Canadian employment and human rights laws and the regulatory environment are very different from those in the United States. Efforts to use or impose American forms of contract hiring and termination practices are often unenforceable or illegal in Canada. This session will introduce the Canadian human resources landscape –– with emphasis on statutory regimes making minimum standards mandatory, valid and enforceable employment agreements (termination clauses and restrictive covenants), the common law of reasonable notice, and significant trends in the case law on such issues as the duty to accommodate, constructive dismissal and the duty to mitigate, and bad faith in the manner of termination. The Canadian employment law primer will be provided by Canadian employment counsel and US corporate counsel will provide the human resources perspective from the standpoint of the US employer managing a Canadian workforce.