This webinar is in partnership with Peninsula and Hicks Morley:
Trade tensions, tariffs, supply chain challenges, and economic uncertainty continue to create new workforce risks and opportunities for Canadian employers. HR professionals are increasingly being asked to help organizations navigate changing business conditions while ensuring compliance with employment law obligations and maintaining employee trust.
Join this timely 90-minute discussion featuring an employment lawyer from Hicks Morley and moderated by Peninsula Canada. Together, they will explore the employment law implications of trade-related disruptions, workforce planning strategies, workforce reductions, employee communications, and emerging risks facing Canadian employers.
Participants will gain practical guidance on how to support their organizations through periods of economic uncertainty while minimizing legal risk and maintaining a positive workplace culture. This session includes an interactive Q&A, providing attendees with the opportunity to have their most pressing questions addressed by leading HR and legal experts.
By the end of this webinar, participants will be able to:
- Identify the potential workforce and employment law impacts of Canada-U.S. trade disruptions on Canadian organizations.
- Understand key legal considerations related to workforce restructuring, temporary layoffs, terminations, and organizational change.
- Apply practical communication strategies to support employees and maintain engagement during periods of uncertainty.
- Recognize common employment law risks that can arise when responding to economic and market disruptions.
- Evaluate cross-border employment considerations affecting Canadian employers with U.S. business operations or employees.
- Develop proactive HR and workforce planning approaches that help balance business needs, employee wellbeing, and legal compliance.
- Determine when to seek legal guidance and what questions HR leaders should be asking to effectively prepare for evolving economic conditions.
Duration: 90 minutes (including live Q&A)
Who should attend this program?
- HR professionals and people leaders
- HR managers, directors, and executives
- Employee and labour relations professionals
- Business owners and senior business leaders
- Employment law practitioners
- Talent management and workforce planning professionals
- Compliance and risk management professionals
- Anyone responsible for managing workforce impacts arising from economic uncertainty, restructuring, layoffs, or cross-border business changes
Registration Difficulties/Questions: Please reach out to the webinars team at PDwebinars@hrpa.ca
Speaker(s)
Olivia Cicchini
Employment Relations Expert & Presenter, Peninsula Canada
Olivia has significant insight into legal, HR and employee management challenges faced by Canadian SMEs. She utilizes her employment law knowledge to create relevant and comprehensive content to help small business owners and HR professionals stay compliant when employment standards and health & safety legislation. Olivia’s incisive commentary regularly appears on radio, blogs and in newspapers. Her views have been features on CBC Radio, CTV News, CP24 and Toronto Sun.
Mornelle Lee
Litigation Associate at Hicks Morley
Mornelle Lee is an associate at Hicks Morley who advises and represents employers on a broad range of labour and employment matters. Her practice includes workforce restructuring, terminations, human rights, labour relations, occupational health and safety, and employment litigation. Mornelle regularly works with employers to navigate organizational change, economic uncertainty, and business disruptions while managing legal risk. She has represented both public and private sector employers before courts, tribunals, and arbitrators across Ontario and works closely with organizations to develop practical workforce solutions in response to evolving business, economic, and regulatory challenges