2021 in Employment Law: Critical decisions that will affect your practice
Includes: Webinar Recording with all Associated Materials December 19, 2021 2021 was a notable year in employment law, with courts having to address perennially vexing issues as well as [...]
Investigating with Integrity: Professionalism in conducting workplace investigations
Includes: Webinar Recording with all Associated Materials November 25, 2021 Legal professionals, human resources specialists, and management personnel are increasingly called upon to assist organizations in carrying out a [...]
Crossing the Line? Distinguishing between legitimate management, harassment, and borderline behaviours
Includes: Webinar Recording with all Associated Materials November 9, 2021 While some instances of harassment and bullying are easy to recognize, many workplace behaviours are more ambiguous. Workplace parties [...]
Simmer Down: Cool-headed responses to aggressive behaviour in the workplace
Includes: Webinar Recording with all Associated Materials October 7, 2021 While rude, confrontational, and abusive behaviour is not a new challenge for workplace parties, the past year and a [...]
The ABCs of IMEs Reimagined: Reviewing the basics, exploring collaborative models
Includes: Webinar Recording with all Associated Materials October 6, 2021 The use of independent medical examinations (IMEs) in determining appropriate accommodations is highly contentious. Unions and employees may doubt [...]
Attendance Management during COVID-19 and Beyond: What rules will apply in the hybrid workplace?
Includes: Webinar Recording with all Associated Materials September 24, 2021 Experience working during the pandemic, which has seen broad acceptance of remote work as well as increased awareness of [...]
Torts Illustrated: A primer on torts arising in the workplace context and the latest developments
Includes: Webinar Recording with all Associated Materials September 13, 2021 Labour relations professionals may be unfamiliar with torts — legal wrongs separate and apart from breaches of contract that [...]
Homing in on Harassment: Developments in remedies, investigations, and judicial review
September 2, 2021 While COVID-19 has profoundly transformed the workplace, harassment has remained an issue of significant concern. Many workplaces have witnessed an increase in the number of incidents and allegations of harassment. [...]
Substance Use and the Workplace: Staying up to date on testing, accommodation, return-to-work conditions, and discharge
Includes: Webinar Recording with all Associated Materials August 19, 2021 While substance use is a perennial concern for workplace parties, use of alcohol, cannabis, prescription medications, and illicit substances [...]
Current Issues in Health Care Law: Health and safety, accommodation, discipline for off-duty conduct, privacy, and more
Includes: Webinar Recording with all Associated Materials August 5, 2021 Employers, unions, and workers in the health care sector face unique challenges and added complexity given the nature of their [...]
Fumbling through Fables? Examining the role of credibility, reliability, and apology in investigations and arbitrations
Includes: Webinar Recording with all Associated Materials July 8, 2021 Employers, investigators, and decision-makers are often required to make determinations about the credibility and reliability of employee statements and [...]
Bill C-65 Explained: An expert forum on the new federal violence and harassment regulations
Includes: Webinar Recording with all Associated Materials June 24, 2021 In the midst of the pandemic, federally regulated employers and the unions representing their employees have been tasked with [...]
Desperate Times, Desperate Measures: Is strict discipline necessary to ensure workplace safety during the pandemic?
Includes: Webinar Recording with all Associated Materials June 17, 2021 The COVID-19 pandemic has created unique safety concerns for workplaces and new headaches for employers and unions as they [...]
The Price of Inaction: Liability for failing to investigate and respond to workplace concerns
Includes: Webinar Recording with all Associated Materials June 3, 2021 Recent high-profile investigations at Rideau Hall and the Canadian Museum for Human Rights have served as a stark reminder [...]
Speaking Out in the Public Interest: Whistleblowing and the scope and limits of employee free speech
Includes: Webinar Recording with all Associated Materials May 6, 2021 Research has shown that whistleblowers provide the single most effective means of uncovering wrongdoing that undermines the public interest, [...]
Taking One’s Leave: Determining entitlement to leaves of absence, vacation, and sickness and disability benefits in the time of COVID-19
Includes: Webinar Recording with all Associated Materials April 22, 2021 To prevent the spread of COVID-19, workplace parties across Canada have had to adapt their workplaces. In doing so, [...]
Examining the Exception: Dealing with bad faith allegations of bullying, harassment, and misconduct
Includes: Webinar Recording with all Associated Materials April 8, 2021 While most employees and employers raise workplace issues in good faith, complaints procedures and investigation processes are occasionally abused [...]
Flashpoints in University and College Labour Law: Contract and term appointments, evaluation, discipline, harassment, and more
Includes: Webinar Recording with all Associated Materials March 25, 2021 University and college workplaces give rise to many of the same disputes found in other workplaces, but the resolution [...]
Workplace Privacy Today and Tomorrow: What’s on the horizon for privacy law?
Includes: Webinar Recording with all Associated Materials March 11, 2021 The federal government recently introduced the Digital Charter Implementation Act, 2020, which contains the most ambitious changes to Canada's [...]
Discipline Flashpoints: Benefit fraud, harassment, off-duty misconduct, and other current concerns
Includes: Webinar Recording with all Associated Materials March 4, 2021 The questions of whether discipline is warranted and what constitutes an appropriate penalty are perennially contentious issues for workplace [...]
Coping with COVID: Managing stress, burnout, and pandemic fatigue
Includes: Webinar Recording with all Associated Materials February 18, 2021 In April 2020, the Canadian Mental Health Association called for immediate action to avoid the potential of an "echo [...]
Public Health and Legal Responses to the Pandemic: What’s behind us, what lies ahead
Includes: Webinar Recording with all Associated Materials February 9, 2021 For nearly a year, employers, unions, and workers have struggled with unprecedented challenges presented by the COVID-19 pandemic. Many [...]
Live Issues at the Labour Board: What you need to know for 2021
Includes: Webinar Recording with all Associated Materials January 28, 2021 Discussion of arbitration decisions tends to dominate many continuing education events for labour relations professionals, but knowledge of recent [...]
Hindsight Is 20/20: Key cases and developments in labour and human rights
Includes: Webinar Recording with all Associated Materials January 21, 2021 Seasoned counsel will review the most important labour and human rights decisions from the past year and explain how [...]