Liability, Duty of Care, and Senior Leader Responsibilities

08/20/2020 01:00 PM - 04:00 PM ET

Summary

This three hour session will give senior-most decision makers (CEOs, Directors) a strong orientation to legal Duty of Care within the international humanitarian sector. It will highlight the role that these individuals hold on behalf of their organizations for meeting this requirement; it will highlight some of the complexities of ensuring staff duty of care in humanitarian settings (including COVID 19 contexts at HQ and field levels) ; and it will present a duty of care model which participants may adapt to their own organizations to strengthen their duty of care for their staff. This session will be jointly facilitated by Melanie Murphy, CARE Canada’s Safety and Security Lead, and Paul Willetts, a founding partner of Vey Willetts LLP based in Ottawa. Questions will be encouraged.

Description

*Le francais suit.

This three hour session will give senior-most decision makers (CEOs, Directors) a strong orientation to legal Duty of Care within the international humanitarian sector. It will highlight the role that these individuals hold on behalf of their organizations for meeting this requirement; it will highlight some of the complexities of ensuring staff duty of care in humanitarian settings (including COVID 19 contexts at HQ and field levels) ; and it will present a duty of care model which participants may adapt to their own organizations to strengthen their duty of care for their staff.

This session will be jointly facilitated by Melanie Murphy, CARE Canada’s Safety and Security Lead, and Paul Willetts, a founding partner of Vey Willetts LLP based in Ottawa. Questions will be encouraged.

*please note that simultaneous interpretation will be available.


Obligations, devoir de diligence et responsabilités de la haute direction 

Cet atelier de trois heures donnera à la haute direction (PDG, directeurs) une orientation forte sur le devoir légal de diligence dans le secteur humanitaire international. Il mettra en évidence le rôle que ces personnes jouent au nom de leur organisation pour satisfaire à cette exigence ; il soulignera certaines des complexités liées au devoir de diligence du personnel dans les contextes humanitaires (y compris les contextes covid-19 au siège et sur le terrain) ; et elle présentera un modèle de devoir de diligence que les participants pourront adapter à leur propre organisation pour renforcer leur devoir de diligence envers leur personnel.

Cette session sera animée conjointement par Melanie Murphy, responsable de la sûreté et de la sécurité de CARE Canada, et Paul Willetts, un partenaire fondateur de Vey Willetts LLP basé à Ottawa. Les questions seront encouragées.

*Cette formation est diffusée en anglais sur Zoom avec traduction simultanée. 

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