Clothes Encounters: Balancing safety, accommodation, and management rights in workplace dress code policy
Webinar + MP3 Bundle - $595.00
Program Overview
How can workplaces effectively develop and enforce dress code policies that meet business needs while complying with human rights and safety obligations. Specifically, the panel will discuss:
- What is the purpose of workplace dress codes, and how can organizations ensure that they are reasonable,effective, and enforceable?
- Will courts or tribunals find that requiring an employee to remove religious attire to comply with a dress code was discriminatory?
- To what extent can employers regulate or restrict employees from wearing clothing or accessories indicating personal beliefs or affiliations (e.g., wearing union insignia or attire with political slogans)?
- Can employers regulate the grooming habits of employees? In what circumstances, if any, can an employer restrict the use of make-up or jewelry, or the visibility of tattoos and body modifications in the workplace?
- Are dress code policies enforceable for remote workers? Can employers enforce dress code policies for positions that don’t involve client or public interaction?
- Can dress code policies regulate how employees dress outside of work hours?
- Must employees comply with the “work now, grieve later” principle when asked to alter their appearance (e.g. remove false nails, shave a beard, remove piercings, etc.)?
- What are best practices for employers and unions when addressing an employee’s non-compliance with dress code policies? Will past inconsistent enforcement of dress code policies affect discipline and/or enforcement?
Speakers
Jaime Hoopes
Employer Counsel
Roper Greyell LLP
Chetan Muram
Dewart Gleason LLP
Moderator
Lisa Gallivan
Arbitrator, Mediator and Workplace Investigator
CPD Information
Please see below for CPD information for this event. Note that some regulators impose expiry periods for event pre-approvals. Participants are encouraged to consult the code and expiry date provided during the webinar and, where an expiry code date for pre-approvals has passed or is not provided, participants should confirm eligibility directly with their professional regulator. Participants are likewise encouraged to contact Lancaster House or their professional regulator with any other questions regarding the CPD eligibility of the event.
This program has been approved by CPHR BC & Yukon for 1.5 Continuing Professional Development hours.
This program has been approved for 1.5 Continuing Professional Development (CPD) hours under Section A of the Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Log of the Human Resource Professionals Association (HRPA).
- This program has been approved by the Law Society of British Columbia for 1.5 Continuing Professional Development hours.
- Members of the Law Society of Ontario may consider counting this program for 1.5 Substantive hours; 0 Professionalism hours.
- Members of the Nova Scotia Barristers’ Society may count this program for 1.5 Continuing Professional Development hours.
- Members of the Law Society of New Brunswick may consider this program for 1.5 Continuing Professional Development hours.