The Organization:

Wholesome Kids Catering is a leading childcare catering company dedicated to Nourishing Lives by providing healthy, delicious, and child-friendly meals and snacks to childcare centres and schools across Ontario.

Our talented and committed team is passionate about delivering exceptional food and service experiences that delight our customers every day. Through our Eat Grow Thrive® philosophy, we combine excellent nutrition with flavours and foods that children love, helping support healthy growth and development.

As a growing organization, we are committed to becoming the dominant brand in our industry by building trusted partnerships, continuously improving, and living our values every day. We believe in acting with integrity, raising the bar, nurturing growth, owning our commitments, and working better together to create exceptional experiences for our customers, colleagues, and communities.

The Role:

The HR Business Partner is an experienced, hands‑on HR qualified who serves as an operational HR Business Partner, providing day‑to‑day people support to leaders and employees across Wholesome Kids Catering.

The role focuses on employee relations, performance and attendance management, disability and leave management, Health & Safety people support, WSIB claim coordination, return‑to‑work planning, leader coaching, policy application, workplace investigations, employee experience and HR compliance.

Working closely with managers and supervisors, the HR Business Partner proactively identifies and resolves people‑related matters while ensuring consistent application of HR practices, policies and employment legislation.





The role operates with a high degree of independence on routine and moderately complex employee matters while maintaining close alignment with the Director, Human Resources on significant employee relations matters, disciplinary decisions, terminations, sensitive investigations, accommodations and matters presenting organizational or legal risk.

Success:

The successful HR Business Partner will:

- Become a trusted day‑to‑day HR partner to managers and supervisors.
- Build strong relationships with employees and leaders while maintaining appropriate HR objectivity.
- Proactively identify and address employee relations and workplace issues before they escape.
- Ensure employee relations, attendance, performance management and disciplinary practices are handled consistently and appropriately.
- Coach leaders to independently manage their teams while providing HR guidance and support.
- Exercise sound judgment independently managing employee matters while appropriately escalating higher‑risk or sensitive matters to the HR Director.
- Maintain strong compliance with Ontario employment legislation and WKC policies.
- Support timely and effective management of workplace injury cases, including WSIB reporting, Functional Abilities Forms (FAFs),



modified work and return‑to‑work plans.
- Strengthen accountability, employee experience and consistent people‑management practices across the organization.

Key Responsibilities:

HR Business Partnership & Leader Support

- Serve as the primary day‑to‑day HR partner for assigned leaders and departments.
- Build strong working relationships with managers, supervisors and employees.
- Provide practical HR guidance on employee relations, performance, attendance, conduct, workplace concerns and policy application.
- Participate in operational meetings where people‑related HR support is required.
- Maintain regular visibility within the operation and understand emerging employee and workplace issues.
- Coach leaders on handling employee matters effectively, consistently and respectfully.
- Identify recurring people issues and bring themes, risks and recommendations to the HR Director.
- Ensure significant people decisions remain aligned with the HR Director.
- Work collaboratively with the other HR Team members to ensure effective coordination and execution of HR activities, while maintaining clear functional ownership and accountability.

Employee Relations

- Lead day‑to‑day employee relations matters, including workplace concerns, conflict resolution, conduct and performance issues.
- Conduct workplace investigations, including interviews, documentation, findings and recommendations.
- Prepare disciplinary documentation, including written warnings, final warnings and Performance Improvement Plans.
- Support termination processes and pr

📌 Human Resources Business Partner (Markham)
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