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Human Rights at Work: Accommodation, Accessibility, and Anti-Discrimination Strategies

A practical, ethics-centred course on advising, advocating, and litigating workplace human rights issues in Ontario, with a focus on discrimination, accommodation, and accessibility obligations.
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  • Instructor

Caryma Sa’d

  • Date

June 4, 2026 at 10:00am EST

  • Price

$120

  • Duration

4 hours

  • Format

Attend Live Online and On-Demand Recording

Summary

This course offers a comprehensive and practice-focused examination of human rights obligations in Ontario workplaces, with particular attention to discrimination, accommodation, and accessibility. Participants will explore the Ontario Human Rights Code (OHRC), the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA), and their intersection with employment law, while developing practical strategies for advising clients, managing workplace disputes, and advancing or defending human rights claims. The course emphasizes ethical and professional responsibility, equity-informed advocacy, and effective litigation strategies before administrative tribunals, equipping legal professionals to navigate complex workplace human rights issues with competence and care.

What You'll Learn

  • How to identify and analyze workplace discrimination, harassment, reprisal, and systemic human rights violations.
  • How to apply the duty to accommodate in practice, including issues involving mental health, disability, privacy, and undue hardship.
  • How accessibility obligations under the AODA affect employment practices, service delivery, and tribunal proceedings.
  • How to incorporate EDI and trauma-informed approaches into workplace human rights advocacy.
  • How to advance or defend human rights claims before tribunals, including evidence, remedies, settlement strategy, and ethical considerations.

Includes:

  • Attendance at the live webinar
  • Access to recorded webinar until December 31, 2027
  • Eligible for CPD Credits / Hours (listed under CPD Credits)
  • Certificate of Completion

$120

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CPD Credits

For Lawyers and Paralegals

  • Law Society of Ontario
Substantive Hours: This program is eligible for up to 4 hours including 30 minutes professionalism and 30 minutes EDI.

Course Outline

  • Overview of the Ontario Human Rights Code
  • Relationship between human rights law and employment law
  • Roles and responsibilities of employers, unions, and legal professionals
  • Human rights compliance as a matter of professional competence

  • Overview of protected grounds most commonly engaged in employment disputes
  • Intersectionality and overlapping grounds of discrimination
  • Identifying discrimination
  • Direct, adverse-effect, and systemic discrimination
  • Harassment and poisoned work environments
  • Reprisal

  • Procedural and substantive accommodation obligations
  • Medical information, privacy, and disclosure limits
  • Mental health, addiction, and episodic disabilities
  • Undue hardship

  • Overview of the AODA and accessibility standards
  • Accessibility obligations in employment and service delivery
  • Individual accommodation plans and return-to-work processes
  • Accessibility barriers in legal workplaces and tribunal proceedings
  • Strategic use of AODA non-compliance in human rights litigation

  • Systemic barriers affecting equity-seeking groups in the workplace
  • Implicit bias
  • Power imbalances between employers and employees
  • Competing human rights claims
  • Trauma-informed and culturally competent legal practice

  • Ethical duties of lawyers and paralegals in human rights matters
  • Managing client instructions that raise human rights concerns
  • Avoiding discriminatory or abusive litigation conduct
  • Professional responsibilities in investigations and dispute resolution
  • Accessibility and accommodation within legal practices

  • Strategic framing of workplace human rights claims
  • Evidence of discrimination, harassment, and accommodation failures
  • Remedies, including injury to dignity and public interest orders
  • Settlement considerations and ethical advocacy

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$800

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Instructor

Caryma Sa'd

Lawyer

Founder, Law Office of Caryma Sa’d

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Caryma believes that the legal system ought to provide justice to the people it is meant to serve. A major component of her current work involves advocacy with respect to affordable housing and drug policy reform.

 

An educator at heart, Caryma is frequently called upon by the media as a trusted source for their news stories. Her cases and legal commentary have been featured by reputable media outlets including Associated Press, BNN Bloomberg, CBC, Canadian Lawyer, CityNews Toronto, CP24, CTV, Global Toronto, Globe and Mail, Law Times, Ming Pao, Sing Tao, StarMetro Vancouver, Toronto Star, TVO, Winnipeg Free Press, and VICE News.

 

Caryma articled at a top-tier Bay Street litigation boutique where she had the opportunity to work under the direct tutelage of some of Canada’s leading litigators. She was selected for a secondment to one of the Big Five banks.

 

Caryma graduated cum laude from the University of Ottawa in 2015. She was ranked 1st out of 265 students in English Common Law during her first year, and received several prizes for academic excellence. She was awarded an Ontario Graduate Scholarship in support of her Master’s research on the intersection between law, identity politics, and gender-based violence.

 

Prior to attending law school, Caryma interned with a prominent human rights organization in India. She wrote and illustrated a simplified guide to domestic violence legislation, which has since been circulated to thousands of at-risk women across the country.

 

In her spare time, Caryma likes to watch professional wrestling.

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