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Tag: Accommodation
EMS Matters Publishes an Article by Mark Mason and Stephanie Jeronimo
An article authored by Hicks Morley’s Mark Mason and Stephanie Jeronimo was published in the Winter 2014/2015 edition of EMS Matters. The article entitled, “Accommodating Mental Health Disabilities: What are Employers Obligated to Do?” discusses the importance of the duty to accommodate within the workplace. Mark and Stephanie address key issues that employers in the…
Human Rights in the School Board Sector
Agenda Human rights issues are becoming increasingly complex and more difficult to understand and manage. As both employers and service providers, school boards are faced with human rights challenges on a daily basis. As employers, human rights issues can arise in a variety of contexts – from benefits to accommodation to attendance management. As…
Human Rights Update 2014: Accommodation and the Diverse Workforce
Materials Case Law Summaries PowerPoint Presentation Slides Agenda As the workforce in Ontario has become increasingly diverse, the range and complexity of accommodation issues facing Ontario employers have also grown substantially. Keeping up with the continually-evolving legal landscape with respect to accommodation issues can be a challenge for many busy Corporate Counsel and Human Resources…
Reaching Out – Seventh Edition
Dear Friends, Welcome to the Fall Edition of Reaching Out. As we fall back an hour, we want to make sure that you do not feel like you are “falling back” in terms of current issues in labour and employment law that may affect your workplaces. In that regard, we have a full docket of…
2014 Fall Edition
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Reaching Out – Sixth Edition
Dear Friends, With summer heating up, burning human resources issues continue to smolder as well. At Hicks Morley, we hope that you are enjoying the summer sunshine and we welcome you to the Summer 2014 Edition of Reaching Out, designed to address a number of relevant practical issues of particular interest and application to management…
Ontario Human Rights Commission Releases New Policy on Mental Disabilities and Addictions
One of the most significant challenges facing employers today involves identifying, managing and accommodating mental health and addiction issues in the workplace. In June 2014, the Ontario Human Rights Commission (“the Commission”) issued a new policy dealing with this issue. The new policy, entitled Policy on preventing discrimination based on mental health disabilities and addictions,…
Andrew Zabrovsky Quoted in the National Post
Hicks Morley’s Andrew Zabrovsky was quoted in the National Post on Thursday, May 8, 2014 in an article entitled, “Employers need to be more flexible when work schedules conflict with childcare arrangements, court rules“. The article discusses the Federal Court of Appeal’s ruling to uphold its decision in Canada (Attorney General) v. Johnstone regarding an employer’s…
Federal Court of Appeal Upholds Johnstone, Clarifies Nature and Scope of Family Status Protections
On May 2, 2014, the Federal Court of Appeal unanimously upheld the findings of the Federal Court concerning an employer’s obligation to provide workplace accommodation for an employee’s childcare needs in Canada (Attorney General) v. Johnstone (“Johnstone“), a case that has garnered significant media attention. As the first decision from an appellate-level court on this…