Counsel and spokesperson for Ontario Community Colleges in last six rounds of provincial faculty negotiations.
Work
We offer legal services that include advice, courtroom and tribunal advocacy, negotiation, alternative dispute resolution, policy development and strategic planning. Below are examples of work we have performed for our clients.
Successfully argued before Divisional Court to quash an arbitration award in the Colleges sector that would have allowed 1200 grievances to proceed.
Successfully represented a college in an arbitration wherein the supervision of part-time employees was found to be a sufficient basis for exclusion from the full-time support staff bargaining unit on the basis of managerial function based on the 2008 amendments to the Colleges Collective Bargaining Act.
Successful in arguing that the benefits available under province-wide collective agreement can be pro-rated for new hires in first year of employment.
Successful in arguing the union had agreed to an extension of the grievor’s probationary period and therefore the employer was entitled to release the grievor without proving just cause.