HR Self-Regulation Act will come into force in June, plus you're invited to our event to celebrate!

When you wake up on Sunday June 1, 2025, you will be a member of a self-regulated profession. Will you feel any different? Maybe! Will it change your career? Yes, and no.

If you are a regulated CPHR or CPHR Candidate, your credentials carry even more weight – and of course along with that weight comes added responsibility. So, what exactly will be different?

We will collectively and individually be legally accountable to protect the public at work.

Individually, we are each required to uphold the standards of practice of our profession. People will have the right to register complaints and have them heard. And as part of our public accountability, decisions from Inquiry Committee will now be published.

The benefit is that the CPHR designation will increasingly stand for trust and accountability, which can only continue to increase our credibility and our value to the communities we serve.

A bit of homework:

By June 1, 2025, CPHR Manitoba is required to maintain a public registry containing all active members including your name, member type, professional address and registration date. 

Please log in and update your profile information before June 1. An address must be provided and cannot be left blank.

An invitation:

While this is a professional and legal change of status, it is also a reason to celebrate!

On June 4 we will be hosting a celebration event at Manitoba Club. We’re hoping for a great turnout to commemorate this once-in-a-career event.

Event details

Date: Wednesday, June 4, 2025

Time: 4:30pm-6:30pm

Location: Manitoba Club

Registration is required. 

To register, click here. 

Collectively, we’ve been operating largely as a self-regulated entity, in preparation. We have had public representatives on the board and certain committees, and much work has been done behind the scenes to prepare:

• The updated bylaws completed at last year’s AGM will come into effect June 1

• Three new committees have been struck with updated Terms of Reference:

•  The former Complaints & Investigations Committee becomes the Complaints Committee.
•  The former Discipline Committee becomes the Inquiry Committee.
•  And there is a new Registration Committee.

•  We’ve also update the complaints process to better align with the act and administrative law.

This new structure ensures that we will be able to assess complaints and address them thoughtfully and with the appropriate accountability, to continue to earn the trust of all involved.

We’ve been working for 12 years toward the self-regulation of CPHRs in Manitoba, because we see this as the future of the HR profession here, and across Canada.

We have long understood the value that your work brings to employers and employees alike. Now, that value is recognized with the legal authority to protect the public. CPHRs have always worked hard to create better workplaces and better communities – creating safety, stability and opportunity for hundreds of thousands of our fellow Manitobans.

This is a recognition of trust that you have earned and a responsibility we will proudly, collectively uphold.

Click here for more information about the Act.

Sincerely,

CPHR Manitoba