Webinars On Demand
With over 50 workplace topics to choose from, we make it easy to find the information you’re looking for. Our storehouse of 90-minute MP3s brings together the collected wisdom and experience of leading union and management counsel as well as neutrals and subject matter experts from across the country. In addition, each MP3 is accompanied by a PDF of concise summaries of cases discussed by the experts.
Learning to Accommodate: A step-by-step guide to accommodating employees with learning and intellectual disabilities
April 9, 2015 Accommodating an employee who has a learning or intellectual disability presents special challenges for employers and unions. How can workplace parties recognize when performance issues may be the result of a learning [...]
Who’s Running the Shop? Balancing employer rules against employee privacy
March 5, 2015 Recent developments in privacy law have resulted in a greater recognition, as well as an increasing expansion, of employee privacy rights in the arbitral jurisprudence. Further, as a result of the Supreme [...]
Anti-Social Media: Pulling the plug on electronic bullies
February 26, 2015 The use of electronic communication to harass, bully, threaten, and malign, also referred to as "cyberbullying," has become a growing concern in the 21st century workplace. While cyberbullying shares certain [...]
Shining a Light on Off-Duty Misconduct: When is it cause for discharge?
February 19, 2015 The circumstances surrounding CBC's recent firing of Jian Ghomeshi raise a host of legal issues, including an employer's ability to discharge employees for off-duty behaviour. When can an employee be [...]
The Right to Strike: A detailed discussion and analysis of the Supreme Court’s decision in Saskatchewan Federation of Labour v. Saskatchewan
February 17, 2015 On January 30, the Supreme Court of Canada issued a decision affirming, for the first time, constitutional protection for the right to strike in Canada. Applying this principle, it quashed [...]
Sexual Harassment in the Workplace: Overcoming a culture of fear
February 12, 2015 As a result of a series of high-profile and very public disclosures in recent months, the problem of sexual harassment in Canada's workplaces has surged to the forefront of workplace law. These [...]
Looking Back, Looking Forward: What’s happened recently – and what lies ahead?
January 22, 2015 In this session, Lancaster's panel of experts will review the most important decisions in workplace law of 2014 and explain how the key legal principles enunciated in those decisions should guide the [...]
Harassment and the Toxic Work Environment: Examining rights and remedies
December 17, 2014 Under human rights law and occupational health and safety legislation, the atmosphere of a workplace is a "term or condition of employment" just as much as explicit terms such as [...]