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SUMMARY:Labour Relations Certificate - Spring/Summer 2025 (Virtual Program)
DESCRIPTION:In association with: \nUpon completion of this program\, participants will receive a certificate of completion and a digital credential. \nProgram Leader \n\nDaphne Taras\nProfessor Emerita\nToronto Metropolitan University (TMU) \nProgram Faculty \n\n\n \nLeanne Anderson\nMember Services Officer\, Advocacy\nUBC Association of Administrative and Professional Staff \n\n\n \nSharan Basran\nChief Legal Officer\, Legal Counsel\nOntario Nurses’ Association (ONA) \n\n\n \nAlex Brat\nSenior Executive Director\, Labour Relations\nUniversity of Toronto \n\n\n \nBruce Curran\nAssociate Professor\nFaculty of Law\nUniversity of Manitoba \n\n\n \nChris Davidson\nLawyer & Workplace Investigator\nTurnpenney Milne LLP \n\n\n \nShana French\nEmployer Counsel\nLittler LLP \n\n\n \nAvner Levin\nProfessor\nLincoln Alexander School of Law\nTed Rogers School of Management\nToronto Metropolitan University (TMU) \n\n\n \nNiki Lundquist\nSenior Director of Equity and Education\nUnifor \n\n\n \nIan Mackenzie\nWriter\, Trainer\, Consultant\, and Facilitator \n\n\n \nDionne Pohler\nAssociate Professor\nUniversity of Saskatchewan \n\n\n \nShannon Sproule\nEmployer Counsel\nTurnpenney Milne LLP \n\n\n \nJim Stanford\nEconomist and Director\nCentre for Future Work\nAustralia Institute \n\n\n \nBob Thompson\nProfessor\, Human Resources\nSeneca Polytechnic \n\n\n\nProgram\nThe 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. \nTaught 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. \n\nAccess to leading Canadian experts in a small-group setting\nActive learning through group discussion\, case studies\, and simulations\nBalanced coverage of labour and management points of view\nManagement\, union\, and neutral attendees learn together\nExposure to diverse opinions and extensive knowledge of fellow participants\nVariety of speakers (academics\, lawyers\, practitioners\, subject-matter experts)\n\n\nWho should attend? \n\nHuman resources professionals\nUnion officers and representatives\nLawyers\nManagers\nMediators\nWorkplace investigators\n\n\n2025 Spring/Summer Schedule† \nThe Spring/Summer 2025 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 June 3\, 2025. \n\nSample Agenda\n\nVideo\n\nCPD\n\n\nThis program has been approved by CPHR Alberta for 3.5 Continuing Professional Development hours\, per session.\n\n\n\n\nThis program has been approved by CPHR BC & Yukon for 3.5 Continuing Professional Development hours\, per session.\n\n\n\n\nThis 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)\, per session\n\n\n\n\n \n\nThis program has been approved by the Law Society of British Columbia for 3.5 Continuing Professional Development hours\, per session.\nMembers of the Law Society of New Brunswick may consider this program for 3.5 Continuing Professional Development hours\, per session.\nMembers of the Law Society of Ontario may consider counting this program for 3.5 substantive hours; 0 professionalism hours\, per session.\nMembers of the Nova Scotia Barristers’ Society may consider counting this program for 3.5 Continuing Professional Development hours\, per session.
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SUMMARY:Annual Update on Gender Equity: The latest cases and legislative developments
DESCRIPTION:In this webinar\, practitioners will examine recent noteworthy cases and legislative developments relating to gender equity in the workplace. Speakers will address questions such as: \nOption: Live Webinar\, video\, and MP3 Bundle | Live Webinar | Video and MP3$595.00Add to cart	\n			\n  \n\nWhen can an employer discipline\, an employee for expressing controversial or discriminatory views regarding gender equity at work? What rights and restrictions exist with respect to employees expressing views regarding gender equity in the workplace? When will free speech rights prevail?\nWhat factors relating to gender equity have been found to render hiring processes discriminatory in recent cases? How can employers and unions ensure that hiring and promotion processes are equitable and do not reinforce systemic barriers to advancement?\nWhat trends in discipline and damages are emerging in recent cases dealing with sexual harassment and discrimination on the basis of sex\, gender\, sexual orientation\, and/or family status?\nWhat lessons can be learned from recent cases addressing the procedure for investigating discrimination and harassment claims related to gender equity concerns?\nHow have arbitrators\, courts\, and human rights tribunals resolved evidentiary challenges relating to establishing sexual harassment and discrimination on the basis of sex\, gender\, sexual orientation\, and/or family status? Is direct evidence of discrimination required? When may expert evidence be necessary?\n\n\n\nWhen will an employer’s refusal to allow an employee to work from home be considered discriminatory on the basis of the employee’s pregnancy and/or family status?\nWhat lessons can be learned from recent cases addressing legislative pay equity requirements? For example:\n\nAre employers required to disclose information on an ongoing basis relating to the maintenance of legislative pay equity?\nWhen are disputes regarding legislative pay equity requirements grievable/arbitrable?\n\n\nWhat federal and provincial legislative initiatives have recently been enacted addressing issues of gender equity? For example\, which provinces have recently passed pay transparency legislation and how do these legislative enactments differ in their requirements? What changes have been implemented through Ontario’s Working for Workers legislation? What is the status of the federal government’s proposed amendments to the federal Employment Equity Act?\n\n\n\nFinal selection of topics will take place in the weeks leading up to the webinar\, ensuring coverage of the latest and most newsworthy developments. \nModerator \n\n\n \nHeather Hoiness\nStaff Lawyer\nBC Office of the Human Rights Commissioner \n\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n\n \nKristine Barr\nLegal Representative\,\nCanadian Union of Public Employees (Manitoba Regional Office) \n\n\n \nLauren Jamieson\nPartner\nEmond Harnden LLP \n\n\n \nNatasha Savoline\nPartner and Investigations Practice Lead\nBernardi Law \n\n\n\nAccreditation \nCPD\n\n\nThis program has been approved by CPHR Alberta for 1.5 Continuing Professional Development hours.\n\n\n\n\nThis program has been approved by CPHR BC & Yukon for 1.5 Continuing Professional Development hours.\n\n\n\n\nThis program has been approved for Continuing Professional Development 1.5 hours under Section A of the Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Log of the Human Resource Professionals Association (HRPA).\n\n\n\n\n \n\nThis program has been approved by the Law Society of British Columbia for 1.5 Continuing Professional Development hours.\nMembers of the Law Society of Ontario may consider counting this program for 1.5 Substantive hours; 0 Professionalism hours.\nMembers of the Nova Scotia Barristers’ Society may count this program for 1.5 Continuing Professional Development hours.\nMembers of the Law Society of New Brunswick may consider this program for 1.5 Continuing Professional Development hours.
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