How to Manage Accessibility Obligations: Integrating AODA, Human Rights Code and Related Legislative Requirements
Constitutional, Civil Liberties, & Human Rights and Labour & Employment Law | Original Program Date: February 4, 2015
Since coming into force in 2005, the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (“AODA”) has imposed an assortment of obligations on employers and service providers, and new requirements continue to come into effect. AODA’s goal of making Ontario accessible for persons with disabilities is shared by the Ontario Human Rights Code’s (“the Code”) prohibition on discrimination based on disability. How do the obligations under AODA and the Code, along with various other pieces of legislation, such as the Building Code and the Employment Standards Act, work together in practice? How can employers and service providers integrate their various obligations to create a barrier-free environment? What are the consequences of failing to do so?
Join us for this critical program to gain invaluable tools and strategies for helping your clients effectively achieve and maintain compliance with the myriad of interrelated legislative obligations. Brush up on the new and continuing obligations, and explore practical techniques for implementing and enforcing essential policies, procedures and practices.
PROGRAM CHAIRS
Antonella Ceddia, Legal Services Division, City of Toronto
Andrea Wobick, Ursel Phillips Fellows Hopkinson LLP
AGENDA
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