At Rubin Thomlinson we use our experience in conducting workplace investigations across Canada to deliver relevant, engaging, and impactful webinars on the latest topics, updates, trends, and a range of key issues.
Complimentary Webinars:
In recent months, millions of people have called on businesses, governments, and communities to address anti-Black racism. These calls to action come in the wake of unprecedented global protests against the tragic deaths of African Americans, George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, and Indigenous-Black Canadian Regis Korchinski-Paquet.
People feel harassed based on an intuitive sense of what constitutes inappropriate behaviour. But people have different personal standards regarding interpersonal conduct. Nevertheless, the law of workplace harassment has an objective component – what would a reasonable person think and feel in a particular set of circumstances? Would the person feel harassed? Is the behaviour, objectively, harassing? These are difficult questions for HR professionals and investigators to answer.
Parallel workplace and criminal investigations can lead to some of the thorniest issues workplace investigators have to grapple with. In this session, we will dive into these questions, provide an overview of important criminal law concepts and examine how workplace investigations, including university sexual violence investigations, can be affected by criminal cases.
Join Janice Rubin and criminal lawyer Angela Chaisson for an hour “refresher” on the law of consent and how it applies to the workplace, university and college environments.
Employment and occupational health and safety legislation exists to ensure that people can be paid for their work and do their work in a safe, fair environment. Punishing someone for asserting the rights, which are guaranteed by this legislation, constitutes a “reprisal.” Even though reprisals are strictly prohibited in this legislation, they occur all the time in the workplace. Employers need to be aware of the risks of engaging in reprisal in order to effectively prevent harassment in the workplace.
The legal requirements on how to prevent and address workplace harassment and violence will change for employers in federally-regulated industries after Bill C-65 comes into force later this year. Are you ready?
To prepare, you will want to ensure that your policies, employee training, incident prevention protocol, resolution procedure and investigation process all comply with the new requirements.
