Workplace Investigations Training and Certificate Program (FULL)
2023-07-17 09:30 - 2023-07-27 16:30 UTC
The Workplace Investigations Training & Certificate Program is an in-depth program that effectively equips participants with the ability to recognize, investigate and report the findings of complex workplace investigations.

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Workplace Investigations Training and Certificate Program
2023-09-11 09:30 - 2023-09-21 16:30, 2023-10-16 09:30 - 2023-10-26 16:30, 2024-01-15 09:30 - 2024-01-25 16:30, 2024-09-09 09:30 - 2024-09-19 16:30, 2024-10-17 08:00 - 2024-10-28 17:00, 2024-11-18 09:30 - 2024-11-28 16:30 UTC | Online

The Inclusive Workplace Series - Module 1: Fostering a Psychologically Safe Workplace for Queer and Trans Employees
2023-10-04 12:00 - 13:15 UTC | Online
Protests about Pride flags, drag shows, and gender identity, have led to an increase in aggression towards members of the LGBTQ2SIA+ community. This has spilled over into many workplaces, creating a psychologically unsafe work environment for queer and trans employees and allies.
This module will address the importance of creating and fostering psychologically safe workplaces. You will learn the history and transformation of language around gender identity and sexual orientation and will receive practical tips on creating a shared understanding, and promoting inclusion for LGBTQ2SIA+ employees.

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Igniting Change: Overcoming Diversity Challenges in the Fire Service
2023-11-01 13:30 - 14:30 UTC | Online
OMHRA – HR Navigator Live
How Equity, Diversity and Inclusion will shape the Future of Work
November 1, 2023 (1:30 – 2:30 p.m.)
Facilitated by Lauren Bernardi and Hazem Mossa

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Workplace Investigations Training and Certificate Program (FULL)
2023-11-06 09:30 - 2023-11-16 16:30, 2024-05-06 09:30 - 2024-05-16 16:30, 2024-06-10 09:30 - 2024-06-20 16:30 UTC | Online

The Osgoode Certificate in Workplace Mental Health Law
2023-11-07 09:00 - 2023-11-28 16:30 UTC | Online
Designed and taught by legal and mental healthcare experts, this intensive, practical Certificate program is ideal for those who seek to better understand the applicable laws bearing on mental health issues in the workplace, and to make use of the processes and best practices for reducing legal liability, while creating and maintaining a psychologically safe workplace.

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The Inclusive Workplace Series - Module 2: Promoting Employee Mental Health in a World on Fire
2023-11-15 12:00 - 13:15 UTC | Online
Pandemic lockdowns, increased polarity, climate anxiety, inflation and other societal issues are impacting many people’s mental health and wellbeing.
Protecting employee mental health and wellbeing in the face of these challenges requires proactive steps to foster a psychologically safe work environment. It also means effectively accommodating mental health needs as they arise.
This module will dissect the mental health challenges arising from our unique societal moment, and offer you forward thinking tools and strategies to address those challenges and promote an inclusive and healthy workplace

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Leading the Way: Effective and Ethical Change Leadership and Psychological Health and Safety
2023-11-29 10:00 - 11:00 UTC | Online
OMHRA – HR Navigator Live
Leading the Way: Effective and Ethical Change Leadership and Psychological Health and Safety
November 29, 2023 (10:00 – 11:00 a.m.)
Facilitated by Natasha Savoline and Brian Gottheil

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The Inclusive Workplace Series - Module 3: How and When to Discuss Divisive Issues in the Workplace
2023-12-06 12:00 - 13:15 (America/Toronto) | Online
It’s gotten harder to have conversations with each other with an increasing list of topics becoming “taboo”. And when discussions do occur, they often breakdown into hostility and personal attacks.
This module will provide you with the tools to help employees have and mediate difficult and potentially polarizing conversations and will help cultivate positive, inclusive and respectful interactions.

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HR Power Lunch: I'm afraid I can't recommend that severance package Dave: AI and Employment Law for HR Professionals
2023-12-19 12:00 - 13:30 UTC | Online
Robert Richler will be presenting a webinar to the HRPA Windsor and District Chapter members on emerging technologies (like AI) and the power and impact they can have on HR practices.

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Managing Challenging Situations in the Fire Service: A Certificate Program
2024-01-09 09:00 - 2024-01-11 16:00 UTC | In person (GTA)
Leading in the fire service presents unique challenges. Leaders must balance the trust and camaraderie essential to a strong culture with the challenges of leading effectively. This course will equip leaders in the fire service with the knowledge and skills to conquer workplace challenges and drive positive change.
This course is geared to current and aspiring leaders in the fire service including Chiefs, Deputy Chiefs, Platoon Chiefs and District Chiefs.
Who should attend: current and aspiring fire service leaders in career and volunteer departments.

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The Inclusive Workplace Series - Module 4: Addressing Antisemitism and Islamophobia in the Workplace
2024-01-17 12:00 - 13:15 UTC | Online
This module aims to challenge the Antisemitism and Islamophobia that is becoming more prevalent in today’s culture and which is trickling down into both the workplace and our lives.
Highlighting our collective responsibility to challenge discriminatory behaviours and to practice allyship that fosters an inclusive culture, we’ll review some of the sources and manifestations of Antisemitism and Islamophobia, along with practical strategies employers can take to prevent and respond to them.

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The Osgoode Advanced Certificate in Workplace Investigations
2024-01-30 08:00 - 2024-02-21 17:00 UTC | Online
Taught by some of the country’s leading experts, you will learn how to carry out effective interviews in the most challenging circumstances and write clear and convincing reports.

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The Inclusive Workplace Series - Module 5: Understanding Intersectionality and Balancing Competing Rights
2024-02-07 12:00 - 13:15 UTC | Online
There’s no “one size fits all” approach to inclusion. Creating a truly inclusive workplace requires treating employees as individuals and respecting their unique experiences, which arise from complex combinations of relationships and identities.
This module will dissect the concepts of intersectionality and marginalization and how systems of power and privilege impact the lived experiences of many people in the workplace.
In this module, you’ll increase your understanding of overlapping identities and relationships to workplace systems and policies, as a foundational step to challenging discrimination.

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Recent Employment Law Developments You Need to Know About
2024-02-08 08:00 - 11:00 UTC | Waterfront Banquet & Conference Centre, 555 Bay Street North, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
The legal landscape is adjusting faster than you can say “wrongful dismissal!” Employers are working to adapt to changes in the law, while looking for best practices where the law is silent. Join us as Lauren Bernardi and Suhaib Ibrahim review another year of employment law developments.

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The Inclusive Workplace Series - Module 6: Truth and Reconciliation Practices in the Workplace
2024-03-20 12:00 - 13:15 UTC | Online
An inclusive workplace in the lands that now make up Canada must recognize that its success, and very existence, were made possible by the dispossession of those who inhabited these lands before us. Promoting reconciliation with Indigenous peoples can be a daily practice that helps foster inclusion.
This module will support you to incorporate reconciliation practices into your workplace through honest and effective land acknowledgements and other tools.
We will cover the importance of recognizing and acknowledging the ongoing process of colonization to lay the foundation for an inclusive future built on trust and respect.

The session will be facilitated by Lauren Bernardi and Kris Noakes who works as a community advocate. Hannah Tarr will also join in on the conversations around Land Acknowledgements. Tanille Turner will be moderating the session.

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Learn more about our guest speaker, Kris Noakes:
Kris is a citizen of the Anishinabek Nation and a member of Nipissing First Nation and a community advocate at the Municipal, Provincial, Federal levels. Her diverse experience includes leading an Indigenous NGO, building Indigenous services in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). For almost 3 decades, she has also served as a Law Enforcement Officer. Kris has supported community initiatives through Public Appointments on the City of Mississauga and City of Brampton’s Diversity and Inclusion Advisory Committees and the Museums of Mississauga Advisory Committee. Kris has served as a member of the Region of Peel’s Homelessness Partnering Strategy Community Advisory Board (CAB), the First Nation, Métis and Inuit Advisory Circle for the Peel District School Board (PDSB), the Toronto Area Education Leads for the Indigenous Education Office of Ministry of Education and as a Director for Art Gallery of Mississauga. She has been a guest speaker at various universities and colleges, national sports events, corporations, governments and at the United Nations General Assembly.
Kris currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors for the Hamilton Community Legal Clinic, on the Board of Directors at Theatre Aquarius, the Hamilton Chamber of Commerce Dundas Board Chair and has recently finished her second term appointment as a member of the Federal Judicial Advisory Committee for the GTA. As a person living with the terminal disease ALS, she is a member of ALS Canada’s Board of Directors and Chair of the Hamilton based charity event, the Revolution Ride.

Workplace Investigations Training and Certificate Program (FULL)
2024-04-08 09:30 - 2024-04-18 16:30 UTC | Online
The Workplace Investigations Training & Certificate Program is an in-depth program that effectively equips participants with the ability to recognize, investigate and report the findings of complex workplace investigations.
Note: This program offering is currently full. For more information and other date options, please click the button below.

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Intersectionality in Action: how an intersectional lens can help build an inclusive municipal workplace
2024-04-17 15:30 - 16:30 UTC | Niagara, ON
There’s no “one size fits all” approach to inclusion. Creating an inclusive workplace requires treating employees as individuals and respecting their unique experiences, which arise from complex combinations of relationships and identities.
This session will explore the concepts of intersectionality and marginalization and how systems embedded in municipal workplaces can differently impact employees’ experiences of inclusion.
These aren’t esoteric concepts. They’re deeply practical. We will guide participants to examine workplace systems, structures, practices, policies and benefits through an intersectional lens, as a springboard for change that creates a truly inclusive workplace.
Lavinia Latham and Hazem Mossa will be speaking at the OMHRA Spring Workshop on this topic on April 17, 2024.

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Workplace Investigations Training and Certificate Program (FULL)
2024-07-08 09:30 - 2024-07-18 16:30 UTC | Online
The Workplace Investigations Training & Certificate Program is an in-depth program that effectively equips participants with the ability to recognize, investigate and report the findings of complex workplace investigations.
PROGRAM IS FULL

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The Inclusive Workplace Series - Module 8: Religious Literacy and the Welcoming Workplace
2024-10-09 12:00 - 13:15 UTC | Online
Religion can be an uncomfortable or sometimes even a taboo topic. In this talk, we explore the cost this silence can impose on staff and how certain cultural lenses can distort our ability to see one another clearly. We will make the case for religious literacy’s value both personally and professionally while discussing practical steps to make our workplaces more inclusive for all.
Facilitated by Brian Carwana
Brian is the Executive Director of Encounter World Religions, a charity that promotes religious literacy. He has spent 25 years exploring and learning about ethno-religious communities and has a PhD from the University of Toronto. He consults on religious literacy and inclusion to governments, police, educators and for-profit firms in multiple sectors. He blogs about religion at a personal site (ReligionsGeek.com) and cherishes Encounter’s annual Discovery Week where 50 participants explore 11 religions in one week with classes and almost 20 site visits.

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Advanced Credibility Assessments: Avoiding Common Pitfalls in Workplace Investigations
2024-11-07 09:00 - 14:30 UTC | Online
Assessing parties’ and witnesses’ credibility is one of the most challenging parts of workplace investigations. But it’s an essential skill for your investigations to be robust and legally defensible. In this advanced workshop, our expert investigators will equip you with the skills to assess credibility and reliability effectively. Among other topics, we will discuss (and apply, using complex case studies) factors to use when assessing credibility, strategies to overcome common pitfalls, and how to assess credibility through a trauma-informed lens.

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Advanced Report Writing for Workplace Investigations
2024-12-04 09:00 - 14:30 UTC | Online
Completing a workplace investigation is only the first step. Communicating your findings in a report is also essential. Many internal decision-makers and stakeholders rely on your reports, while parties, unions, judges and arbitrators may scrutinize them. The report needs to be neutral, concise and legally defensible, but also engaging, practical, and clearly communicating your intended messaging. This advanced workshop will provide you with the essential tools and insights to enable you to organize and write effective investigation reports.

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Investigating Workplace Harassment in Policing: A Certificate Program
2025-02-11 09:00 - 2025-02-13 16:00 UTC | In person (GTA)
Conducting workplace harassment investigations can be challenging. Investigators need to understand the law, the psychology of harassment and the differences between a harassment investigation and a criminal investigation.
This course is specifically geared to harassment investigations in the police service.
Who should attend: internal investigators and HR professionals in the police sector

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