March 23, 2006: 12:30 p.m. EST

Playback: Monday, March 27, 3:30 - 5pm

Matt Certosimo

Employer Counsel
Borden Ladner Gervais

Anne Gregory

Union Counsel
CUPE

Jamie Knight

Employer Counsel
Filion Wakely Thorup Angeletti

Sheilagh Turkington

Union Counsel
Cavalluzzo Hayes Shilton McIntyre & Cornish

Some of the questions to be addressed:

• What obligations does an employer have to return disabled employees to work? How far does that obligation go? How long does it last?
• What recent changes have occurred in arbitration law? Workers' compensation statutes? Human rights legislation?
• To what extent must employees cooperate with their employers on their return to work? Can employees insist on returning to their original job? What if the job has been filled? What are the important elements of a reasonable alternative position? The same rate of pay? Status? Core job functions? Location?
• What is the union's role in helping an employee return to work? How can unions balance the rights of the returning employee with the interests of other employees? How should unions approach seniority rights? Job posting requirements?
• In what circumstances have arbitrators and tribunals found return-to-work conditions to be discriminatory? What steps must be taken to ensure that return-to-work conditions will satisfy the duty to accommodate?
• What medical information can employees be required to provide to their employer? To the union? To the workers' compensation board? What limits can be asserted by employees and their unions?
• Rehabilitation: what are the employee's obligations? Can employees refuse treatment without losing compensation benefits, or becoming subject to discipline? What are valid and effective methods for employers to monitor rehabilitation?
  

Here's what participants said about Lancaster's previous audio conferences:

"Good value for money. We had a number of us on the call for a very low price and we did not have to travel."
— Leslie Kerr, Regional Manager, Human Resources, Ryder Logistics and Transportation

"Excellent. Provided good, useful information. The technology was great!!!"
— Colleen Ionson, Labour Relations Officer, Ontario Nurses' Association

$195, plus GST (Registrations must be paid in advance of the audio conference). Registration costs are per listening site/telephone, so you can have any number of people listening at your location for one low price. Click here for registration information.