Building a Discrimination-Free Workplace: Legal Insights and Best Practices.
Workplace safety includes a commitment to remain free from discrimination, harassment, and wrongful conduct. This is no easy feat to achieve. Many companies overlook this area, and many employees are unaware of their rights.
This course, by a leading workplace legal expert, provides a step-by-step guide to ensure that employees and employers know how to steer clear of problems by creating and operating in a culture that avoids discriminatory practices.
David Harris examines the common pitfalls in workplace practices and the case law that has shaped Canada’s legal framework. He explores the best features of successful firms and the remedies available when workplaces fail to provide safe conditions. His course is a definitive guide for companies and their employees to navigate the changing landscape.
13 activities • 28 videos • duration: 2h 46m
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David Harris is one of Canada’s authorities on workplace law. He has practiced in the field of rights and responsibilities of employers and employees for decades. He is a senior lawyer practicing in Toronto in the areas of wrongful dismissal and employment law, human rights, workers’ compensation, post-employment competition, restraint of trade, fiduciary obligations, labour law, sexual harassment, employment contracts and several related areas of employment law and litigation.
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The Courts and Legislators have lost sight of how a society survives and thrives. It is based on firstly, acceptance that capitalism, although imperfect, is the best and objectively proven to be the system that improves the health and well-being of the greatest number of citizens. And secondly, that capitalism is dependent on on the decisions by the risk-takers to use their capital and other resources to succeed in the cut throat world of competition. No employer ever makes a decision that he/she believes will harm the organization. And in this climate where it is clear that reduced productivity is the root cause of the end of economic prosperity, the causes are rooted in interference in areas that should be the within the sole control of the risk-takers. Human Rights Tribunals could not manage a lemonade stand profitably, and neither could most Judges. The pendulum has swung too far, and the writing is on the wall.
