This live (or virtual) workshop will give your lawyers and staff the information and skills they need to identify, respond to and report workplace sexual harassment through your organization’s policy.
Topics to be covered:
What is sexual harassment?
- Review of the legal definition of sexual harassment
- Examples of conduct and comments on the spectrum of sexual harassment
LSBC Code of Conduct
- Review of relevant Code sections and new commentary about harassment released 07/2023
Organization policy
- Brief overview of your organization’s policy, what is included, where to find it
Role of Bystanders
- Explain power and importance of bystanders to creating culture or respect
- Review range of bystander intervention strategies
Bystander skills exercise
- Apply bystander intervention strategies to example scenarios
Presenter: Sara Forte 
Sara Forte is a lawyer, mediator, workplace investigator, speaker, entrepreneur, community builder, mother of 3 and backyard henkeeper. Sara founded Forte Workplace Law in 2016, a boutique employment law firm with offices in Surrey and Calgary that include a team of 13 lawyers.
In addition to their representative work, Sara and the Forte Workplace Law team offer an innovative respectful workplace offering, StandUP Teams™. This program includes bystander training, an emerging best practice that Sara wrote about recently in Canadian Lawyer Magazine, Sara is also Chief Happiness Officer of Not Your Average Law Job, a project focused on lawyer happiness and wellbeing.
Sara built out a new office space for the firm in 2021, with a focus on an environment that nourishes both productivity and well-being. Her commitment to crafting a peaceful, welcoming, and invigorating workplace was showcased in a recent news article “Greening the office: It Started with a Tree”.
Those who are joing by webinar the link will be emailed by Tuesday, May 28th.
THIS SESSION WILL NOT BE RECORDED
Registration deadline is Monday, May 27, 11:00 am. There will be no refunds after this date and time.
Questions: Please contact Ruby Jinnah, rjinnah@harrisco.com
Bookings
Bookings are closed for this event.
Please note that BCLMA networking and educational events are exclusive to:
- Current BCLMA members
- A guest of a current BCLMA member (i.e., spouse or non-member of member firm)
- Representatives of business partner(s) (i.e., vendor(s)) sponsoring the event