Navigating COVID19

In light of current conditions, EMC has transitioned peer networking Events to Webinars until there is a solid road to recovery established. 

BC Lower Mainland Manufacturing Members  joined together virtually on April 15^th, 2020 to garner insight on the latest information available relating to COVID19 in Compliance with Labour, Health and Safety and Human Rights Legislation.

EMC has had an overwhelming number of queries regarding workforce issues since the crisis first began and we have held several webinars across Canada in the past few weeks.  We know things are changing daily and it may be hard to keep up with everything required.  There were almost 100 companies registered for this session from across the Province of BC, as well as Alberta, Saskatchewan, Ontario, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia.

We were very pleased to have Eric Ito, Associate, Miller Thomson LLP (Vancouver) as our Guest Speaker for this extremely important session and he provided excellent insight and experience relating to the topic at hand.  Some of the areas of discussion, centred on:

• What are some of the key issues employers should be managing?
• What happens when there is a decrease in business?
• What is the latest legislative change and how might that affect my business?
• What kind of safety precautions should there be in the workplace?
• What do I need to know when it comes to Attendance and Performance Management?
• When it comes to working from home – what kind of steps and measures do employers need to think about?

It shouldn’t be a surprize, that the “Chat Box” was full of questions and dialogue regarding each of these areas of discussion and companies online had a chance to realize that there were similar issues amongst them.

Our Guest Speaker mentioned that there was an excellent Risk Assessment Matrix available that might be helpful to some.  A link to the Matrix, has been included in the chart below.

This Special BC Manufacturers Webinar was recorded, and for anyone interested in the content, the webinar recording link is also in the table below as well – simply paste the hyperlink into the web browser and it should work fine.  If there are any problems in that regard, just let me know. 

Very special thanks to Eric Ito for such an in-depth presentation and for sharing his thoughts and experiences with us and to all of our Members and Guests who were able to participate in this very informative session!

All the best as always!

Bren

Bren de Leeuw
Western Canada Operations
Vice President – Community Partnerships & Stakeholder Relations
Excellence In Manufacturing Consortium - bdeleeuw@emccanada.org - 519-372-6009