HALF-DAY INTENSIVE WORKSHOP

Effective and proactive management of return to work protocols can significantly improve cost outcomes related to most WSIB claims.  Applying interactive learning and real-life scenarios, topics for this half-day intensive workshop include:

• WSIB Return to Work Obligations: What are they?
• WSIB Players: Who are they and what is their role in the process?
• Common WSIB Return to Work Issues (and how to avoid them): Key challenges and proactive ways to address them.
• Human Rights and Return to Work: How does the duty to accommodate intersect with
  WSIB return to work obligations?
• Claim Costs: How ineffective management can impact claim costs and penalties.

HALF-DAY INTENSIVE WORKSHOP

Increasingly, requests for accommodation in the workplace focus on mental, not physical, disability.
Yet, understanding when a mental health issue may be a disability and how far the duty to accommodate a mental disability extends can be challenging for an employer.

This practical, half-day workshop provides participants with the knowledge and tools to confidently assess and respond to a request for mental health accommodation in the workplace.

Using interactive learning and real life-scenarios, topics include:

• Mental Disability vs. Workplace Woe: When does an ailment such as stress or anxiety require accommodation (and when does it not).
• Medical Documentation: How to obtain useful medical documentation related to mental disability.
• The Accommodation Process: How accommodation of a mental disability differs from accommodation of a physical disability, and ways to accommodate mental disability.

Leaves of Absence and Termination of Employment: When is an employer justified in placing an employee on a leave of absence, or terminating the employment relationship, for reasons related to a mental disability