Workshop Description
In this interactive workshop, participants will review several case scenarios that are based on judicial and administrative body decisions and real-life situations in the areas of duty to accommodate, discipline and discharge, and drug and alcohol testing. After introducing each case scenario, participants will have the opportunity to discuss in small groups the steps that could be taken to address the situation. Following a discussion in small groups, participants will have the opportunity to share their thoughts with the larger group. Finally, a labour and employment lawyer will guide attendees through the relevant considerations, legal risks, and best practices. 

Learning Objectives
The purpose of the workshop is to provide participants with the tools to deal with issues related to the duty to accommodate, discipline and discharge, and drug and alcohol testing. Rather than learning through a lecture style format, participants will learn by applying human resources concepts to real-life scenarios, through discussions with their peers, and by seeing how Courts and other tribunals have ruled with respect to the applicable situations. 

Participants can expect the case scenarios to deal with the following topics:

Duty to accommodate

• When is an employer’s duty to accommodate triggered
• When has an employer accommodated to the point of undue hardship
• How to establish that undue hardship has occurred
• An Employer’s right to seek medical information 
  

Discipline and discharge

• The role of progressive discipline in establishing just cause
• When has the threshold for just cause been met 
• Importance of investigating misconduct
  

Drug and alcohol testing:

• When are employers permitted to conduct drug and alcohol testing
• How to respond to a positive drug and alcohol test
• How does an addictions disability impact an employer’s legal obligations 
  

Open Forum
The workshop will conclude with an open forum period where attendees will have the opportunity to discuss labour and employment law issues that arose during the seminar or in the course of their work. Participants are encouraged to ask any questions that they need answers to. 

This session is presented in partnership with MLT Aikins LLP.

Agenda

• 8:00am – registration & buffet breakfast
• 8:30am – interactive workshop and group discussion
• 10:30am – refresh break
• 12:30pm – workshop ends

Price

CPHR SK Member - $125.00 + tax
Non- Member - $175.00 + tax
Student - $50.00 + tax

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Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Hours

4.0 CPD Hours

Presented by

Shane Buchanan, CPHR
Lawyer, MLT Aikins LLP
Saskatoon, SK

Shane Buchanan maintains a general labour and employment practice. With a background in human resources and a CPHR designation, Shane provides an understanding of the issues faced by human resources professionals and provides practical solutions to all areas of labour and employment law, including collective agreement interpretation, workplace policies, discipline and discharge, employment contracts, OH&S, workers’ compensation, labour standards and human rights, including the duty to accommodate.