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HR Compliance for the Hybrid Workplace

The Ontario Employment Law Conference is the best opportunity for employers to Learn the Latest about evolving and challenging HR compliance requirements for the changing workplace.

9:00 am

Welcome and Conference Opening


9:05 am

Jeremy Schwartz

Jeremy Schwartz

Workplace Harassment: Legal Compliance and Beyond

  • Obligations under legislation
  • Harassment in the remote workplace
  • Harassment as just cause vs willful misconduct under the Employment Standards Act, 2000
  • Overview of best practices for responding to and preventing harassment complaints
  • Can employees sue in the courts for sexual harassment?

9:50 am

Jeff Murray

Employee Liabilities For Related Entities and When Buying a Business

  • Common and related employer concepts explained and how related entities can be held liable to employees
  • Who is responsible for past service when buying a business and the risk of taking on liabilities such as for accrued vacation pay
  • Negotiating of new employment contracts with employees
  • How union bargaining rights and collective agreements can apply to related or successor employers in a restructuring or sale of business

10:30 am

Q&A + Break


10:45 am

ryan conlin

Ryan Conlin

Managing the Risk of Millions of Dollars in OHS Liability for Contractors

  • How employers can reduce the risk of liability for injuries suffered by employees of sub-contractors.
  • How to pre-qualify contractors
  • Strategies for creating an effective documentary record of due diligence
  • The special challenge of expert contractors
  • The consequences of the up-coming blockbuster Supreme Court decision in Sudbury

11:15 am

Haadi Malik

The Post-Pandemic Workplace

  • Do vaccination policies matter anymore?
  • Potential long term implications of caselaw arising from the pandemic
  • Can employers force employees back to the office?
  • Revisiting your policies (accommodation, sick leaves, remote work) in the wake of the pandemic

11:45 am

Morning Sessions Q&A


12:15 pm

Lunch Break


1:00 pm

First Reference Product Demo


1:15 am

Allison Taylor

Wrongful Dismissal Law Roundup

  • Deductibility of CERB benefits from wrongful dismissal damages
  • Recent notice period awards
  • When will employees be found to have failed to mitigate their damages
  • The latest on the enforceability of termination clauses

2:00pm

Landon Young

Compliance with the Employment Standards Act, 2000

  • New changes coming with Bill 79
  • “Use it or lose it policies” and vacation accruals
  • Overview of ESA policy requirements
  • The prohibition on non-competes
  • Overtime and common mistakes made by employers
  • ESA leaves of absence and EI sickness benefits changes

2:45 pm

Break


3:00 pm

Landon Young

Jeff Murray

Jeremy Schwartz

Jeremy Schwartz

ryan conlin

Ryan Conlin

Privacy Law Developments

  • Vicarious liability of employers for acts of employees
  • Does the “privacy tort” apply when companies with  personal information are hacked
  • Roundup of changes in privacy legislation

Employment Litigation in the Post-Pandemic World

  • How the courts are hearing cases and the post-pandemic backlog
  • Proceedings before employment and labour tribunals
  • Review of decision on labour arbitrations by Zoom

Artificial Intelligence in the Workplace

  • How A.I. may impact workplaces
  • Potential legal risks in using A.I. tools for employee hiring and management decisions
  • Legal trends addressing A.I. issues in other jurisdictions

New Competition Act Prohibitions on Poaching and Wage Fixing Agreements

  • Review of new prohibitions regarding wage-fixing and no-poaching agreements between employers
  • Exceptions to the new prohibitions
  • How these prohibitions may practically apply to employers

3:50 pm

Afternoon Sessions Q&A


4:00 pm

Closing Remarks and Conference Wrap-up

About First Reference

Established in 1995, First Reference is the leading publisher of up-to-date, practical and authoritative HR compliance and policy databases that are essential to ensure organizations meet their due diligence and duty of care requirements.

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