Strategic Human Resource Management Plan: Pet Food Business in Quebec

This report outlines a comprehensive human resource plan for a new pet food business in Quebec, addressing key aspects such as manpower requirements, cost assessments, and future HR planning. The plan details the necessary roles, including cooks, kitchen assistants, an information technologist, and a veterinary nutritionist, along with their respective responsibilities and compensation. It considers the legal and regulatory framework, including the Animal Welfare and Society Act and the Civil Code of Quebec, ensuring compliance with labor laws regarding employee benefits like vacation, maternity, and paternity leave. The report also analyzes the initial and ongoing costs associated with operations, including delivery, employee salaries, and the implementation of a file system. Furthermore, it emphasizes the importance of strategic HR planning, focusing on assessing current staffing, forecasting future needs, and developing strategies to attract and retain qualified employees. The report highlights the need for skills inventory, self-evaluation, and continuous HR management to align the organization's demand for quality staff with the available market supply.

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Human Resource Plan
The strategic human resource planning process begins with the assessment of current
staffing that includes whether it fits the requirements of the customers and then it moves on to
forecasting of future staffing needs that are based on the organization goals. The strategic human
planning process are maintained by the following steps:
Rules and regulations for the new pet’s food business in Quebec
The business are required to maintain the business operations as per the Animal Welfare
and Society Act determined by the Quebec society. The state considers it essential to intervene in
order to establish the effective legal and administrative regime for ensuring the animal welfare
and safety (Darcy p 91-113). Thus the business will make contract with the veterinary
nutritionist for checking the profile of the pets and the ingredients for analyzing and
recommending the receipts that will fit best to the pets.
The business are required to maintain the workplace security of the employees as per the
rules and regulations set by the Canadian government. The business are required to recruit the
individual as per the Civil Code of Quebec 1994 (Katherine and Geoff Urton p 293-302). Under
a contract of employment, the employer is bound not only to allow for the performance of the
work and to pay the remuneration agreed upon (Angela).
Required manpower
The manpower required for the organization are two cooks that is one for part time and
one for full time. There are two kitchen assistants that is one for part time and one for full time.
Kitchen assistant (full time)
The kitchen assistant who will be appointed for the full time. The required skills and
responsibility for the assistant will look after the meals provided for the dogs and will also ensure
that the foods will be prepared by maintaining the hygiene and the cleanliness of foods
provided.
Kitchen assistant (part time)

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The kitchen assistant who are appointed for the part time will only work for serving the dinner
for the dogs. The part time one’s responsibility will be fixed that is of dinner but the one who is
working for full time are required to provide the meals and the additional foods required for each
dog profile.
Information technologist
The specific expertise will be required by the business that is the information technologist who
will be appointed by the business based on the one-time payment for creating a website for the
business and for determining the maintenance time and cost. The information technologist who
will look after the development of the website are required to make the website attractive for
attracting more and more customers. The website should have the options through which the
customers can purchase the product or can place order for the products.
Veterinary nutritionist
Another specific veterinary nutritionist will be appointed on the basis of contracts that is for
each profile those are being created under a sub contract. The veterinary nutritionist are required
to look after the details and the case history for every profile before assuring the food diet for
each profile. They would be paid in the contractual manner that is for each profile he will be
paid.
Cost assessment
The business will involve a car for the delivery of the food at the initial stage of business.
The business will involve a cost of $ 16,500 for delivering the food at the initial and these are
required to be changed by the introduction of the cargo vans for the future delivery process.
The overtime pay of the employees will be over 40 hours per week and the call in pay
will be 3 hours at regular wage. In Quebec, employees with less than 1 year service get 1 day
vacation per full month of uninterrupted service without exceeding 2 weeks. The vacation pay of
the employees will be 4% of the vacation earnings and after 5 years of employment it will be
6%. According to the rules and regulations of Quebec, the employees will be able get maternity
leave of 18 to 15 weeks and the paternity leave will be of 3 to 5 weeks (Zsuzsa and Wood p 238-

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261). As per the rules and regulations of Quebec, the employees who have completed three
months of uninterrupted service may take up to 26 weeks of unpaid leave in a 12-month period.
The cost of the business is to introduce the system of the file system that are required for
each employees, whose wages are minimum, to an extent at the initial stage the business are
required to spend $ 8000 for the employees listed above (Hamideh et al. p 39-50).
The annual salary of the employees will be $ 35000 for the cook who is for full time and
$17,500 for the one who is for part time. This is set based on the minimum annual salary of cook
in Quebec is $ 25,000. The annual salary of information technologist will be $ 65000, as the
minimum annual salary of the information technology specialist is $ 60,832 and for the one time
contract for developing the company’s website for attracting the customers, the information
technologist will be paid $33.00 per hour (Ashish p 75-84). The veterinary nutritionist selected
for the organization will be paid for each profile that is $ 35.00 for each profile. This is
determined based on the minimum payment of the veterinary nutritionist that is $ 34.00 for each
hour.
The company will provide the compassionate that is the employees can take leave up to
12 weeks and that will be unpaid leave per employment year. That is if the circumstances of the
loved ones requires. According to the rules of Quebec, if any employee’s child had serious and
possibly fatal illness then the eligible employee could extend their leave up to 104 weeks (John
D).
In the initial stage the HR are required to develop the human resource planning process is
to assess the current staffs of the organization before making any steps for hiring new employees.
In human resource planning, the organization are required to make the moves for hiring new
employees for the organization. The HR are required to develop the skills of inventory for each
employees of the organization (Richard et al. 28). This can be done by the following ways of
asking the employees for self-evaluating with the questionnaire and also looking over the past
performance reviews.
Future HR planning’s
The HR requirements are required to be forecasted as it is important to assess the
demands of the companies for qualified employees and the supply of those employees either

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within the organization or outside of it. HR needs to carefully manage that supply and demand.
The HR manager are required to forecast the demand and the supply forecasting to the
employees by matching the demand and supply is where the hiring process gets tricky—and
where the rest of the human resources management planning process comes into place (Dipak
Kumar p 74-107). The HR manager will develop a plan to link the organization’s demand for
quality staff with the supply available in the market. This can be achieved by training current
employees, hiring new employees, or combining the two approaches. This is the future HR
planning process that are required by the organization in the future business process (Malik
Faisal and Yasmin p 686-712).

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