2027 Annual Pensions Update: The latest cases, legislative updates, and policy developments
Strategic Arbitration Advocacy Certificate Program
Strengthen your arbitration advocacy skills with advanced training focused on complex labour disputes. Learn strategic case development, evidentiary analysis, witness examinations, procedural advocacy, and persuasive hearing techniques through practical exercises and simulations.
Effective Grievance Handling and Arbitration Advocacy: Intensive training for employers and unions
Strengthen your ability to resolve workplace disputes and advocate effectively in arbitration. This hands-on certificate program explores grievance handling, settlement strategies, evidence management, arbitration preparation, and persuasive advocacy skills.
Menopause in the Workplace: Supporting employees through a natural life transition
Learn how employers, unions, HR professionals, and workplace leaders can better support employees experiencing perimenopause and menopause. Explore practical approaches to fostering inclusion, wellbeing, awareness, and workplace support.
Hindsight Is 20/20: Key cases and developments in labour and human rights
Seasoned counsel will review the most important labour and human rights decisions from the past year and explain how they will affect you in the coming year. The panel will also flag significant ongoing litigation. Final selection of topics will take place a few weeks before the webinar in order to ensure up-to-date coverage of the most important developments.
Live Issues at the Labour Board: What you need to know for 2021
SIGN UP FOR MORE INFORMATION BUY NOW Bundle: Live Webinar, Video, and MP3 Live Issues at the Labour Board: What you need to know for 2021 quantity Add to Cart Program Overview Discussion of arbitration decisions tends to dominate many continuing education events for labour relations professionals, but knowledge of recent labour board decisions is […]
Public Health and Legal Responses to the Pandemic: What’s behind us, what lies ahead
SIGN UP FOR MORE INFORMATION BUY NOW Bundle: Live Webinar, Video, and MP3 Public Health and Legal Responses to the Pandemic: What's behind us, what lies ahead quantity Add to Cart Program Overview For nearly a year, employers, unions, and workers have struggled with unprecedented challenges presented by the COVID-19 pandemic. Many challenges have been […]
Coping with COVID: Managing stress, burnout, and pandemic fatigue
Webinar + MP3 Bundle – $595.00 Please set a valid product Program Overview What to Expect Speakers Agenda Sample Materials Program Overview In April 2020, the Canadian Mental Health Association called for immediate action to avoid the potential of an “echo pandemic” of mental health issues resulting from COVID-19. In subsequent months, studies revealing dramatically […]
Discipline Flashpoints: Benefit fraud, harassment, off-duty misconduct, and other current concerns
The questions of whether discipline is warranted and what constitutes an appropriate penalty are perennially contentious issues for workplace parties. These issues are further compounded by the fact that disciplinary sanctions change in accordance with evolving societal attitudes, with some forms of misconduct meriting harsher disciplinary consequences than in the past.
Workplace Privacy Today and Tomorrow: What’s on the horizon for privacy law?
SIGN UP FOR MORE INFORMATION BUY NOW Bundle: Live Webinar, Video, and MP3 $150.00 Workplace Privacy Today and Tomorrow: What's on the horizon for privacy law? quantity Add to Cart Program Overview The federal government recently introduced the Digital Charter Implementation Act, 2020, which contains the most ambitious changes to Canada’s privacy law in decades. In […]
Flashpoints in University and College Labour Law: Contract and term appointments, evaluation, discipline, harassment, and more
SIGN UP FOR MORE INFORMATION BUY NOW Bundle: Live Webinar, Video, and MP3 $150.00 Flashpoints in University and College Labour Law: Contract and term appointments, evaluation, discipline, harassment, and more quantity Add to Cart Program Overview University and college workplaces give rise to many of the same disputes found in other workplaces, but the resolution […]
Examining the Exception: Dealing with bad faith allegations of bullying, harassment, and misconduct
SIGN UP FOR MORE INFORMATION BUY NOW Bundle: Live Webinar, Video, and MP3 $150.00 Examining the Exception: Dealing with bad faith allegations of bullying, harassment, and misconduct quantity Add to Cart Program Overview While most employees and employers raise workplace issues in good faith, complaints procedures and investigation processes are occasionally abused by those with […]
Taking One’s Leave: Determining entitlement to leaves of absence, vacation, and sickness and disability benefits in the time of COVID-19
To prevent the spread of COVID-19, workplace parties across Canada have had to adapt their workplaces. In doing so, they have had to balance the employer’s need to ensure orderly, efficient, safe, and predictable operations at the workplace against employees’ needs for greater flexibility, to attend to additional childcare and other family responsibilities, to self-isolate in certain circumstances, and more.
Speaking Out in the Public Interest: Whistleblowing and the scope and limits of employee free speech
SIGN UP FOR MORE INFORMATION BUY NOW Bundle: Live Webinar, Video, and MP3 $150.00 Speaking Out in the Public Interest: Whistleblowing and the scope and limits of employee free speech quantity Add to Cart Program Overview Research has shown that whistleblowers provide the single most effective means of uncovering wrongdoing that undermines the public interest, […]
The Price of Inaction: Liability for failing to investigate and respond to workplace concerns
SIGN UP FOR MORE INFORMATION BUY NOW Bundle: Live Webinar, Video, and MP3 $150.00 The Price of Inaction: Liability for failing to investigate and respond to workplace concerns quantity Add to Cart Program Overview Recent high-profile investigations at Rideau Hall and the Canadian Museum for Human Rights have served as a stark reminder that, even […]
Desperate Times, Desperate Measures: Is strict discipline necessary to ensure workplace safety during the pandemic?
SIGN UP FOR MORE INFORMATION BUY NOW Bundle: Live Webinar, Video, and MP3 $150.00 Desperate Times, Desperate Measures: Is strict discipline necessary to ensure workplace safety during the pandemic? quantity Add to Cart Program Overview The questions of whether discipline is warranted and what constitutes an appropriate penalty are perennially contentious issues for workplace parties. […]
Bill C-65 Explained: An expert forum on the new federal violence and harassment regulations
SIGN UP FOR MORE INFORMATION BUY NOW Bundle: Live Webinar, Video, and MP3 $150.00 Discipline Flashpoints: Benefit fraud, harassment, off-duty misconduct, and other current concerns quantity Add to Cart Program Overview In the midst of the pandemic, federally regulated employers and the unions representing their employees have been tasked with taking significant new steps to […]
Fumbling through Fables? Examining the role of credibility, reliability, and apology in investigations and arbitrations
SIGN UP FOR MORE INFORMATION BUY NOW Bundle: Live Webinar, Video, and MP3 $150.00 Fumbling through Fables? Examining the role of credibility, reliability, and apology in investigations and arbitrations quantity Add to Cart Program Overview Employers, investigators, and decision-makers are often required to make determinations about the credibility and reliability of employee statements and testimony […]
Current Issues in Health Care Law: Health and safety, accommodation, discipline for off-duty conduct, privacy, and more
SIGN UP FOR MORE INFORMATION BUY NOW Bundle: Live Webinar, Video, and MP3 $150.00 Current Issues in Health Care Law: Health and safety, accommodation, discipline for off-duty conduct, privacy, and more quantity Add to Cart Program Overview Employers, unions, and workers in the health care sector face unique challenges and added complexity given the nature […]
Substance Use and the Workplace: Staying up to date on testing, accommodation, return-to-work conditions, and discharge
Webinar + MP3 Bundle – $595.00 Please set a valid product Program Overview What to Expect Speakers Agenda Sample Materials Program Overview While substance use is a perennial concern for workplace parties, use of alcohol, cannabis, prescription medications, and illicit substances has increased significantly during the pandemic, as Canadians cope with mental health challenges and […]
Homing in on Harassment: Developments in remedies, investigations, and judicial review
SIGN UP FOR MORE INFORMATION BUY NOW Bundle: Live Webinar, Video, and MP3 $150.00 Homing in on Harassment: Developments in remedies, investigations, and judicial review quantity Add to Cart Program Overview While COVID-19 has profoundly transformed the workplace, harassment has remained an issue of significant concern. Many workplaces have witnessed an increase in the number […]
Torts Illustrated: A primer on torts arising in the workplace context and the latest developments
SIGN UP FOR MORE INFORMATION BUY NOW Bundle: Live Webinar, Video, and MP3 $150.00 Fumbling through Fables? Examining the role of credibility, reliability, and apology in investigations and arbitrations quantity Add to Cart Program Overview Labour relations professionals may be unfamiliar with torts — legal wrongs separate and apart from breaches of contract that lead […]
Attendance Management during COVID-19 and Beyond: What rules will apply in the hybrid workplace?
SIGN UP FOR MORE INFORMATION BUY NOW Bundle: Live Webinar, Video, and MP3 $150.00 Attendance Management during COVID-19 and Beyond: What rules will apply in the hybrid workplace? quantity Add to Cart Program Overview Experience working during the pandemic, which has seen broad acceptance of remote work as well as increased awareness of the dangers […]
The ABCs of IMEs Reimagined: Reviewing the basics, exploring collaborative models
SIGN UP FOR MORE INFORMATION BUY NOW Bundle: Live Webinar, Video, and MP3 $150.00 The ABCs of IMEs Reimagined: Reviewing the basics, exploring collaborative models quantity Add to Cart Program Overview The use of independent medical examinations (IMEs) in determining appropriate accommodations is highly contentious. Unions and employees may doubt the independence of a physician […]
Simmer Down: Cool-headed responses to aggressive behaviour in the workplace
SIGN UP FOR MORE INFORMATION BUY NOW Bundle: Live Webinar, Video, and MP3 $150.00 Simmer Down: Cool-headed responses to aggressive behaviour in the workplace quantity Add to Cart Program Overview While rude, confrontational, and abusive behaviour is not a new challenge for workplace parties, the past year and a half has seen a noticeable uptick […]
Crossing the Line? Distinguishing between legitimate management, harassment, and borderline behaviours
Webinar + MP3 Bundle – $595.00 Please set a valid product Program Overview What to Expect Speakers Agenda Sample Materials Program Overview While some instances of harassment and bullying are easy to recognize, many workplace behaviours are more ambiguous. Workplace parties must be prepared to distinguish harassment and bullying from borderline behaviours and the exercise […]
Investigating with Integrity: Professionalism in conducting workplace investigations
Webinar + MP3 Bundle – $595.00 Please set a valid product Program Overview What to Expect Speakers Agenda Sample Materials Program Overview Legal professionals, human resources specialists, and management personnel are increasingly called upon to assist organizations in carrying out a workplace investigation. Investigations frequently involve complex and sensitive matters: allegations of discrimination or harassment […]
2021 in Employment Law: Critical decisions that will affect your practice
Webinar + MP3 Bundle – $595.00 Please set a valid product Program Overview What to Expect Speakers Agenda Sample Materials Program Overview 2021 was a notable year in employment law, with courts having to address perennially vexing issues as well as novel challenges created by the COVID-19 pandemic. In this webinar, leading counsel will review […]
Hot Off the Press! Annual human rights and labour law update
SIGN UP FOR MORE INFORMATION BUY NOW Bundle: Live Webinar, Video, and MP3 $150.00 Hot Off the Press! Annual human rights and labour law update quantity Add to Cart Program Overview In this webinar, seasoned counsel will review the most important non-COVID-related labour and human rights decisions from the past year and explain how they […]
Discrimination and Harassment: Experts examine recent cases, emerging trends
Webinar + MP3 Bundle – $595.00 Please set a valid product Program Overview What to Expect Speakers Agenda Sample Materials Program Overview Conduct that may have been tolerated in the past is no longer considered acceptable. Employers are now facing a higher degree of accountability for failing to address misconduct in the workplace, while employees […]
2026 Annual Pensions Update: The latest cases and legislative updates, and policy developments
Canadian pension and benefit plans are facing a pivotal moment, where shifting caselaw, evolving regulations, and new legislative developments are redefining what it means to manage risk, ensure compliance, and protect members. Specifically, the panel will address: How are courts interpreting fiduciary duties in light of longevity risks and ESG considerations?
Lancaster’s Employment Essentials: Non-disciplinary discharge and terminations
This program brings together leading practitioners to unpack the latest developments in employment and labour law. From the enforceability of termination clauses, to the boundaries of “just cause” in cases of innocent absenteeism, this webinar explores how courts across Canada are redefining fairness and good faith in the termination process.
Creating and Enforcing Effective AI Policies: Confidentiality & compliance
Join leading experts as they explore how employers and unions can design and enforce effective AI policies that safeguard confidentiality, ensure compliance, and maintain trust and accountability in an evolving digital landscape. How are AI tools (e.g. Chat GPT, Copilot, Gemini, DALL-E) being used by employees and employers?
Responding to Sexual Harassment and Sexual Violence at Work: Union and employer duties
Sexual harassment and sexual violence allegations raise complex legal, human rights, and workplace challenges for both employers and unions. This webinar provides a practical examination of the duties that arise when concerns are raised, from receiving a complaint through investigation, resolution, and workplace restoration.
Family Status Accommodation in Ontario: Exploring caselaw, challenges, and emerging trends through practical scenarios
Gain practical guidance on family status accommodation in Ontario. This webinar examines evolving case law, caregiving obligations, accommodation requirements, and real-world workplace scenarios affecting employers, unions, HR professionals, and legal practitioners.
Family Status Accommodation in BC: Exploring caselaw, challenges, and emerging trends through practical scenarios
Gain practical guidance on family status accommodation in British Columbia. This webinar examines evolving case law, caregiving responsibilities, accommodation obligations, and real-world workplace scenarios affecting employers, unions, HR professionals, and legal practitioners.
Discrimination and Harassment at Work: Discipline, ADR, and Practical Remedies
Learn how employers, unions, HR professionals, and legal practitioners can respond effectively to workplace discrimination and harassment. Explore discipline, ADR options, investigations, legal remedies, and evolving workplace obligations.
Lancaster’s Workplace Essentials: Investigations
Develop a practical understanding of workplace investigations and the legal principles that guide them. Explore investigation procedures, union involvement, disclosure requirements, investigator selection, and best practices for conducting fair and effective investigations.
Reading it Right: Essential and emerging principles of collective agreement interpretation
Develop practical skills for interpreting collective agreements with confidence. Explore key rules of interpretation, contextual analysis, past practice, negotiating history, statutory rights, and recent arbitration developments affecting unionized workplaces.
Collective Bargaining Essentials: Skills, tools, and strategies for effective collective bargaining
SIGN UP FOR MORE INFORMATION BUY NOW Live Virtual Workshop – $995.00 Ottawa Labour Law Conference quantity Add to Cart Overview Pricing Speakers CPD Information Workshop Overview Achieving successful bargaining outcomes requires strategy, skill, and the acumen to adapt. In this workshop, experts will guide participants through the process of bargaining from the first meeting of parties […]
Post-Incident Investigations (Virtual Event)
Develop practical skills for conducting thorough and effective post-incident investigations. Learn how to gather evidence, interview witnesses, identify root causes, document findings, and implement corrective actions that strengthen workplace safety and compliance.
Tackling Workplace Impairment: Identifying causes, addressing risks, providing accommodation
Explore the legal and practical challenges of workplace impairment, including substance use, fitness-for-duty assessments, accommodation obligations, drug and alcohol testing, privacy concerns, and disciplinary responses in safety-sensitive workplaces.
Bargaining Emerging Issues: AI, remote work, new leaves, and the changing workplace
Advances in technology and evolving workplace operations will require the modernization of collective agreements. This webinar will prepare attendees to address emerging issues in the workplace, such as artificial intelligence (“AI”) and remote work, during bargaining. Specifically, the panel will answer the following questions:
What aspects of the use of AI, such as algorithmic management, should be addressed through bargaining and collective agreement language? Do standard “technological change” provisions effectively address concerns about the impact of AI on the workforce?
Addressing Gambling, Technology, & Pornography Addictions at Work: Legal and Human Rights Obligations
Gain practical guidance on managing gambling, technology, and pornography addictions in the workplace. Learn how employers and unions can balance accommodation, privacy, discipline, and human rights obligations while responding to complex workplace challenges.
Winning Pre-Hearing Strategies: Navigating delays, settlements, and disclosure requirements
In this webinar, attendees will examine guiding legal principles and best practices during the pre-hearing stage. Specifically, speakers will address the following questions: How should parties assess the merits of a case and determine whether arbitration is appropriate or a settlement is feasible. When will mediation be indicated?
Labour Relations Certificate – Fall 2026 (Virtual Program)
Develop a strong foundation in labour relations through an interactive certificate program designed for HR professionals, union representatives, managers, lawyers, and workplace practitioners. Explore key labour relations concepts, current issues, and practical workplace applications.
Mental Health & Investigations: Best practices for effective, fair and trauma-informed processes
Learn best practices for conducting fair, effective, and trauma-informed workplace investigations involving mental health concerns. Explore procedural fairness, psychological safety, trauma-informed interviewing, accommodation, workplace harassment, and legal compliance.
Effective and Privacy-Compliant Medical Inquiries: Getting the right info from medical practitioners for accommodation, leaves, and return to work
Gain practical guidance on requesting medical information for workplace accommodation, leaves of absence, and return-to-work planning. Learn how to balance privacy rights, accommodation obligations, and legal compliance.
AI at Work: Human rights, privacy, and equity considerations for employers and unions
Gain practical guidance on the human rights, privacy, and equity challenges created by AI in the workplace. Learn how employers and unions can assess risks, manage compliance, and develop fair and legally defensible AI practices.