Labour Relations Certificate – Spring (Virtual Program)

April 25 at 12:30 pm – June 13 at 4:00 pm

| $5495

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Upon completion of this program, participants will receive a certificate of completion and a digital credential.

Program Leader


Daphne Taras
Professor and Director
Centre for Labour-Management Relations
Toronto Metropolitan University

Program Faculty

Farah Baloo

Senior Legal Counsel, Legal Department
Unifor

Sharmila Clark

Director, Employment Law Division
City of Toronto

Bruce Curran

Associate Professor, Faculty of Law
University of Manitoba

Chris Davidson

Senior Program Lawyer and Researcher

Shana French

Employer Counsel
Sherrard Kuzz LLP

Daryn Jeffries

Employer Counsel
Rae Christen Jeffries LLP

Avner Levin

Professor
Lincoln Alexander School of Law
Toronto Metropolitan University

Ian Mackenzie

Arbitrator and Mediator

Frank Miller

Director, Executive and Corporate Education
Ted Rogers School of Management

Nathaniel Marshall

Employer Counsel and Workplace Investigator
Marshall Workplace Law

Peggy Nash

Senior Advisor and Advisory Committee Chair
Centre for Labour Management Relations, Toronto Metropolitan University

Dionne Pohler

Associate Professor
University of Saskatchewan

Jim Stanford

Economist and Director
Centre for Future Work

Bob Thompson

Professor
Human Resources
Seneca College of Applied Arts and Technology

Naheed Yaqubian

Legal Counsel
Ontario Nurses’ Association

Program

The Labour Relations Certificate Program, presented by Toronto Metropolitan University and Lancaster House, is designed to provide individuals engaged in labour relations with the core skills and knowledge required to create and maintain productive union-management relationships that foster fair and efficient workplaces.

Taught by Canada’s leading labour relations scholars and practitioners, this program combines theory, leading research, and professional experience to provide an education that has immediate application in participants’ workplaces.

Program features

  • Access to leading Canadian experts in a small-group setting
  • Active learning through group discussion, case studies, and simulations
  • Balanced coverage of labour and management points of view
  • Management, union, and neutral attendees learn together
  • Exposure to diverse opinions and extensive knowledge of fellow participants
  • Variety of speakers (academics, lawyers, practitioners, subject-matter experts)

Who should attend?

  • Human resources professionals
  • Union officers and representatives
  • Lawyers
  • Managers
  • Mediators
  • Workplace investigators

2024 Spring Schedule†

The Spring 2024 session of the Labour Relations Certificate Program will comprise of 8 sessions over 8 Weeks and will take place on Thursdays from 12:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. E.T. beginning April 25, 2024.

Sample Agenda

CPD Alberta
This program has been approved by CPHR Alberta for 3.5 Continuing Professional Development hours, per session.
CPD BC and Yukon
This program has been approved by CPHR BC & Yukon for 3.5 Continuing Professional Development hours per session.
CPD CPHR Nova Scotia
This program has been approved by CPHR Nova Scotia for 3.5 Continuing Professional Development hours, per session.
CPD Alberta
This program has been approved for 3.5 Continuing Professional Development hours per session under Section A3 of the Recertification Log of the Human Resources Professionals Association.

CPD

  • This program has been approved by the Law Society of British Columbia for 3.5 Continuing Professional Development hours per session.
  • Members of the Nova Scotia Barristers’ Society may consider counting this program for 3.5 Continuing Professional Development hours per session.
  • Members of the Law Society of New Brunswick may consider this program for 3.5 Continuing Professional Development hours per session.
  • Members of the Law Society of Ontario may consider counting this program for 3.5 substantive hours; 0 professionalism hours, per session.
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