CPA conference biggest ever

Keynote speakers deliver work-life balance message, CPA honours best in profession

Making sure people get paid is not a simple task.

“(Payroll is) a legislation-driven job and the reality is there is stress related to it and we try to help people deal with it,” said Canadian Payroll Association (CPA) president Patrick Culhane.

About 1,000 payroll professionals took time away from the office last month and attended the CPA’s conference in Edmonton, taking professional development sessions on everything from compliant termination processes to motivating intergenerational employees.

The keynote speakers talked about managing in stressful situations, said Culhane.

“The keynotes had a message of work hard but have fun and keep life in balance,” he said.

That’s important advice to keep top of mind in an industry with about 190 governing pieces of legislation where many professionals work alone, he said.

The conference, which took place June 9 and 10 in Edmonton, was the CPA’s biggest ever, with the most industry delegates the annual meeting has ever seen, said Culhane.

“It was fantastic,” he said.

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