet our criteria must include:

• A summary of the position and key duties
• Whether this is a paid or unpaid work-integrated learning or employment opportunity
• Clear responsibilities and expectations of the role and incumbent applicant qualifications
• A brief description of the organization
• Location/address where the successful candidate will be working
• Payment that follows the provincial government minimum adult wage

Please review the chart below for more information regarding position remuneration:

Paid	Must include a salary for approval; a range can be provided if the exact rate is unknown. Exceptions are made based on the Employment Standards Act for positions providing room and board and for WIL opportunities.
Commission-based renumeration	Must include a base salary that complies with the Ontario Employment Standards Act minimum wage requirements, with commission payments being additional to the base salary. Commission-based positions will not be approved for WIL opportunities.
Unpaid	Unpaid work will not be approved for regular employment. For unpaid WIL positions, the posting will be reviewed and approved by the WIL Office in the relevant Academic Faculty. (See below for more information)
Volunteer	Must be for a registered non-profit organization or charity. If position is applicable to WIL, the opportunity will be further vetted by faculty-specific WIL Offices.

Humber will not accept postings that do not have adequate information about the role.

Postings will not be approved if they:

• Are in violation of provincial or federal laws. To learn more about the Employment Standards Act in the province of Ontario, please visit www.labour.gov.on.ca
• Do not offer a reasonable base salary (except approved unpaid WIL opportunities), or where solely commission pay is offered;
  • Commission pay should be equal to their commission earnings or minimum wage; whichever is greater.
• Involve unpaid or reduced pay for training with the exception of registered charities;
• Involve invoicing for work completed;
• Require the purchase of a service or product, a monetary deposit/fee or similar, as a condition of employment;
• Involve employment contracts or franchise contracts which charge a fee (e.g., certification fee, licensing fee, equipment purchase, an initial investment in a company);
• Are "club membership", distributorship or sales representative agency arrangements or other business opportunities which require up-front or periodic payments;
• Require recruitment of other members, sub-distributors, or sub-agents;
• Require work that is a multi-level marketing (MLM) in nature, or work for organizations that are pyramid-type or MLM in structure or forward pyramid schemes or similar programs;
• Are for the recruitment of replacement workers during a labor dispute;
• Are from organizations where there are currently no available openings;
• Are from third party recruiters who refuse to disclose relevant information (including the name, website, physical office location, or other required information) of the company for which they are recruiting.
  • Disclosure of the company name and information can be kept confidential
• Are for personal services.

Other Considerations

• If you are a Real Estate agent or broker, please contact our Real Estate Education Department at humber.ca/realestate/contact.html
• Positions posted by international companies will be considered on an individual basis, for example, based on Travel Advisories provided by the Government of Canada, and the nature of the work and work location.
• Home-Based Businesses will be considered on an individual basis. For more information, see Personal Services below.

Work-Integrated Learning (WIL)

Work-integrated learning (WIL) an educational approach that connects a student's academic studies with real-world work experience. WIL includes experiential learning opportunities like systematic training (apprenticeships) and structured work experience (Field Experience, Co-Op, Internship, Clinical). To learn more about the different WIL types and definitions, visit this link.

WIL opportunities are a critical component of a student's education at Humber Polytechnic. Placements, internships, and co-ops are supervised learning opportunities within the workplace and must be approved by the appropriate Faculty WIL Office. The responsibilities of the WIL position must align with the learning outcomes or academic guidelines to be approved. Positions that are not approved as valid WIL opportunities may be considered as opportunities for students in non-WIL streams.

Humber Polytechnic encourages employers to compensate students for their work. However, Humber recognizes this may not always be feasible for the employer. The Ministry of Labour does allow for unpaid Field Experiences if the student is completing their Field Experience for academic credit under a qualifying program approved by Humber Polytechnic. A paid work term is an arrangement whereby a student is an employee of the placement employer and is on the employer's payroll, earning at least minimum wage. Students on placement who receive wages from the placement employer are considered workers and must be provided with insurance coverage by the placement employer.

Unpaid placements include all scenarios where students do not receive compensation of any kind (e.g., unpaid work or volunteering), or receive compensation but not through payroll (e.g., lump sum payment(s) with no remittances, or an honourarium/stipend at the end of a period). Approval of unpaid WIL opportunities is at the discretion of the faculty-specific WIL Office. Employers who cannot pay students for WIL opportunities are encouraged to consider other options including an honorarium (a 'thank you' payment of nominal value for voluntary services) as part of the job posting.

Students who continue to be employed with you beyond their Field Experience should enter into a new employment contract. Humber encourages employers to pay students at that time or discuss remuneration with that student.

Please note that Humber Polytechnic only provides insurance coverage for registered students for the duration of their Field Experience opportunity.

Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) Coverage for students is provided by Humber Polytechnic for approved unpaid Field Experiences. Please contact one of our Work-Integrated Learning Offices for more details.

Unpaid Postings

The type and number of unpaid positions posted at a particular time are at the discretion of Humber Polytechnic. Postings which have multiple unpaid positions with the perceived intention of staffing the company through unpaid labour will not be approved. Examples of suitable honoraria include, but are not exclusive to:

• Paying for transportation (Presto card, gas, Uber)
• Meals
• Agreed monetary amount for the established hours

Volunteer Postings

Volunteer opportunities will be approved for organizations that are designated non-profit organizations (NPO) or registered charities within Canada. NPO's are defined as clubs, societies, or associations that are organized and operated solely for social welfare; civic improvement; pleasure or recreation and / or any other purpose except profit.

Please note that formal volunteering is an activity which is:

• Of benefit to the community and the volunteer;
• Always a matter of choice;
• A way for individuals or groups to address human, environmental and social needs;
• Not a substitute for paid work; and
• Not a replacement for paid workers nor constitutes a threat to the job security of paid workers.

Postings which are identified as volunteer, and which do not meet the criteria listed above, will be declined. Host organizations (employers) are responsible for the health and safety of any student volunteers who are recruited through our platform, including providing the appropriate WSIB coverage. Students recruited through Career Connect for volunteer positions are not covered under Humber’s WSIB Coverage policy, unless it is an approved WIL opportunity as described above. To learn more about guidelines of registered charities in Canada, please visit the Government of Canada website.

Virtual and Home-Based Businesses

Businesses with a residential business address may be posted at the discretion of the Humber's Advising & Career Services or Work-Integrated Learning offices. You may be contacted as part of the review and approval process to provide further information.

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Use of Career Connect

Employers agree not to make any unauthorized use of the Portal. Employers must respect the rights and integrity of others. As such, employers agree they will not:

• Post content or take any action on the Portal that infringes or violates someone else's rights or otherwise violates the law;
• Post content that is hate speech or hateful, harassing, incites harassment or advocates harassment of any group, company, or individual, or is defamatory, libelous, implicitly or explicitly offensive, vulgar, obscene, threatening, abusive, racist, discriminatory, of a menacing character, likely to cause annoyance, inconvenience, embarrassment, anxiety, contains nudity or graphic or gratuitous violence, contains pornographic, indecent or sexually explicit material of any kind, or contains material that exploits people in a sexual manner, incites or is violent or other manner, as determined by Humber Polytechnic in its sole discretion;
• Post anyone's identification documents or sensitive financial information on the Portal;
• Bully, intimidate, or harass any user;
• Develop or operate a third-party application containing alcohol-related, dating or other mature content (including advertisements) without appropriate age-based restrictions;
• Collect users' content or information, or otherwise access the Portal using automated means (such as harvesting bots, robots, spiders, or scrapers) without our prior permission;
• Contact other users in any manner or for any purpose other than that which is expected, solicit login information or other personal information from any other user, or send unsolicited mail or email, make unsolicited phone calls or send unsolicited faxes to any user.

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Refusal of Service and Account Termination

Humber Polytechnic reserves the right at all times (but will not have an obligation) to remove or refuse to post content on Career Connect, suspend or terminate employers and/or users, and reclaim usernames. Humber Polytechnic reserves the right to remove or refuse any employer at Humber's sole discretion. Reasons for refusal or removal may include but not limited to:

• Non-compliance with Humber's Employer Guidelines has occurred;
• Conducting unauthorized recruitment activities on campus or on Career Connect;
• Incorrect or misleading information has been provided;
• Humber Polytechnic is unable to verify or authenticate any information submitted;
• There are complaints from students or staff regarding unethical or discriminatory recruitment or employment practices, as protected under the Ontario Human Rights Code and its grounds;
• The posting is considered by Humber Polytechnic to not represent a viable opportunity for students and/or Alumni; and
• The behaviour or conduct of an employer in their involvement with the Polytechnic represents unethical recruitment conduct and/or is deemed contrary to Humber Polytechnic's policies and practices.

Humber also reserve the right to access, read, preserve, and disclose any information as Humber reasonably believes is necessary to:

• Satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process or governmental request,
• Enforce these Terms, including investigation of potential violations thereof,
• Detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues.

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Changes to Career Connect

Humber Polytechnic may terminate, change, suspend, or discontinue any aspect of the Career Connect Portal, including:

• Changing the availability of any features at any time without notice or liability;
• Changing any fees or charges for use of the Portal, including instituting new or increased fees or charges for the use of the Portal or any other related services or any features thereof;
• Removing, adding, modifying or otherwise changing any content on or from this Portal; or
• Imposing limits on certain features and services or restricting your access to parts or all of the Portal without notice or liability for any reason whatsoever.

Humber Polytechnic reserves the right but not the duty, in its sole discretion, to correct any errors or omissions in any portion of this Portal at any time without notice.

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Appendices and Related Documents

Humber encourages employers to review the following documents for your information, as referenced throughout:

1. Humber's Privacy Policy
2. Employment Standards Act
3. Workplace Safety and Insurance Coverage for Students on Unpaid Work Placements
4. List of Charities
5. Ontario Human Rights Code

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