Employer Terms and Guidelines

User Information

The Humber College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning is committed to fostering a respectful and inclusive culture in which all members of the College community study, work and live free from discrimination and harassment. This commitment to equity, diversity, inclusion and accessibility (EDIA) extends to the important partnerships we foster with employers across our institution. Everyone has the right to fair and equitable treatment in employment, in accordance with the Ontario Human Rights Code and The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, including employees, volunteers, and independent contractors, and we value the opportunity to work with our employers to ensure that common principles of EDIA are embodied in your workplaces.

As an employer, when you register for Humber's job portal, CareerConnect (hereafter referred to as "the Site"), within Advising & Career Services at Humber, you will be asked to provide Humber College with certain information including, without limitation, a valid email address and website. Other contact information such as social media handles or LinkedIn profiles may be considered.

In addition to the terms and conditions that are set forth in the College's Access and Privacy Policy, you understand and agree that Humber College may disclose to third parties, on an anonymous basis, certain aggregate information contained in your registration application (e.g., reporting on the number of employers that are actively recruiting on CareerConnect but would not list names). Humber College will not disclose your name, address, e-mail address or telephone number to any third party without your prior consent, except as permitted or required by law [Canada's Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act ("PIPEDA") as well as Ontario's Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act ("FIPPA")]. Contact careerconnect@humber.ca if you have questions about this policy.

All employers using CareerConnect will only submit organization and personal details as well as job posting details that are accurate, true, not misleading, or deceptive in any manner, and fully in compliance with all applicable federal, provincial, and local laws (including laws prohibiting employment discrimination). All employer postings must be for actual opportunities in compliance with all applicable federal, provincial, and local laws and:

May not contain any form of advertisement, promotion, or endorsement, other than promotion of the job itself;
Require any form of upfront payment or referrals to other candidates; or
Represent job postings that direct the user to a website other than the employer's website.

All employers are solely responsible for their own hiring determinations.

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Job Posting Guidelines

Humber College will not accept job postings that:

Do not have an adequate job description, explanation of job duties (roles and responsibilities), or applicant qualifications;
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
Pay less than the provincial government minimum adult wage, with exception based on ESA standards for positions providing room and board;
Do not offer a reasonable base salary (except approved unpaid work placements or co-ops), or where solely commission pay is offered; 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; or
Are from organizations where there are currently no available openings;
Are from an employer that refuses to disclose the name of the company for which they are recruiting (third party recruiters - disclosure of the company name will be kept confidential);
Have multiple unpaid positions with the intention of staffing the company with only unpaid staff

Other Considerations

If you are a Real Estate agent or broker, please contact our Real Estate Education Department at humber.ca/realestate/contact.html
If you are from the transportation industry, please contact our Transportation Training Centre at humber.ca/education-training-solutions/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 Placements/Internships/Co-ops

Work-integrated learning (WIL) is a pedagogical practice whereby students come to learn from the integration of experiences in educational and workplace settings (Billet, 2009). Work-integrated learning (WIL) includes experiential learning opportunities like systematic training (apprenticeships) and structured work experience (work placement, co-op, internship, clinical). To learn more about the different WIL types and definitions, visit https://humber.ca/work-integrated-learning/what-is-wil

WIL opportunities are a critical component of a student's education at Humber College. Placements, internships, and co-ops are supervised learning opportunitint'es within the workplace and must be approved by the appropriate Faculty WIL office. The responsibilities of the job posting must be aligned with the learning outcomes of the course in order to be approved. Positions that are not approved as valid WIL opportunities may be considered as volunteer or unpaid opportunities.

While Humber College encourages employers to compensate students for their work within the employers' organization, this may not always be feasible for the employer. The Ministry of Labour does allow for unpaid internships as long as the individual working is doing so for credit under a program approved by the College. When posting an unpaid internship, we encourage employers who are not able to pay a wage to consider other options including an honorarium (a 'thank you' payment of nominal value for voluntary services) as part of the job posting. We strongistry of Labour?ly encourage employers to pay students who continue working with the company beyond the time period of their placement, if an opportunity becomes available. Please note that Humber College only provides insurance coverage for registered students for the duration of their placement opportunity. For more information, please review the Workplace Safety and Insurance Coverage for Students on Unpaid Work Placements. Please contact one of our Work-Integrated Learning offices for more details.

Unpaid Job Postings

Humber College encourages employers to compensate students for their work within the employers' organization. When posting an unpaid job opportunity, we encourage employers who are not able to pay a wage to consider other options, including an honorarium (a 'thank you' payment of nominal value for voluntary services), or room and board where appropriate, as part of the job. The type and number of unpaid positions posted at a particular time are at the discretion of Humber College and its affiliated Work-Integrated Learning departments.

Volunteer Job Postings

Volunteer opportunities will be accepted for posting if the organization is a designated non-profit organization (NPO) or a registered charity 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.

Job postings which are identified as volunteer, and which do not meet the criteria listed above will be declined. Host organizations are responsible for the health and safety of any students who are recruited through our platform. Volunteers recruited through Humber College's CareerConnect job portal that are not considered WIL opportunities as described above are not covered under the College's Workplace Safety and Insurance Coverage policy. WSIB coverage should be provided by the organization for any volunteers who are recruited. If you are not a registered Charity or Non-Profit organization with the Federal Government. Please review the website: apps.cra-arc.gc.ca/ebci/hacc/srch/pub/dsplyBscSrch

Personal services such as in- home childcare, homecare for seniors and people with disabilities, wedding photography and videography, household maintenance, landscaping or interior design may be posted at the discretion of the Advising & Career Services and the Work-Integrated Learning offices. You may be contacted prior to approval to provide more information.

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Use of CareerConnect

You agree not to make any unauthorized use of the Site. You must respect the rights and integrity of others. You will not:

Post content or take any action on the Site 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 College in its sole discretion;
Post anyone's identification documents or sensitive financial information on the Site;
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 Site, 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

We reserve the right at all times (but will not have an obligation) to remove or refuse to post content on CareerConnect, suspend or terminate users, and reclaim usernames. Humber College reserves the right to remove or refuse any employer conducting recruitment activities on campus or on CareerConnect included but not limited to:

Non-compliance with these Terms and Conditions has occurred;
Incorrect or misleading information has been provided;
Humber College is unable to verify or authenticate any information you submit;
There are complaints from students or college personnel regarding unethical or discriminatory recruitment or employment practices. To learn more about the Ontario Human Rights Code and its protected grounds, please visit http://www.ohrc.on.ca;
The employment opportunity is considered by Humber College to not represent a viable work opportunity for students; and
The behavior or conduct of an employer in their involvement with the college represents unethical recruitment conduct and/or is deemed contrary to Humber College's policies and practices.

We also reserve the right to access, read, preserve, and disclose any information as we reasonably believe is necessary to

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

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Changes to CareerConnect

The College may terminate, change, suspend or discontinue any aspect of CareerConnect, including

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

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

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