Advanced Seminars in Facilitating Accommodation in the Workplace
With over 28 years of service to the community and highly acclaimed instructors, Reach Canada is ideally positioned to help you attain these goals. We provide customized advanced seminars designed to help senior officials, managers, and employees understand and negotiate the realities of today's increasingly difficult accommodation issues.
Topics will be developed in conjunction with your Department according to your specific needs. Topics requested have included the following themes:
- Overview and Recent Trends on the Duty to Accommodate
- Job Performance vs. Duty to Accommodate
- Disability Management (including Return-to-work)
- Dealing with Accommodation including the medical/legal aspects
- When Accommodation Fails/Terminating an Employee with a Disability
- Long -Term Disability
- Employment and Mental Health/Mental Illness
- Environmental Sensitivities
- Invisible disabilities (e.g. chronic pain, fibromyalgia, anxiety, depression & mood disorders) and the Duty to Accommodate
- Learning Disabilities
- Alternative Dispute Resolution as a Strategy for Resolution and Accommodation
- Stigma Surrounding Disability in the Workplace
- Family Status and Other Human Rights-Based Accommodation
- Religious Diversity/Challenges in the Multi-faith Workplace
Our Advanced Seminars in Accommodation go beyond the mere letter of the law and aim to engage participants in the spirit behind specific legislation and regulations.
Reach Canada instructors are experts in their given fields and include lawyers, psychologists, medical health practitioners, educators and members of consumer/disability organizations. The presenters often use case studies taken from real life situations and use various means to make the sessions interactive. There is always time for questions and answers at the end of each session.
Reach Canada will work with you and the speakers to determine the topic(s) that would best serve your participants at this time. Sessions can be customized according to your needs. For example, you may wish to hold sessions for senior officials only, for managers only, or for all staff.
