Practice Areas

Our experience allows us to provide full perspective for handling any matters related to employment law from initial individual employment terms including contracts to collective agreements and their administration. This includes grappling with all relevant legislation and litigating in various courts and tribunals any matter that cannot be resolved.

Employment Matters

Recruitment
Negotiation and drafting employment contracts
Workplace management training
Attendance management
Human Rights accommodation
Sale and closure of businesses
Corporate governance
Amalgamations and Corporate Restructuring
Employment Contracts
Employee Handbooks
Termination Packages and Releases
Restrictive Convenants
Occupational health and safety audits and upgrading of employer softy protocols
Harassment and violence in the workplace investigations and resolutions
ESA, compliance and complaint resolution
Investigations

Litigation

Collective Agreement negotiations
Collective Agreement administration
Grievance arbitration
Canada Industrial Relations Board proceedings
Work stoppage/strike injunctions
Responding to union organizing campaigns
Responding to union Certification applications and representation votes
Sale and closure of businesses
Amalgamations and Corporate Restructuring
Fire Department law
Hospital law
Municipal Law
Electoral Power Sector law
Hotel law
Investigations

Labour Law

Human Rights Code compliance and response to Applications
Workplace Safety Insurance law
Pay Equity Act compliance and response to Applications
Wrongful dismissal litigation
Coroner’s Inquests
Public Inquiries
Ontario Labour Relations Board proceedings
Occupational Safety Act compliance defense
Employment Standards Act, 2000 compliance and prosecution defense
Mediation: Proactive, non-litigous dispute resolution
Voluntary interest arbitration - dispute resolution without formal legal action or without strike or lockout