This document is an agenda for the "Workplace Rights & Accommodations Forum" conference taking place March 29-30, 2016 in Toronto. The conference will cover topics such as determining duty to accommodate and undue hardship, recent discrimination case laws, privacy rights and responsibilities, and whistleblower policies. Distinguished speakers from law firms, organizations, and advocacy groups will discuss accommodating disabilities, religious beliefs, family status, an aging workforce, and managing harassment cases. The agenda lists times, speakers, and session details across both days of the conference.

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2. DISTINGUISHED FACULTY
Pnina Alon-Shenker
Associate Professor, Law and Business Department of
Ted Rogers School of Business Management
Ryerson University
Ian M. Campbell
Partner
Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP
Richard J. Charney
Global Head of Employment and Labour
Senior Partner
Norton Rose Fulbright
Celese Fletcher
Principal
The Fletcher Consultancy
Anne E. Grant
Mediator
AEG Dispute Resolution Services Inc.
Barbara Green
Partner
Robins Appleby LLP
Michael F. Horvat
Partner
Norton Rose Fulbright
Laurie Jessome
Partner
Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP
Laurie Kent
Partner
Koskie Minsky LLP
Inna Koldorf
Partner
Koldorf Stam LLP
Paul Macchione
Lawyer
Whitten and Lublin Employment Lawyers
Ardis McDonald
Manager – In Flight Services Absenteeism
& Productivity
Air Canada
Asha Rampersad
Lawyer
Bernardi Human Resource Law LLP
Marc A. Rodrigue
Associate
Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP
Michael Sherrard
Partner
Sherrard Kuzz LLP
Sandeep Tatla
Chief Diversity Officer
Ontario College of Trades
Paula Warnholtz
Assistant Director Labour Relations Policy
and Programs
Canadian Revenue Agency
Laura K. Williams
Principal
Williams HR Law Professional Corporation
Philip J. Wolfenden
Partner
Shields O’Donnell MacKillop LLP
David Yazbeck
Partner
Ravenlaw, Cameron, Ballantyne & Yazbeck LLP
Andrew N. Zabrovsky
Associate
Hicks Morley

3. Conference Highlights:
• Determining Duty to Accommodate and
Undue Hardship
• Discrimination Case Laws and Developments:
Disabilities, Family Status, Age and Much More
• Prevention Policies Vs. Restoration Policies
• Privacy: Know Your Rights and Responsibilities
• Latest on Whistle-blower policies: What Your
Workplace Needs to Know
and more…
The issue of accommodation is complex and
dynamic. It needs much attention in today’s
workplaces for it overlaps human rights, labour,
and employment laws. In addition, it has a significant
impact on employment relationships.
Insight Information’s WORKPLACE RIGHTS &
ACCOMMODATIONS FORUM forum will provide
you with a complete guideline in handling the
most complicated workplace accommodations
cases through in-depth analysis into case laws
and best practices. Regardless of which end of
the bargaining table you represent, this conference
will deliver you with the clarity and help you resolve
the various workplace rights and accommodations
challenges you face or may encounter.
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• Chiefs, Vice Presidents, Directors & Managers of:
- Human Resources
- Labour and Employee Relations
- Benefits, Compensation and Payroll
- Operations and Administrations
• Union Presidents, Business Agents, Stewards and
Committee Members
• In-house Counsel
• Employment and Labour Lawyers
• Mediators and Arbitrators
• Administrative Law Practitioners
• HR and Labour Relations Consultants
• Benefits and Pension Consultants
• Association Representatives
• Advocacy groups
WHO SHOULD ATTEND:

4. 8:15 | Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:40 | Welcome from Insight Information
8:50 | Co-Chair’s Opening Remarks
Richard J. Charney
Global Head of Employment and Labour Senior Partner
Norton Rose Fulbright
9:00 | Preventing and Eradicating Human Rights Violation in
Today’s Workplace: Tips, Tools and Procedures
Anne E. Grant
Mediator
AEG Dispute Resolution Services Inc.
Laura K. Williams
Principal
Williams HR Law Professional Corporation
• Identify practical measures that employers can implement
to prevent, mitigate and eradicate human rights violation cases
within the workplace
• Importance of taking action early
• Structural discrimination: detect the signs and symptoms
• Review the challenges, risks and exposures that structural
discrimination creates for organizations
10:00 | Determining Duty to Accommodate or Undue Hardship
Ardis McDonald
Manager – In Flight Services Absenteeism & Productivity
Air Canada
Andrew N. Zabrovsky
Associate
Hicks Morley
• When do I have to accommodate an employee?
• WSIB/WCB, third party insurers and human rights – how do these
correlate from a DTA perspective and how do their parameters differ?
• What does undue hardship really mean?
• What are the roles of all those involved (employer, employee, union,
third party) in DTA?
11:00 | Networking Break
11:15 | Disclosure of Personal and Medical Information to
Determine Accommodation
Barbara Green
Partner
Robins Appleby LLP
• Legal requirements and parameters of obligations
• Recent case law analysis
12:05 | Networking Luncheon
1:05 | Accommodation: The Best, or Something Less?
Richard J. Charney
Global Head of Employment and Labour Senior Partner
Norton Rose Fulbright
Paula Warnholtz
Assistant Director Labour Relations Policy and Programs
Canadian Revenue Agency
• How can the employer fulfill duty to accommodate?
• The obligations of the employee in the accommodation process
• Whether the employee can demand his or her ideal accommodation
• The role of a union in the accommodation process
• The employer’s recourse if a reasonable accommodation is refused
• When the duty to accommodate is satisfied
2:05 | Privacy in the Tech-Era: Your Rights and Responsibilities
Michael Sherrard
Partner
Sherrard Kuzz LLP
• Hiring based on social media content screening
• Employees privacy vs employer rights
• Employers responsibilities on workplace privacy
• Breeches and termination
2:55 | Networking Break
3:10 | Blowing a Whistle at Work: Legal Rights and Obligations
Inna Koldorf
Partner
Koldorf Stam LLP
David Yazbeck
Partner
Ravenlaw, Cameron, Ballantyne & Yazbeck LLP
• What is “whistleblowing”?
• Under what circumstances can an employee blow the whistle?
• What are some key elements of a whistleblower policy?
• When can an employee “go public”?
• What legislation exists to either facilitate whistleblowing or to provide
protection in the case of reprisal for whistleblowing?
4:10 | LGBT Rights at the Workplace: Changing Workplace Cultures
Marc A. Rodrigue
Associate
Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP
• Recent human rights developments and case law
• Rising LGBT trends in the Canadian workforce
• Thoughts on best practices for LGBT diversity and inclusion
• Resources for employers
4:50 | Co-Chair’s Closing Remarks and Conference Adjourns
for the Day
AGENDA
March 29, 2016

5. 8:30 | Continental Breakfast
8:50 | Co-Chair’s Opening Remarks
Ardis McDonald
Manager – In Flight Services Absenteeism & Productivity
Air Canada
9:00 | Accommodating an Aging Workforce
Pnina Alon-Shenker
Associate Professor, Law and Business Department of Ted Rogers
School of Business Management
Ryerson University
Philip J. Wolfenden
Partner
Shields O’Donnell MacKillop LLP
• Why it is important to accommodate the aging workforce - practical
and theoretical foundations
• What is the nature and scope of this legal duty?
• What are the difficulties and limits in applying this duty?
• How can (and should) the duty of accommodation be developed
and evolved?
• Recent case law review
10:00 | Family Status: What Triggers a Human Rights Violation
and How to Accommodate?
Michael F. Horvat
Partner
Norton Rose Fulbright
Paul Macchione
Lawyer
Whitten and Lublin Employment Lawyers
• The duty to accommodate family status – when is it triggered?
• How has the law developed and where might it go? Are there options?
• What are the obligations of the employers, employees and unions?
• The legal test to determine a human rights violation on the ground
of family status
• The Human Rights Commission “Policy and Guidelines on
Discrimination because of Family Status”
• Eye-opening decisions re: family status
• Dealing with a family status complaint and what is required
to “accommodate”
11:00 | Networking Break
11:15 | Managing Sexual Harassment and Violence Cases
in the Workplace
Celese Fletcher
Principal
The Fletcher Consultancy
Laurie Jessome
Partner
Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP
• Formal and informal complaints, including investigations requiring
union representation
• Reports made by third party observer (employee or
management member)
• An overview of recent case law and legislative developments
regarding workplace sexual harassment and violence in Ontario
• A discussion of employer’s risks and responsibilities
• A practical and focused discussion of strategies for conducting
effective investigation and managing legal risk
12:15 | Networking Luncheon
1:15 | Accommodating Mental Disabilities: Your Roles
and Responsibilities
Ian M. Campbell
Partner
Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP
Laurie Kent
Partner
Koskie Minsky LLP
• Examine the particular challenges faced by employers
when accommodating employees with mental health and
other ‘invisible’ disabilities
• Review the factors driving the increased prevalence of mental health
accommodation related claims/complaints
• Provide strategies to manage and/or reduce their occurrence
• For situations where such claims cannot be avoided, provide
strategies to effectively mitigate their direct and indirect costs
to both employees and employers
2:15 | Accommodating Religious Beliefs in the Workplace
Asha Rampersad
Lawyer
Bernardi Human Resource Law LLP
Sandeep Tatla
Chief Diversity Officer
Ontario College of Trades
• When is the duty to accommodate religious beliefs and practices
triggered under the Human Rights Code?
• Determining whether employee sincerely holds religious beliefs and
what documentation can you request?
• How to accommodate requests for variations in scheduling, religious
leave, and time off for religious holidays
• Is an employer obligated to pay an employee for time off to attend
religious holidays?
3:15 | Co-Chair’s Closing Remarks and Conference Concludes
AGENDA
March 30, 2016

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March 29 – 30, 2016
St. Andrew’s Club and Conference Centre | Toronto, ON