HReview Seminars

2007 Seminars

November 20, 2007

Workplace Audits:
Employment Standards – Workers’ Compensation –
Occupational Health and Safety
Staying Ahead of the Curve

  1. Self Audits
    • Why perform a self audit?
    • Key components of an effective self-audit.
    • Now that you have the results, what do you do with them?
  2. Ministry of Labour Audits
    • Recent Ministry of Labour initiatives.
    • Is your workplace a probable target?
    • What to do when the auditor comes knocking.
    • Best practices to ensure a smooth audit process.
September 19, 2007

Employer Strategies to Improve Employee Attendance and Manage Medical Information

  1. Employer Rights.
  2. Culpable v. Innocent Absenteeism: The significance of the distinction and appropriate approaches.
  3. Medical Information: When, what and how?
  4. Balancing the Employer’s Need for Information Against the Employee’s Expectation of Privacy.
  5. Severance Strategies.
  6. Top Ten Tips To Manage Employee Absenteeism.
May 15, 2007

Whose Email Is It Anyway?
“IT” RELATED MISCONDUCT

  1. Monitoring employee use of the internet, email and PDAs - what are the boundaries?
  2. Passwords and privacy.
  3. Identifying IT related misconduct.
  4. Conducting the investigation - accessing data systems used by employees.
  5. Discipline arising from IT misconduct.
  6. Preserving evidence of misconduct for litigation.
  7. Employer obligations and potential liabilities.
March 28, 2007

Hiring and Firing: Do’s and Don’ts

  1. Job applications and interviews: what are the restrictions?
  2. Employment offers: when and how to make them.
  3. Employment contracts: the key to protecting your business.
  4. Termination meetings: where, how and who?
  5. Just Cause vs. Without Cause terminations: pros and cons.
  6. Termination offers: tips to limit your costs.
  7. Reference letters: reduce your stress.
January 18, 2007

Occupational Health And Safety In Ontario –
What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You

  1. “The duty to take every precaution reasonable” and other obligations imposed by the Act.
  2. Health and Safety Policies and Programs.
  3. Powers of Ministry of Labour Inspectors.
  4. Penalties faced by employers.
  5. Bill C-45 update.

Previous Seminars

  1. See 2002 Seminars
  2. See 2003 Seminars
  3. See 2004 Seminars
  4. See 2004 Seminars
  5. See 2006 Seminars
  6. See 2007 Seminars
  7. See 2008 Seminars
  8. See 2009 Seminars
  9. See 2010 Seminars
  10. See 2011 Seminars
  11. See 2012 Seminars
  12. See Current Seminar