Human rights issues arise on a daily basis in the workplace, yet they are increasingly more complex and challenging to manage – let alone litigate…
Training & Event Type: Conference / Seminar
Advantage CPD: Labour Relations – It’s 2017 and Everything Old is New Again
With the new Saskatchewan Employment Act, pending federal labour law reforms, Alberta’s Bill 4 amending who has the right to strike and Ontario legislation under review, the labour relations world appears to be filled with change – and yet for practitioners many of these changes seem familiar. For those operating under collective agreements, change is less certain…
Advantage CPD: The Future is Now – Pensions & Benefits Remastered
In this session, we will provide clients with information and strategies to assist them in their roles as employers or plan administrators to plan for key near term changes relating to pensions and benefits…
Advantage CPD: Professionalism Smorgasbord
We are back with our ever popular roundtable on legal ethics, just in time to meet your professionalism CPD requirements for 2016. This session is accredited for 1.5 hours of professionalism.
Advantage CPD: WSIB Hot Topics
Please join us to discuss the latest WSIB hot topics from 2016, and what is on the horizon for 2017…
Advantage CPD: Privilege – What You Need to Know
Privilege is a complex issue. It is important to identify and know how to deal with issues of privilege when they arise, which is frequently. You must know when privilege will attach to communications and information. You must also understand how privilege applies prior to (and in the course of) litigation, and in the context of settlement offers and employee terminations..
Advantage CPD: CPP – The Next Generation
Join guest panelist, Allan Shapira, Senior Actuary and Managing Director at Aon Hewitt…
Advantage CPD: Health and Safety at Work: An OHSA Update
With constantly evolving employer obligations under the Occupational Health and Safety Act (“OHSA”), including the recent coming into force of new substantive workplace harassment legislation, it is becoming increasingly difficult for companies to keep up with their health and safety obligations.
Making Sense of the Changing Workplaces Review
Since May 2015, two government-appointed Special Advisors have been undertaking the Changing Workplaces Review to consider the changing nature of the workplace, the causes behind those changes, and whether the Labour Relations Act, 1995 and the Employment Standards Act, 2000 require amendments to meet the challenges of today’s workplaces…
Revisiting Unjust Dismissals in Light of the Wilson Decision
What now? That is the question many federal employers are asking themselves following the Supreme Court of Canada’s decision in Wilson v. Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. In that decision, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that the “unjust dismissal” provisions of the Canada Labour Code prohibit without cause dismissals of non-unionized employees…