Annual Firm Seminar - 2011

Our Annual Firm Seminar entitled "Human Rights, Privacy, Criminal Code Responsibility and ESA Amendments:  Managing a Changing Workplace Environment" was held on Friday, June 3, 2011 at The Sheraton Centre, Grand Ballroom, Lower Concourse at 123 Queen Street West in Toronto.  Our program focussed on recent important developments in the field of labour and employment law, with an emphasis on practical and proactive management advice.

Copies of all papers relied upon at the seminar are posted below.

FIRM SEMINAR PAPERS

• The Right to Privacy:  Fact or Fiction - Melane McNaught
• Digging Into Prohibited Grounds:  An Update on Workplace Accommodation - Daryn Jeffries
• Employee Background Checks - Peter Thorup
• Up In The Air:  Vilven v. Air Canada and the Future of Mandatory Retirement - Carla Nassar
• Upping the Ante:  The Application of the Criminal Code to Workplace Accidents - Brian MacDonald
• Wall Post, Job Toast:  Canada's First Facebook Firing - Deborah Hudson
• Employment Standards Act:  New Measures to Attack Complaints Backlog (and Other Issues) - Lauren Chang MacLean