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AUDIO
CONFERENCE
Absenteeism and Attendance Management:
Current Issues, Innovative Approaches
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Wednesday, September 12,
2007
12:30
p.m. - 2:00 p.m. EDT
Playback:
Monday, September 17, 3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. EDT |
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| WHERE: |
Your
own office or boardroom |
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| MODERATOR: |
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Matthew Certosimo
Employer Counsel
Borden Ladner Gervais |
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| SPEAKERS: |
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Anne Gregory
Counsel
CUPE |
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Sandra Guarascio
Employer Counsel
Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP |
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ISSUES:
Arbitrators have declared that there are appropriate and inappropriate ways of dealing with absenteeism at the workplace. Join Lancaster's panel of experts as they canvass the latest legal developments in responding to employee absenteeism, including designing and administering effective Attendance Management Policies, establishing enforceable requirements for average attendance, the rules governing medical certificates, and more. No program dealing with attendance can ignore the impact of human rights legislation, so our panel of experts will also address the duty to accommodate employee disability, the right to terminate employment for innocent absenteeism, and the outer contours of "undue hardship." Topics will include:
- Can an attendance management policy include both 'culpable' and 'non-culpable' absences? What about absences caused by workplace injuries, disabilities, child and family care obligations, and emergency leave days?
- Attendance standards: Should they be sector or workplace specific?
- Medical certificate requirements: When can an attendance policy require a medical certificate?
- Does the duty to accommodate require employers to tolerate absenteeism? When does accommodating absenteeism cross the line and become undue hardship?
- The new tests governing discharge for innocent absenteeism: Is dismissing a disabled worker for innocent absenteeism discriminatory? Must the employer warn before dismissing for non-culpable absenteeism?
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| Q
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Gather
your colleagues around a speakerphone in your own office or boardroom. Have the
opportunity to ask questions in the Question & Answer portions of the sessions.
An additional 15 minutes will be added at the end of the session for those who
wish to continue with Q & A. |
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| MATERIALS: |
Valuable,
up-to-date materials and case summaries will be available for downloading from
our website. |
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| REGISTRATION
FEE: |
$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. |
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| CDs: |
Audio conference CDs, including a PDF copy of the materials from the conference, are available for $175 + GST per conference ($75 + GST for registrants). Click here to order. |
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| REGISTRATION
INFORMATION: |
When
you register, you'll be given a toll-free number to dial at the time of the session
and a PIN number for access. For additional program and registration information,
call Lancaster House at 416-977-6618 or register now. |
