Central West (Barrie): HYBRID Exploring Drug Landscape Trends and Be Prepared: Expert Legal Guidance


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Date and Time

Starts:04/30/2025 12:00 PM

Ends:04/30/2025 4:00 PM

Registration Closes:04/18/2025 8:00 AM

Event Type: Professional Development

3 CPD Hour(s)

Location:
Tangle Creek Golf and Country Club 4730 Sideroad #25 Thornton, ON

Price:

HRPA Members: FREE (included in membership dues)

Non-Members:
IN-PERSON: $75 + tax

Non-Members:
VIRTUAL: $35 + tax

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Event Sponsor

Exploring Drug Landscape Trends: Current Insights, Future Prospects, and Benefits - Doug Calow, Calow Benefits

During this part of the presentation, Doug will help you understanding of cost drivers within benefits programs for existing and new medications in the pipeline. This will help you as an HR professional to be informed of potential risks to funding benefits sustainability and flexibility.

He will also share what's new within the Benefits industry regarding plan design options trends given vast age groups with different expectations. Also, understanding the new Capital Accumulation Guide Lines for pension and retirement programs.

  1. Help to understand what drug trends are driving premiums and what to expect in the future. Skills to incorporate plan design funding for total compensation and program sustainability as a corporate strategic partner
  2. How can plan design meet the needs of generational employees. Addition of Flex Benefits within the traditional benefits space and new coverages available to meet the needs of employees
  3. What are the expectations for Plan Sponsors with the new Capital Accumulation Guide Lines. Help HR leaders protect their organization from any liabilities around retirement funding

Be Prepared: Expert Legal Guidance - David Turner, Turner HR Law

Be prepared: great words to live by. Is your business well-positioned to meet some of the most common day-to-day employment issues? Being prepared, with clear and legally-enforceable policies, contracts and procedures, will enable you to be proactive and responsive to your business’s needs. 

This summary will include a re-cap and guidance, from the trenches, on the essential components of:

  • Hiring & firing tips;
  • Written employment contracts;
  • Workplace policies;
  • Human Rights Code compliance;
  • Hybrid Work; and,
  • Performance Management.

Having off-the-shelf templates is not enough to protect your business. The entire workforce needs to be aware of the policies, be able to access them, and then, most importantly, understand and rely upon them when real-life situations arise.

  1. It starts with being prepared; it ends with execution, and HR is the driving force. 
  2. being current with key employment law issues in the workplace
  3. effective management of your workforce
  4. getting ahead of issues before they become problems

Agenda

Noon - 12:30pm    Lunch
12:30 - 2pm           Doug Calow - Exploring Drug Landscape Trends: Current Insights, Future Prospects, and Benefits
2:00 - 2:15pm        Break
2:15 - 3:45pm        David Turner - Be Prepared: Expert Legal Guidance
3:45 - 4:00pm       Wrap-up

Registration Difficulties or Questions: Please reach out to Tracey Gallacher, Specialist, Member Engagement

Speaker bio(s)
Douglas Calow, Owner

With over three decades of employee benefits experience, Doug Calow has built a solid group benefits and pension brokerage firm, servicing business owners throughout Simcoe County and the GTA. Doug continues to work on being client-focused and providing timely, relevant information to clients regarding the benefits industry.

David Turner, Partner

David acts as counsel to management with respect to all aspects of Canadian employment and labour law. This includes advising, representing and litigating on behalf of clients with respect to: employment law; labour relations; wrongful dismissal; employment standards; human rights; workplace policies and procedures; employment contracts; performance management; and workplace safety and insurance matters.
David strives to assist employers to develop and articulate clear policies that protect the employer’s interests. He also works with his firm’s clients to develop practical and workable responses to employment issues such as performance management, employee discipline and workplace harassment.
David has lectured at the Law Society of Upper Canada and Ryerson University on Employment and Labour Law.
Free time in the summer is spent with his family at his cottage. In the winter David coaches his son’s hockey team.
He graduated from Queens Law School in 1984 and was called to the bar of the Law Society of Upper Canada in 1986. He is also a member of the Canadian Bar Association and the Ontario Bar Association.