Duty to Accommodate - Halifax
Cutting-Edge Solutions to Your Most Difficult Accommodation Challenges
Conference: November 18 and 19, 2008
Workshop: November 20, 2008
Westin Nova Scotian · Halifax, Nova Scotia
Conference Event Overview
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Proven and innovative strategies to enhance accommodation and return-to-work policies in your workplace
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- Learn how to effectively assess and accommodate mental illness and workplace stress to support employees and maintain a healthy, productive workforce
- Discover how a healthy workplace and work-life balance can benefit more than just your employees
- Hear about the best return-to-work strategies for physical and non-physical disabilities
- Enhance your understanding of family status and other recent accommodation trends for maintaining a healthy work-life balance
- Understand how recent updates in federal legislation and case law will affect your workplace strategies
- Share best practices in effective communications between employee, employer, and union
- Find out how to deal with termination when an employee cannot be accommodated: assessing "undue hardship" and avoiding claims of wrongful dismissal
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Increasing disability claims, rising insurance costs, and more shortand long-term disability claims from workers has made it difficult for departments to maintain productivity levels. Your workplace accommodation policies have been impacted by waves of changes to human rights legislation and recent federal case law. You're facing ever-increasing pressure to accommodate a growing list of situations: an aging workforce, mental illness, stress-related disabilities, and chronic absenteeism. You can't afford to be caught uninformed and unprepared!
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For the past six years, INFONEX has provided HR professionals with proven solutions and answers that help build sound policies and implement programs to meet the accommodation challenges of today's diverse work environment. INFONEX's 7th annual Duty to Accommodate conference returns to Halifax to give you crucial information you need to meet your duty to accommodate and ensure the long-term viability of your employees.
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Get an extensive look at approaches to accommodation that have worked for other organizations. Learn how to effectively deal with chronic absenteeism, investing in your employees, and common employer mistakes and misconceptions in approaching their duty to
accommodate. Understand the practical strategies needed for successful return-to-work programs and the creation of healthier workplaces. Learn how to remove employment barriers for employees with disabilities. Make your organization proactive rather than reactive to its duty to accommodate.
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Don't miss out on this chance to share information, exchange ideas
on trends and learn best practices in employee accommodation -- Register now to take advantage of
this valuable information session and return to your office well-prepared to face
all your accommodation challenges!
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Who Should Attend This Event
- Executive Directors, Directors, and Managers of Human Resources
- Attendance and Accommodation Managers
- Human Resources Advisors/Return-to-Work Coordinators
- Health and Safety Officers and Occupational Health Nurses
- Health and Benefit Officers and Claims Managers
- Disability Management Consultants
- Employee Relations Specialists/Consultants
- Union Counsel and Representatives
- Arbitrators and Mediators
- Labour and Employment Lawyers
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