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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.

Bargaining from Start to Finish: What to expect, what to avoid

Develop the skills needed to navigate collective bargaining in Ontario’s broader public sector. Explore bargaining strategy, negotiation techniques, equity-focused approaches, stakeholder engagement, and practical tools for successful labour relations outcomes.