COVID-19 Return to the Workplace: Employer Preparedness

Overview

Osler’s Employment & Labour team recently published The Employer’s COVID-19 Return to the Workplace Playbook and is pleased to present a webinar that will further expand on important workplace preparedness guidance as employers across Canada prepare to reopen. Please join us as we discuss important employer considerations, including:

• Deciding whether and when to reopen a workplace
• Specific considerations for ensuring a safe and healthy workplace, such as
  • Physical distancing measures for workplaces
  • Personal protective equipment (PPE) for employees – face masks, gloves and eye protection
• How to handle symptomatic employees
• Accommodating employee requests not to return; and
• Looking ahead – adjustments to policies and contracts as a result of COVID-19