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By Christina Catenacci, BA, LLB, LLM, PhD | 2 Minutes Read May 17, 2010

Managing absenteeism – Learn the latest!

conf-vid-2The third session at First Reference’s Ontario Employment Law Conference on June 2, 2010, covers managing absenteeism. When dealing with absenteeism, employers must respect the protected leaves under the Employment Standards Act, as well as the accommodation rules found under the Human Rights Code and Workplace Safety and Insurance Act. Understandably, it may be difficult to balance employees’ rights under these pieces of legislation with employers’ need to have their employees productively working.

That said, it is important to know that recent case law has made it clear that employers are entitled to manage absenteeism in the workplace and monitor employees who are chronically absent from work due to disability. Moreover, employers can create a disability program involving regular contact with an employee’s physician in order to support treatment as a legitimate form of accommodation.

Furthermore, an employer has the right to terminate a disabled employee when, despite accommodation measures, that employee remains unable to resume work for the foreseeable future. That is, an employer is not obliged to indefinitely employ someone who is not capable of regular job performance. If the characteristics of an illness are such that it will excessively hamper the proper operation of the business, or if an employee with such an illness remains unable to work for the reasonably foreseeable future, even though the employer has tried to accommodate the employee, the employer will have satisfied the test of accommodation to the point of undue hardship.

At the conference, you will learn the above principles and how to apply them to your leaves and accommodation policies, including your disability management program, by reviewing:

  • What courts, tribunals and arbitrators are saying about Attendance Management Programs
  • How to effectively and lawfully manage disability and non-disability related absenteeism
  • What to do with insufficient medical documentation
  • When and how to terminate for excessive absenteeism

There is much more—come and learn how to manage absenteeism. Register for the 2010 Employment Law Conference co-sponsored by Stringer Brisbin Humphrey, and Learn the latest! (Registrations now closed)

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Christina Catenacci, BA, LLB, LLM, PhD, is a member of the Law Society of Ontario. Christina worked as an editor with First Reference between 2005 and 2015 working on publications including The Human Resources Advisor (Ontario, Western and Atlantic editions), HRinfodesk, and First Reference Talks blog discussing topics in Canadian Labour and Employment Law. She continues to contribute to First Reference Talks as a regular guest blogger, where she writes on privacy and surveillance topics. Christina has also appeared in the Montreal AI Ethics Institute's AI Brief, International Association of Privacy Professionals’ Privacy Advisor, Tech Policy Press, and Slaw - Canada's online legal magazine.
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Article by Christina Catenacci, BA, LLB, LLM, PhD / Administration, Health and Safety, Human Rights / Attendance management programs, Canada, Conference, disability management, duty to accommodate, Employment law conference, employment standards act, Human Resources, human rights code, Leaves of absence, managing absenteeism, ontario, Workplace Safety and Insurance Act

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About Christina Catenacci, BA, LLB, LLM, PhD

Christina Catenacci, BA, LLB, LLM, PhD, is a member of the Law Society of Ontario. Christina worked as an editor with First Reference between 2005 and 2015 working on publications including The Human Resources Advisor (Ontario, Western and Atlantic editions), HRinfodesk, and First Reference Talks blog discussing topics in Canadian Labour and Employment Law. She continues to contribute to First Reference Talks as a regular guest blogger, where she writes on privacy and surveillance topics. Christina has also appeared in the Montreal AI Ethics Institute's AI Brief, International Association of Privacy Professionals’ Privacy Advisor, Tech Policy Press, and Slaw - Canada's online legal magazine.

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