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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

Sharan Basran

Senior Executive of Legal and Counsel
Ontario Nurses’ Association

Esi Codjoe

Employer Counsel
Turnpenney Milne LLP

Alex Brat

Senior Executive Director
Labour Relations
The Division of People Strategy
Equity & Culture University 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

Avner Levin

Professor
Lincoln Alexander School of Law
Toronto Metropolitan University

Niki Lundquist

Associate Counsel
Legal Department, Unifor

John McNamee

Arbitrator

Frank Miller

Director, Executive and Corporate Education
Ted Rogers School of Management

Kat Leonard

National Representative
Unifor

Dionne Pohler

Associate Professor
University of Saskatchewan

Bob Thompson

Professor
Human Resources
Seneca College of Applied Arts and Technology

Jennifer Wootton

Lawyer/Workplace Investigator

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 Winter Schedule

The Winter 2024 session of the Labour Relations Certificate Program will comprise of 8 sessions over 4 weeks, and will take place on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 12:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. ET beginning February 13, 2024.

More detailed information coming soon.

Agenda – Winter 2024

CPD Alberta
This program has been approved for Continuing Professional Development 3.5 hours  per session under Category A of the Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Log of the Human Resource Professionals Association (HRPA).
CPD BC and Yukon
This program has been approved by CPHR BC & Yukon for 3.5 Continuing Professional Development hours per session.
CPD Alberta
This program has been approved by CPHR Alberta for 3.5 Continuing Professional Development hours per session.

CPD

  • This program has been approved by the Law Society of British Columbia for 3.5 Substantive Hours; 0 Professionalism Hours, per session.
  • Members of the Law Society of New Brunswick may count this program for 3.5 Continuing Professional Development hours, per session.
  • Members of the Nova Scotia Barristers’ Society may count this program for 3.5 Continuing Professional Development hours, per session.
  • CPD for Members of the Law Society of Ontario: 3.5 Substantive Hours; 0 Professionalism Hours, per session.
  • This program has been approved by CPHR Nova Scotia for 3.5 Continuing Professional Development hours, per session.
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