2010 Seminars

Disability Related Misconduct: Discipline or Accommodation?

1. Can an employer dismiss an employee for misconduct caused by a disability, or does the ‘duty to accommodate’ apply?
2. Must an employer investigate whether a disability played a role in an employee’s misconduct prior to imposing discipline?
3. Must an employee disclose a disability in order to trigger accommodation?
4. Are last chance agreements enforceable?
5. Can an employer require an employee who has been involved in addiction-related misconduct to undergo random drug testing?

Bill 168
Violence and Harassment in the Workplace
A Practical Guide to Managing The New Law

Slated to become law on June 15, 2010, Bill 168 amends the Occupational Health and Safety Act and places obligations on employers never before seen in Ontario.

At this HReview Seminar attendees will learn:

1. What are an employer's obligations under the new law?
2. The nuts and bolts of the policies and programs every employer must have in place.
3. What is a “risk assessment” and how is it performed?
4. What steps can be taken now to ensure workplace compliance before June 15, 2010?
5. What is at risk for a non-compliant employer?

Frequently Asked Employment & Labour Law Questions – And Then Some!

1. Our business is down. Can we just lay off some of our employees?
2. We have an employee who has been off sick for two months and won’t say when he is coming back to work. Can we treat him as having quit or abandoned his employment?
3. We want to change a few things in our pension plan / group health plan / long & short disability plan. Can we do this? How?
4. There have been a number of incidents of theft / property damage on our workplace. We’d like to install surveillance cameras. Can we?
5. What are our obligations toward an employee returning from maternity leave?
   • What if the replacement employee is a better worker and I would prefer to keep him/her?
   • What if the returning employee’s position does not exist any longer?
   • What if there has been a reorganization of the workplace the returning employee’s position is now performed by three people in different departments?