Big changes are coming for Ontario dealerships, and they signal what’s next for the rest of Canada.
Starting January 1, 2026, Ontario’s new employment laws (Bills 149 and 190) will require salary ranges in every job posting, AI-use disclosures in hiring, and paid training for trial periods.
It’s a wake-up call for dealers everywhere: transparency, fairness, and ethical technology are becoming non-negotiable.
Dealerships that move early, updating templates, automating compliance, and training managers, won’t just avoid risk. They’ll build trust.
Most HR systems force dealerships to choose between standardization and flexibility. DriveHRIS was built so you never have to.
With 1,000+ configurable settings, DriveHRIS adapts to any dealership structure, by rooftop, department, position, or even employee, without breaking compliance or control.
The result? 60% fewer manual adjustments, 99.9% of exceptions automated, and complete visibility across every store.
When your HR system bends to you, your team gets time back to focus on what really drives performance, your people.
Most dealership HR teams aren’t buried in paperwork, they’re buried in process.
Chasing signatures. Fixing data errors. Managing endless forms that never seem to stay organized.
The real problem? Most systems only digitize the paper, they don’t automate the process.
DriveHRIS changes that with native fillable PDFs built right into the platform, automating 99% of the steps that slow HR down. Forms auto-fill from employee profiles, route for signature in the right order, and store every action with audit-ready accuracy.
The result: fewer errors, faster workflows, and compliance you can trust.
Date: Thursday, Nov 27th, 2025 | Time: 2:00pm EDT | Hosted by: Sandra Conrad, CPHR, SHRM-SCP
From Clean-Up to Confidence: Year-End HR & Payroll Strategies for Dealerships
Year-end shouldn’t feel like damage control. This month’s DriveHRIS Knowledge Session will help you turn clean-up into prevention, with practical steps to protect profitability, accuracy, and trust across every rooftop.
Join us as we cover:
• The top year-end pitfalls dealerships face (and how to avoid them)
• How automation reduces manual data clean-up and compliance risk
• The right way to manage TD forms, approvals, and reporting for 2026 readiness
✅ Plus: Get your 2025 Year-End Checklist and 2026 Planning Template included.
Can’t make it? Register anyway, as we will be sending out the replay and workbook next week.
The global auto industry is entering a major talent transition. Electrification, digitalization, and trade volatility are forcing employers to rethink how work gets done, and who’s equipped to do it. According to ManpowerGroup, 91% of automotive leaders say trade uncertainty is influencing hiring, with nearly half expecting headcounts to stay flat through 2025.
Beyond headcount, the bigger challenge is skills. Operations, logistics, and engineering roles remain the hardest to fill, while employers say soft skills like ethical judgment, communication, and team management are becoming irreplaceable by AI. Yet more than half of automotive employees report receiving no training in the past six months. The gap between technology adoption and workforce readiness is widening fast.
Generational turnover adds pressure. With thousands of experienced workers retiring each day, dealerships and manufacturers face a growing risk of lost expertise. The next phase of competitiveness will depend on how well companies can retain knowledge, retrain workers, and attract hybrid talent, people equally fluent in technology and human collaboration.
For HR and leadership teams, the message is clear: treat talent as strategy, not overhead. Invest in training, create career paths that merge technical and interpersonal strengths, and communicate openly about how roles are evolving. The future of automotive work won’t be built on tools alone, it will be built on people ready to use them.
September was our biggest innovation month yet — 51 new DriveHRIS features went live. From advanced customization options and workflow automation to smarter reporting, AI resume parser, and security enhancements, every update was designed to make dealership HR faster, cleaner, and more intuitive.
We’re not just keeping up, we’re redefining what’s possible in dealership HR technology.
Book a demo and see how simple it can be to lead from anywhere.
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