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Managing Stress Leave: Accommodation, Legal Duties & Payroll Compliance

An overview of the legal, accommodation, and payroll obligations involved in managing employee stress leave while minimizing organizational risk.

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  • Instructor

Antonio Urdaneta

  • Date

October 6, 2026 at 12:00pm EST

  • Price

$100

  • Duration

2 hours

  • Format

Attend Live Online and On-Demand Recording

Summary

Stress leave is one of the most challenging situations HR professionals manage—requiring a careful balance of legal compliance, employee support, privacy protection, and payroll accuracy. Managing Stress Leave: Accommodation, Legal Duties & Payroll Compliance provides HR teams, managers, and compliance professionals with a clear, practical roadmap for handling mental-health–related leaves in a way that is legally sound, compassionate, and operationally efficient.

Participants will learn how to navigate key legislation—including the Human Rights Code, the Employment Standards Act (ESA), and privacy rules—while applying individualized accommodation strategies that respect functional limitations and promote psychological safety. The course also covers essential payroll compliance topics such as statutory sick leave, employer-provided benefits, EI sickness benefits, return-to-work coordination, and common administrative errors.

Through practical frameworks and real-world scenarios, this training equips HR professionals to manage risk, avoid legal exposure, support employees appropriately, and maintain workforce stability during and after stress-related absences.

What You'll Learn

  • Understand legal obligations during stress leave under the Human Rights Code, ESA sick leave provisions, and privacy laws.
  • Use individualized accommodation strategies focused on functional limitations, appropriate communication, and psychological safety.
  • Coordinate payroll and benefits correctly including statutory sick leave, employer-paid benefits, and EI sickness benefits.
  • Avoid common compliance risks such as overpayment, confidentiality breaches, and improper deductions.
  • Mitigate legal and operational risks related to discrimination claims, constructive dismissal, morale issues, and workload distribution.

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

$100

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CPD Credits

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Course Outline

  • Why stress leave is a growing workplace issue.
  • Impact on compliance, culture, and costs.

  • Human Rights Code & Duty to Accommodate: Mental health as a protected ground.
  • Employment Standards Act (ESA): Sick leave, job protection.
  • Privacy considerations during leave and RTW.

  • Individualized approach: functional limitations vs. diagnosis.
  • Communication during leave: maintaining connection without pressure.
  • RTW planning: gradual reintegration and psychological safety.

  • Handling statutory sick leave vs. employer-provided benefits.
  • EI sickness benefits and coordination with payroll.
  • Common mistakes: overpayment, deductions, confidentiality breaches.

  • Legal risks: discrimination claims, constructive dismissal.
  • Operational risks: morale, workload redistribution.

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Instructor

Antonio Urdaneta

B.C.L., N.C.A, GP. LL.M
Barrister & Solicitor, Founder Workplace Legal

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Antonio Is the thought leader behind Workplace Legal. He focuses on improving work climate and empowering business leaders, entrepreneurs, managers, supervisors and human resources professionals to reduce the inherent threats of workplace relations by providing innovative training, advisory, investigations, and litigation services. Antonio uses coaching tools and skills to inform, advice and represent workplaces in their virtual and physical challenges, including business transformation and managing toxic leadership.

​Antonio obtained a Bachelor’s of Civil Law from Zulia’s University in 2003 and completed the Canadian National Committee on Accreditation in 2015. His legal work includes employment standards, human rights, health and safety, pay equity, harassment, discrimination, violence, hazards, privacy, BYOD, agreements, contracts and policies, employment related ADRs (mediation, arbitration), and litigation (wrongful/constructive dismissals). He has successfully represented and assisted clients at the Superior Court of Justice and various administrative tribunals in Ontario.

​Antonio also conducts workplace investigations regarding allegations of violence, harassment, discrimination, accidents/incidents, theft and failure to comply with company policies, by-laws and collective agreements.

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