Successfully Managing the Duty to Accommmodate:

Acquire the Knowledge, Skills and Tools to Successfully Manage the Duty to Accommodate
    

Benefits Of This Program:

• Get accommodation right
• Manage challenges without triggering avoidable liabilities
• Avoid escalating costs for non-compliance
• Rethink the way work is done, the structure of workplaces, according
• to the current legal model of accommodation 

Learn: 

• How to meet your obligation to ensure a more inclusive workplace
• Understand the scope of the expanding accommodation obligations
• How to implement strategies and policies to position your workplace to successfully deal with accommodation issues
• How to deal successfully with the specific accommodation challenges: disability-related absenteeism, substance abuse, disability impacting performance, psychiatric disabilities, stress; needs attending: pregnancy, aging, religious observance; accommodation in the unionized setting
• How to avoid expanding liabilities for getting accommodation wrong  

Agenda

The Fundamentals:  

• The current scope of the duty to accommodate in the post-Meiorin world
• The impact of the duty to accommodate on the workplace and the employment relationship
• Understanding and working with the key concepts relevant to implementing accommodation
• Multi-party obligations: The rights and responsibilities of necessary parties:  employer,
• accommodee, union, other employees
• Dealing with accommodation in a unionized setting
• Successfully dealing with specific accommodation issues: disability-related absenteeism,
• substance abuse, aging workforce, psychological disabilities, the pregnant employee,
• WSIB issues, religious observance, family status 

The Implementation Demands 

• Successfully managing the multi-party responsibilities
• Understanding and implementing the accommodation process requirements
• Developing and implementing effective accommodation policies
• and protocols
• Successfully managing the issue of medical information
• How to secure the support and commitment for accommodation
• within your organization? 

Successfully Managing The Real Accommodation Issues 

• Disability-related absenteeism
• Performance issues related to accommodation needs
• The pregnant employee
• The aging employee
• The WSIB employee
• Substance abuse/addiction issues
• Accommodation in a unionized setting
• Psychiatric disabilities
• Perceived disabilities
• Non-evident disability issues
• Managing the challenge of access to medical information 

Why Your Management Group And Organization

Will Benefit From This Program  

• All workplaces are facing accommodation challenges on an increasingly regular basis
• Human rights complaints relating to accommodation issues are rapidly increasing
• The current legal model of accommodation demands a serious rethinking of how
• we structure our workplaces and work
• Your organization requires new knowledge, new skills and policies and strategies to
• ensure compliance
• Liabilities for non-compliance are rapidly escalating - risk of exposure to years of lost wages 
  

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How to Book An In-House Program

For further information on this program contact Barbara Humphrey's assistant Carolin Jewczyk at cjewczyk@sbhlawyers.com or 705-727-0808 Toll-Free 1-866-878-6253