Managing Your Duty to Accommodate
Improving Policy, Ensuring Proper Procedures, and Developing Beneficial Techniques for Meeting Your Duty to Accommodate
August 29 and 30, 2011 · Optional Workshops: August 31, 2011
CALGARY, ALBERTA
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Event Overview
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Erika L. Ringseis
Senior Legal Counsel,
Corporate Legal Services
TransCanada
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Audrey Dean
Senior Legal Counsel
Alberta Human Rights Commission
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A. Robson Garden, QC
Counsel
MacPherson Leslie
& Tyerman LLP
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Peter Chung
Team Leader, Human Resources
National Energy Board
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Michael Watt
Partner, Labour & Employment Group
Alexander Holburn Beaudin
& Lang LLP
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Suzanne McIntosh
Coordinator, Wellness Program
University of Lethbridge
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Lisa Moon
Executive Director
Champions Career Centre
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Jan Leighton
Program Coordinator, Disability Management
TransCanada
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Carol Laisnez
Principal
Dynamic Insight Corp.
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Ron Beach
Program Consultant, Addiction Prevention
Alberta Health Services
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Frank Byrnes
President
Human Potential
Consultants Inc.
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Nicole Jelley
Director
Catalyst Solutions Group Corp.
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Coreen Lawrence
Mediator
Preferred Method Mediation
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Chris Hylton
Principal
CG Hylton & Associates Inc.
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Take home insight from experienced professionals
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- Alberta Union of Provincial Employees (AUPE)
- Alberta Human Rights Commission
- MacPherson Leslie & Tyerman LLP
- Human Potential Consultants Inc.
- Alexander Holburn Beaudin & Lang LLP
- Champions Career Centre
- University of Lethbridge
- Alberta Health Services
- Dynamic Insight Corp.
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- TransCanada
- City of Edmonton
- National Energy Board
- Viable Calgary
- Field LLP
- CG Hylton & Associates Inc.
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- Imperial Oil Limited
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Implement Programs That Ensure Effective Accommodation
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- Identify your responsibilities as an employer and those of your employee
- Learn to take the proper course of action in controversial situations
- Take advantage of tips on how to engage mature workers, resulting in improved productivity and long-term benefits
- Hear from legal counsel, occupational medicine professionals, and provincial services as they provide solutions to the most difficult accommodation issues
- Understand the policies and procedures to avoid undue hardship
- Learn how to avoid human rights claims
- Experience hands-on exercises which will develop strategies managers and supervisors will use in resolving accommodation issues
- Learn to establish a cost-effective return-to-work program
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Your duty to accommodate is crucial for long-term productivity. As employers, supervisors and industry resource people, you need to be kept up to date on strategies in dealing with day-to-day problems as well as extraordinary incidents. As the workplace dynamics change, new difficulties arise when it comes to issues such as absenteeism, safety in the workplace, and family status. Being unaware of your responsibilities and limitations could be devastating and costly.
INFONEX's Managing Your Duty to Accommodate will provide you with all of the knowledge you need to be able to handle the most challenging workplace situations. Training will be provided through interactive case study examples and analyses of the most recent case law. The solution to your dilemma and accommodation issues is here at this conference, and you will be taught how to establish proactive policies and improve procedures.
This event brings you an expert faculty of professionals - legal counsel, provincial employees, union representatives, and professionals in labour-intensive industries - who've learned to master and resolve accommodation challenges. You'll learn the techniques you need to to keep your workplace running efficiently. Don't hesitate - thousands across the country have gained the INFONEX advantage. Join them and register today!
Who Should Attend This Event
This training session is for anyone who has to deal with accommodation and disability management. Past attendee titles have included:
- HR Directors, Managers and Advisors
- Labour Relations Managers and Advisors
- Legal Counsel
- Health and Safety Officers
- EAP Managers
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- Managers of Disability Management and Return to Work
- Managers of Attendance Management
- Directors of Compensation and Benefits
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