Successfully Managing the Duty to Accommodate Employees with Disabilities

Benefits Of This Program:

• Manage challenges without triggering avoidable liabilities
• Avoid escalating costs for non-compliance
• Restructure the workplace and the way work is done according to the current legal model of accommodation

Learn:

• How to meet your obligation to ensure a more inclusive workplace
• The scope of the expanding accommodation obligations
• How to implement strategies and policies to position your workplace to successfully deal with accommodation issues
• How to deal successfully with specific accommodation challenges: disability-related absenteeism, substance abuse, disability impacting performance, psychiatric disabilities, stress; special attendance to: pregnancy, aging, religious observance; accommodation in the unionized setting
• How to avoid expanding liabilities for incorrect accommodation

Agenda

The Fundamentals

• Current scope of duty to accommodate
• Impact of duty to accommodate on the workplace and the employment relationship
• Understanding and working with the key concepts relevant to implementing accommodation
• Multi-party obligations; rights and responsibilities of necessary parties: employer, accommodated employee, union, other employees
• Dealing with accommodation in a unionized setting
• Successfully dealing with specific accommodation issues: disability-related absenteeism, substance abuse, aging workforce, psychological disabilities, the pregnant employee, WSIB issues, religious observance, family status

Implementation Demands

• Successfully managing multi-party responsibilities
• Understanding and implementing accommodation process requirements
• Developing and implementing effective accommodation policies and protocols
• Successfully managing medical information
• Securing support and commitment for accommodation within your organization

Successfully Managing The Real Accommodation Issues

• Disability-related absenteeism
• Performance issues related to accommodation needs
• The pregnant employee
• The aging employee
• The WSIB employee
• Substance abuse/addiction issues
• Accommodation in a unionized setting
• Psychiatric disabilities
• Perceived disabilities
• Non-evident disability issues
• Managing the challenge of access to medical information

Why Your Management Group And Organization Will Benefit From This Program

• All workplaces are facing accommodation challenges on an increasingly regular basis
• Human rights complaints relating to accommodation issues are rapidly increasing
• Current legal model of accommodation demands a serious rethinking of workplace and work structure
• Your organization requires new knowledge, new skills and policies, and strategies to ensure compliance
• Liabilities for non-compliance are rapidly escalating with risk of exposure to years of lost wages

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