HRANS is pleased to partner with Wolters Kluwer CCH to bring you this online webinar.  

"A healthy society maximizes the opportunities for each individual to achieve self-worth while minimizing the conflict that inevitably arises when people are at cross-purposes."

The landscape of accommodation in the Canadian workplace is ever-changing.  Due to the sensitive but crucial nature of this content, employers, HR Managers, and legal practitioners, need to adapt effective best practices on how to best meet their duty to accommodate.

Many questions arise from 'grey areas' not addressed explicitly in the law, or are so current, they are not yet fully addressed in case law.  This webinar will supplement the new publication, Accommodation Issues in the Workplace, and provides at least some of the answers to these emerging accommodation questions.  This webinar will particularly address accommodation issues related to:

• mental health,
• religion,
• addiction,
• family issues (elderly parents, ill family members), and
• other groups such as sexual orientation, sexual identification, gender, age, etc.

The webinar will focus on the expectations employers need to strive for when accommodating job applicants, employees, and third parties.  It addresses essential information on best practices, case law, uncertainties, and undue hardship.

The webinar is designed to provide professionals with some key guide-posts so that they can move forward with confidence in terms of how to accommodate, how to respond, and how to escalate to external resources when faced with these workplace issues.

Note:  The webinar is accompanied by a complimentary copy of Jamie's book on Accommodation Issues in the Workplace.

Learning Objectives:

• How far does an employer have to go in order to satisfy its accommodation obligation?
• What is required to demonstrate undue hardship?
• When is a mental health issue properly characterized as a disabling mental illness?
• What medical information or other evidence is a employer entitled to insist upon?
• How do we separate issues of poor performance and poor behaviour from genuine issues that may require accommodation?
• What are some of the accommodation scenarios that might be faced?

Speaker

Jamie Knight, Partner, Filion Wakely Thorup Angeletti LLP

Price

HRANS Members save 15% off the list price with combined pricing at $84.15 (webinar and accompanying book) by simply mentioning your membership when ordering.  (regular price $99.00)

(to obtain the HRANS member price, you must have Human Resources Association of Nova Scotia selected in the Associations field in your online CCH customer profile)

How to Register

Ordering is done directly with Wolters Kluwer CCH online by clicking here.