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1 - 7 of 7 results for Links related to "Legal Issues"
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| 1. ARCH Disability Management |
| ARCH: A Legal Resource Centre for Persons with Disabilities is a specialty legal aid clinic dedicated to defending and advancing the equality-rights of persons with disabilities.
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ARCH Disability Law Centre
(Canada)
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| 2. Breaking down the barriers |
| This December 2000 article directed at human resource professionals explores the benefits of mental health at work, and the risk of lawsuits for organizations with unhealthy working environments. |
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Benefits Canada
(Canada)
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| 3. Disclosing your disability to an employer |
| Employees will find tips detailing how to disclose a disability. Includes how to prepare for disclosure (deciding who to tell, weighing benefits and risks of disclosure), and how to disclose (for example, finding resources to point the employer to further information). |
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Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation
(United States)
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| 4. Mental health in the workplace |
| The International Labour Organization's situation analyses of mental health in the workplace in Finland, Germany, Poland, the UK, and the USA. The reports' topics include prevention and the role of government and social partners in promoting mental health. (Link requires a PDF reader.) Disponible en français. |
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ILO
(Switzerland)
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| 5. Policy and guidelines on disability and the duty to accommodate |
| The Ontario Human Rights Commission’s policy position and guidelines on employers’ duty to accommodate people with disabilities includes a subsection on discrimination against people with mental disabilities. |
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Ontario Human Rights Commission
(Canada)
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| 6. Rethinking productivity from a workplace perspective |
| High performance work systems, flextime, pay for performance, employee involvement, work-sharing, multi-skill training, diversity management, and workplace well-being programs mostly have positive effects on employees and, in turn, on the organization, according to this policy paper. The author also discusses why organizations don’t implement best practices. (Link requires a PDF reader.) Disponible en français. |
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Canadian Policy Research Networks
(Canada)
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| 7. What is psychiatric disability and mental illness? |
| This resource defines mental illness and some common diagnoses, suggests common forms of disclosing a mental illness, and discusses how psychiatric disability affects an employee's functioning. It also notes some (American) legal standards of an employee’s disclosure of illness. |
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Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation
(United States)
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