Duty to Accommodate

1 Day Workshop

This one-day workshop is designed to empower participants to better understand their responsibilities when it comes to creating fair and inclusive workplaces. It gives participants the tools and the confidence to identify and remove barriers in the workplace, based on the Canadian Human Rights Act and its prohibited grounds. This workshop breaks down the legal framework and principles behind accommodation, clears up common myths and misunderstandings, and introduces practical language and ideas that can make the process easier to navigate. At its core, this workshop is about working together to identify meaningful approaches that support everyone’s right to fully participate at work.

Objectives

• Familiarize participants with the legislation, obligations, and founding principles of the duty to accommodate
• Share terminology and concepts central to workplace accommodation theory and practice
• Identify and challenge some of the misinformation and disinformation surrounding the duty to accommodate
• Increase participants’ confidence when collaborating on reasonable and meaningful accommodation measures in the workplace

Target Audience

The audience for this workshop is union members of the Core Public Administration and their supervisors and managers.