Managing in a Unionized Workplace Foundations Seminar

Take the guesswork out of managing employees in an increasingly complex unionized workplace. This Foundations Seminar will provide supervisors and managers with day-to-day practical tools to successfully manage employees and administer collective agreements in the workplace.

In this Foundations Seminar, participants will gain a thorough understanding of the legal and practical landscape to manage unionized employees, including:

• Understanding the roles, rights and obligations of the employee, union and manager/supervisor, including limits on management rights and enforcing performance expectations and workplace rules
• Understanding the collective agreement – the intent of collective agreement language and what happens when a dispute arises over interpretation
• Managing employee performance – setting expectations, evaluating performance, and applying progressive discipline to manage culpable misconduct
• Investigating misconduct and conducting a proper investigation

Learning format and materials

This seminar will be completed over one 5-hour session and will incorporate case studies and hypothetical scenarios to provide participants with the opportunity to apply their learnings.