Employment Law

Geared towards helping legal practitioners and human resources professionals grapple with a complicated array of accommodation issues in this rapidly developing area of law.

This text explores the statutory and common law concepts surrounding the employer/employee relationship. It addresses topics including workplace harassment, treatment of mental stress, precarious work, increases to minimum wage, and “equal pay for equal work” provisions. Chapter 5 covers "Human Rights Issues: Duty to Accommodate, Harassment, Accessibility Standards".

In addition to an extensive treatment of wrongful dismissal, this work features an examination of discriminatory practices under the Ontario's Human Rights Code and offences under the Employment Standards Act, 2000.

This book provides practical tools to use and guidelines to follow to create the practices and policies that will proactively manage effective disability programs. It has several sections dealing with issues such as the prevention of disability, managing disability and accessibility, return to work planning, and accommodating individuals with disabilities in the workplace.