Successfully represented a college client 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.
Industry: Education
Successfully represented a school board in a discharge arbitration concerning theft of time and neglect of duties wherein surreptitious video surveillance evidence was used.
Successfully represented a school board in a discharge arbitration concerning theft of time and neglect of duties wherein surreptitious video surveillance evidence was used.
Obtained an injunction on behalf of a school board overturning athletic association decisions disqualifying an intercollegiate soccer team from competition at provincial championships.
Obtained an injunction on behalf of a school board overturning athletic association decisions disqualifying an intercollegiate soccer team from competition at provincial championships.
Successfully represented a school board in the judicial review of an arbitrator’s decision addressing retirement gratuities.
Successfully represented a school board in the judicial review of an arbitrator’s decision addressing retirement gratuities.
Ongoing labour and employment counsel to universities in the management and administration of academic staff and faculty.
Ongoing labour and employment counsel to universities in the management and administration of academic staff and faculty.
Successfully defended large school board in grievance alleging unjust termination.
Successfully defended large school board in grievance alleging unjust termination.
Successfully defended a public district school board in a claim of racial discrimination by an educational assistant.
Successfully defended a public district school board in a claim of racial discrimination by an educational assistant.
Successfully defended a school board against a grievance brought by a teacher who had been discharged for physical mistreatment of a student.
Successfully defended a school board against a grievance brought by a teacher who had been discharged for physical mistreatment of a student.
Successfully defended a school board regarding the assignment of classroom sections to teachers.
Successfully defended a school board regarding the assignment of classroom sections to teachers.
Successfully defended a university and a municipality in various human rights litigation alleging a failure to accommodate disability and family status in employment.
Successfully defended a university and a municipality in various human rights litigation alleging a failure to accommodate disability and family status in employment.