The law regarding terms of employment and liabilities associated with the termination of the employment contract continues to evolve, as does the art and science of risk management in the workplace. Counsel – both management-side (including in-house counsel) and employee-side – as well as senior HR staff, continue to wrestle on a day-to-day basis with the challenges of making and amending agreements, managing change, and where termination is inevitable, conducting the process in a way that respects the law’s and society’s expectations of fairness and due process.

To prevail as an HR professional or lawyer in such an environment requires the most up-to-date knowledge, communicated clearly and at a level that goes well beyond the basics of well-settled law and practice.

That’s the awareness that has guided the experts who have contributed their skills and experience to Osgoode Professional Development’s new Intensive Short Course on Employee Contracts and Employee Terminations, and to its accompanying binder of practical and useful reference materials.

In addition to the topics noted on the first page of this brochure, the faculty will address such timely and significant issues as:

  • Establishing an effective nexus between the employment contract and organizational policies
  • Using the contract to detail remuneration, incentive structures and notice obligations
  • Termination for just cause – how the case is built or unbuilt, including the range of conduct (both in and outside the workplace) that can be considered and effectively documented
  • Best practices in identifying and dealing with high-risk/high-stress termination scenarios and other “tough calls”
  • Establishing or contesting good faith in termination situations

You’ll come away from this program secure in the knowledge that you have an enhanced grasp of the best current thinking on the questions that really matter.

Chairs

Barry Kuretzky, Kuretzky Vassos Henderson LLP
Connie Reeve, Blake Cassels & Graydon LLP
Melany V. Franklin, Borden Ladner Gervais LLP

 

OPD Program Lawyer

Paul Truster

ptruster@osgoode.yorku.ca