Agenda
Have you fulfilled your Bill 168 obligations? Have your policies proven to be effective? How can they be improved? How are they interacting with other policies and your business/operations?
How do you deal with situations of domestic violence that impact upon your workplace? How do you deal with an employee misusing the policy/program or making a false claim? How do you identify a person with a history of violent behaviour? To what extent should you be concerned about off duty conduct of employees?
This program will address the following topics:
Review of Bill 168
An update of the law and review of relevant cases: arbitration and ORLB decisions
Practical and strategic considerations to help you navigate your way through the issues:
- risk assessment
- all-in-one policies
- difficult domestic violence issues
- persons with a history of violent behaviour
- false claims and policy misuse
- off duty conduct
- MOL enforcement
- intersection with other areas of the law
In the context of workplace harassment, we will discuss the Rules of Professional Conduct as they apply to in-house counsel dealing with harassment situations
- confidentiality
- avoidance of conflict of interest
- dealing with the unrepresented person
- the lawyer as possible witness
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This program has been accredited by the Law Society for 0.5 Professionalism Hour This program is also eligible for up to 1.0 Substantive Hours |