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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
Coming Soon.
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
2025 Winter Schedule†
The Winter 2025 session of the Labour Relations Certificate Program will comprise of 8 sessions over 8 weeks, and will take place on Tuesdays from 12:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. ET beginning February 4, 2025.
Sample Agenda
This program has been approved for 3.5 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 CPHR Alberta for 3.5 Continuing Professional Development hours, per session.
This program has been approved by CPHR BC & Yukon for 3.5 Continuing Professional Development hours, per session.
- This program has been approved by CPHR Nova Scotia for 3.5 Continuing Professional Development hours, per session.
- This program has been approved by the Law Society of British Columbia 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.
- Members of the Nova Scotia Barristers’ Society may consider counting this program for 3.5 Continuing Professional Development hours, per session.
