Guides/Documents Personal Security Handbook Minimizing Risks to Personal Safety for You, Your Family, Friends and Colleagues May 16, 2023 The potential danger associated with the life of those in the legal profession is an unpleasant topic of conversation among family, friends and staff, but avoiding the subject does not lessen the potential for harm.
Complimentary Archived Video The new Strengthening Post-Secondary Institutions and Students Act: Implications for Institutions, Employees and Students May 05, 2023 By July 1, post-secondary institutions in Ontario are required to have provisions in place addressing how sexual misconduct by employees towards students will be handled in accordance with Bill 26, the Strengthening Post-Secondary Institutions and Students Act.
Complimentary Archived Video Promoting Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in Legal Workplaces February 28, 2023 This program discusses some of the steps that law firms and other legal workplaces are taking to promote equity, diversity and inclusion in the field of labour and employment law.
Complimentary Archived Video Concurrent Jurisdiction: Navigating Human Rights Issues in Unionized Workplaces January 16, 2023 In Weilgosh v. London District Catholic School Board, the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario recently confirmed that it has concurrent jurisdiction with labour arbitrators over the human rights complaints of unionized employees.
Complimentary Archived Video Best Practices for Representing Marginalized Employment Law Clients June 09, 2022 Join our expert panel of legal aid clinic practitioners and private bar lawyers as they consider some of the unique ethical challenges, professionalism obligations, and strategic considerations that arise while representing low-income and/or marginalized clients in employment law matters.
Complimentary Archived Video New Minimum Standards for Gig Workers: Understanding the Implications of Bill 88 May 16, 2022 Ontario’s Working for Workers Act, 2022 (Bill 88), which enacts the Digital Platform Workers’ Rights Act, 2022, provides a new minimum wage and other foundational rights for digital platform workers.
Complimentary Archived Video Electronic Monitoring of Employees: What You Need to Know About Bill 88 and its New Requirements May 05, 2022 Ontario’s Bill 88, Working for Workers Act, 2022, introduces new and ground-breaking amendments to the Employment Standards Act, 2000, including requiring certain employers to prepare policies about any electronic monitoring of employees.
Complimentary Archived Video Enforcing COVID-19 Vaccination Policies: The Latest Word from Adjudicators January 25, 2022 Following a busy fall full of COVID-19 vaccination policy rollouts and challenges to the policies by labour unions and employees, labour arbitrators are beginning to issue decisions based on these disputes.
Complimentary Archived Video Employees’ “Right to Disconnect” from Work: Key Labour and Employment Insights December 17, 2021 Ontario recently enacted new laws to amend the Employment Standards Act, 2000, and is the first province to pass a law about the “right to disconnect”.
Complimentary Archived Video Considerations for Conducting Trauma-Informed Workplace Investigations and Dealing with Microaggressions and Unconscious Bias November 30, 2021 As workplace investigations have become more commonplace, employers are now faced with a multitude of considerations both in the selection of an investigator and how the investigation will be conducted.