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Cannabis in the Workplace: A Budding Landscape

Cannabis in the Workplace: A Budding Landscape
Live Webcast, November 15, 2018
Join us for a live webcast with partners from our Employment & Labour and Litigation & Dispute Resolution groups as they discuss employment-related challenges and considerations surrounding the recent legalization of recreational cannabis in Canada.
 
In this hour-long session, our lawyers will also help you make sense of Canada’s new regulations regarding recreational cannabis and highlight how your business can best assess and manage the upcoming challenges in the workplace. 
 
Topics will include: 
  • Tips for drafting workplace policies
  • How to approach occupational health and safety issues
  • Disciplinary considerations
  • Accommodation in the workplace
  • The role of drug and alcohol testing
Speakers:
Mandatory Continuing Education
 
Ontario
This program contains 1 hour of Substantive content.
 
Quebec

Please note that pursuant to the amendments to the Règlement sur la formation continue obligatoire des avocats (Regulation respecting mandatory continuing education for lawyers – available in French only) of the Barreau du Québec, which came into force on April 1, 2019, the status of “recognized provider” and the mandatory “recognition” of activities have been abolished.

Blakes will continue to provide you with a confirmation of participation for your records. As stipulated in the above-mentioned regulation, members must preserve supporting documents attesting their completion of training activities for a period of seven years beginning on April 30 following the end of the reference period during which such activities were completed.

 
British Columbia
This program has been accredited for 1 CPD Credit Hour with The Law Society of British Columbia.
 
When
Thursday, November 15, 2018
 
Live Webcast:
12 – 1 p.m. EST
Log-in details will be sent to you prior to the live webcast date.