The Osgoode Certificate in Advanced Human Resources Law for Senior HR Executives (2025)
November 25, 2025 @ 8:30 am - 4:30 pm EST
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Designed for Human Resources leaders wishing to take their skills and knowledge to the next level.
Using an in-depth case study method under the guidance of leading legal and HR experts, you will delve deeply into the most challenging issues in workplace law – and be better positioned to implement or reinforce best HR strategies and practices reflecting the latest law.
What You’ll Learn
- Understanding in-depth the rationale for provisions relating to termination, bonuses, commissions, stock options, continuance of benefits, non-solicitation and non-competition clauses (failure to understand which can lead to costly litigation)
- Strategic approaches to the framing and drafting of workplace policies and procedures and employment contracts
- Effectively planning and managing performance and performance improvement plans (PIPS)
- What the law requires, and what represents proactive best practices, in strategies for accommodation
- Tackling the issues of social media and its impact on the employment relationship
- Overcoming the challenges posed by harassment and mental health issues in the workplace
- Termination of employment: managing and limiting the legal risks
- Understanding the formal mediation and litigation processes which come into play if informal resolution does not succeed
- Working from home and the return-to-work conundrum – problems, pitfalls and best strategies to overcome them
Day One: Pre-Employment: Job Postings/Interviewing/Drafting Employment Agreements & Policies
With Stuart Rudner and Brittany Taylor.
Session topics for this day include:
- Applications. Interviews and Hiring
- Discrimination
- Risks in the Hiring Process (Human Rights, Accommodation, Inducement, Misrepresentation)
- Misclassification of Workers
- Employment Agreements
- Termination Clauses
Day Two: During the Employment Relationship – Policies and Addressing Performance Issues
With Stuart Rudner and Geoffrey Lowe.
Session topics for this day include:
- Employment Policies
- Determining the policies your organization needs
- How to effectively communicate the organization’s values and expectations – what considerations are there when deciding how to communicate and implement policies?
- The essential policies and procedures – harassment, privacy, use of technology/social media, benefits, discipline, and absenteeism
- Common hazards and omissions relating to policies
- Tips to ensure that policies will be enforceable
- Conducting effective policy and handbook reviews and updating policies
- A Comprehensive Guide to the Legal Landscape
- Effectively assessing and managing performance – tips and tools
- Establishing specific, measurable objectives
- Performance Improvement Plans – key issues in managing challenging employees
- Communicating expectations and consequences
- Human rights issues and accommodation
- How are the standards and evidentiary requirements for showing “undue hardship” evolving?
- Creating a record you can rely upon for discipline and potential dismissal
