The Inclusive Workplace:

Positioning Supervisors and Management to Successfully Contribute to the Respectful Workplace
     

Supervisors And Managers Without Knowledge Of Current Obligations To The Quality Of The Work Environment Risk Exposing Themselves And The Employer To Increasing Liabilities

Benefits Of This Program: 

• Learn to comply with expanding equality rights obligations
• Understand the broadening of "harassment"
• Implement strategies to ensure an acceptable workplace environment
• Avoid risk of exposure to expanding liabilities for equality rights non-compliance                       
• Position yourself to make necessary contributions to equality rights compliance 

Learn: 

• Scope of current expectations for inclusive workplaces and acceptable workplace interactions: expanding definition of harassment, higher standards
• of conduct for supervisors and managers, new harassment risks: age, gender orientation, personal harassment, harassment of accommodees; personal harassment; kinder, gentler workplace
• Impact of broadening scope of harassment on your obligations as a supervisor and manager
• The requirements of an inclusive workplace in the post-Meiorin world
• Scope of your responsibility for the quality of the work environment
• Update: expanding liabilities attending failure to meet equality rights obligations
• Meet your obligations with respect to the quality of the work environment: civil, respectful and safe environment, equality rights compliance 

What You Will Learn! 
    

Substantive Knowledge Of The Current Equality Rights Issues

• Changing parameters of harassment under the Code: new developments, scope of conduct: single incidents? Scope of victim? Scope of workplace; new harassment priorities: aging employees, gender orientation, disability
• New developments: supervisors' and managers' escalating responsibilities and
• accountabilities for harassment-free workplaces
• Emerging standards for workplaces: "civil", "respectful", "kinder", "gentler" workplaces
• New management obligations to deliver civil and respectful workplaces and workplace interactions
• Supervisors' and managers' practical and legal obligation 

Positioning You As A Supervisor And Manager To Meet Your Obligations For Prevention, Deterrence And Resolution 

• Legal obligations - due diligence
• Practical obligations - strategies to secure an acceptable workplace environment
• Communications
• Supporting and empowering employees for self-help
• How to provide effective advisory support?
• Understanding the advantages of early informal resolution
• How the supervisor and manager can contribute to successful
• early informal resolution

Be Knowledgeable: Understand The Costs And Consequences Of Workplace Environments And Workplace Interactions Inconsistent With The Current And Emerging Standards

•  Impact on workplace and workplace participants: the employer,employees, managers, supervisors, victims, individuals whose conduct falls below required standards
• Update: Increasing liabilities for non-compliance, shared liabilities
• New developments: no limits on general damages; increasing wage loss
• liabilities (i.e. ten years); more aggressive interventions into the workplace 

Benefits Of Program To Employers, Supervisors And Managers 

• Positions supervisors and managers to reduce the risk of workplace environments and interactions that falls below current standards
• Reduces the risk of exposing the company, supervisors and managers to escalating liabilities
• Increases supervisor's/manager's ability to effectively support human rights compliance
• in the workplace
• Positions employers, supervisors and managers to meet "due diligence" obligation

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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