ACERA INSURANCE WEBINAR
Navigating Employment Practices Liability
Legal, HR & Insurance Insights for Employers
Acera Insurance invites you to a webinar designed to help employers strengthen workplace policies and practices, avoiding the legal pitfalls in employee protections, accommodations and transitions. This session features a panel discussion with experts in employment law, human resources, insurance and risk management.
What You’ll Learn
In this practical and insightful session, our panel of experts walk you through the key issues driving employment practices liability and provide you with the tools and strategies to manage them effectively. Topics we’ll cover include:
- The Human Rights Act, employment contracts, and managing disability and illness.
- The meaning of “undue hardship” and effectively fulfilling your duty to accommodate.
- Managing medical documentation and coordinating with healthcare providers.
- Creating compassionate, compliant and effective accommodation plans.
- The difference between severance vs. frustration of contract and facilitating difficult transitions.
- Protecting leadership from personal liability with D&O insurance.
Who Should Attend
Business owners, HR professionals and organizational leaders looking to minimize risks, improve compliance and protect their teams from costly employment disputes.
Meet the Expert Panel
Maxwell J. Burnette
Partner and Employment & Labour Law Practice Group Leader,
Gowling WLG
max.brunette@gowlingwlg.com l 
Recognized by Chambers Canada, Lexpert, Legal 500 Canada, and Acritas, Max represents employers across all sectors in workplace disputes, labour relations, employment standards and workplace investigations.
Kate Ashton
Executive Partner, Consulting
Salopek and Associates
kate@salopekconsulting.com l
With over 20 years of senior-level human resources experience, Kate leads a national team of HR professionals and advises businesses on employee relations, workplace investigations, change management and talent strategy.
Hillaine McCaffrey
Senior Broker
Acera Insurance
hillaine.mccaffrey@acera.ca l
Licensed across nine provinces and territories, Hillaine specializes in directors and officers liability, errors and omissions liability and cyber insurance.
Aliya Daya
Senior Client Executive
Acera Insurance
aliya.daya@acera.ca l
With over 25 years of insurance experience, Aliya is a cyber liability specialist and leads the national mixed specialties practice at Acera Insurance.