Registration opens at 12:30 p.m.

Attend this workshop to gain a complete, updated roadmap to addressing enduring grey areas and dilemmas – and how to ensure that your policies are in line with Charter and other legal considerations.

The Scope of the Duty to Accommodate

• The lengths and limits of the duty to accommodate: Key and recent case law-and their practical implications
• Determining when a task is a BFOR – and when it is not: Concrete examples
• The role of the employer versus the union in the accommodation process
• Managing the costs of accommodation
• Addressing poor performance, discipline issues and patterns of negative behaviour when mental health is a consideration

Managing Operations

• Assessing stress leave entitlement in the absence of mental/physical disability diagnosis
• Accommodating employees with mental health leave, sick leave and parental leave
• Determining how to accommodate physical and disabilities
• Accessing medical and other documentation: How far you can go in communicating with the employee, the union, legal counsel, medical professionals, and insurance companies
• Providing adequate support during internal investigations

Return-to-Work Strategies

• Building tailored, employee-specific strategies versus a one-size-fits-all policy
• Keeping employees on the job and in the workplace versus paid leave
• Deciding if and when to move ahead with employee dismissals and transfers