Employment Law Canada

09:00 - Registration and coffee
09:30 - Overview of the employment law framework in Canada
(a) Federal/Provincial jurisdiction
· Employer registrations
(b) Union
· Canadian Labour Law Framework
· Collective agreements
· Grievances
Non-Union
· Employment contract
· Litigation

10:15 - Hiring employees in Canada
· Background screening
· Criminal/credit checks
· Drug and alcohol testing

11:00 - Coffee
11:15 - Contracts of employment/concepts and key terms
· Establishing a contract
· Statutory minimum terms (overview - typical ESA obligations).
o Leaves of absence
o Hours of work/overtime
o Vacation pay
· Standard benefits
o Insured benefits
o State benefits (OHIP, etc.)
o Employer sponsored retirement benefits and savings plans (CAP's, SERPs, etc.)
o Social security (EI/CPP/ITA).

12:00 - Day to day employee management
· Absence management
· Duty to accommodate
· Employer right to medical information
· Making changes to an employee's terms and conditions of employment
· Employee communications with regard to benefits/benefit changes
· Plan sponsor obligations - ongoing maintenance of benefits plans
· Pay equity/equal pay for equal work
· Privacy
· WSIA/OHSA

13:00 - Lunch
14:00 - Termination of employment
· Just cause examples
· Without cause
o statutory minimums
o common law claims

14:45 - Practical advice:non-union employees
· Employment interviews
· Drafting offer letters
· List of contents for typical offer letter
· Restrictive covenants
· Termination
· Drafting termination documents, i.e. letters/releases

15:30 - Tea
15:45 - Collective agreements/union employees
· Certification of a trade union
· Hiring
· Progressive discipline
· Grievances
· Termination
· Labour disturbances
· Sale of a business
· Recent developments

16:15 - New developments
16:30 - End of seminar