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AUDIO
CONFERENCE
Probing Current Issues in Disability
Accommodation: an advanced session
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| WHEN: |
Thursday, April 10, 2008
12:30
p.m. - 2:00 p.m. EDT
Playback: Monday, April 14, 3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. EDT |
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| WHERE: |
Your
own office or boardroom |
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| MODERATORS: |
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Anne Gregory
Union Counsel
Canadian Union of Public Employees
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Noella Martin
Employer Counsel
Wickwire Holm |
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| SPEAKERS: |
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Ian Fellows
Union Counsel
Green & Chercover |
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Rob Sider
Employer Counsel
Lawson Lundell |
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ISSUES:
By popular demand, Lancaster House brings together a panel of experts to update listeners on the most recent developments in the outer limits of the law of accommodation. In this special advanced session, our panel will focus on current approaches to the most difficult issues generated by the duty to accommodate, including:
- What factors can an employer take into account in determining whether accommodative measures would cause undue hardship? Only those listed in human rights legislation? Or such concerns as productivity, operational efficiency, effect on morale and/or impact on collective agreement rights?
- Is an employer required to accommodate an employee who fails to identify a disability and/or to request accommodation, or even denies a disability?
- How far does the employer have to look beyond an employee's original job in order to fulfill the duty to accommodate? When will it be required to bundle duties, reassign duties from other employees or create special light-duty positions?
- Does the duty to accommodate require employers to tolerate absenteeism or below average productivity? Adjust hours of work?
- When can the employer hold a disabled worker out of service or refuse a proposed accommodation on safety grounds? Are employees entitled to assume risk?
- Can collective agreement provisions be "waived" in the search for accommodation? How should the union balance its duty of fair representation to the bargaining unit as a whole with its obligation to facilitate the accommodation of disabled workers?
- To what extent are employees required to cooperate with the accommodation process? Must employees participate in treatment? Can employers hold employees out of service or terminate for not facilitating accommodation?
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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 an access code to join the call. For additional program and registration information,
call Lancaster House at 416-977-6618 or register now. |
