Stephanie N. Jeronimo

Stephanie advises and represents both public and private sector employers on a wide range of labour and employment matters. Her practice includes collective agreement negotiations, rights and interest arbitrations, human rights applications, wrongful dismissal litigation, employment standards and pay equity matters.

Elisha C. Jamieson-Davies

Elisha is an experienced litigator with expertise in many types of litigation including employment disputes, long-term disability claims, commercial disputes, restrictive covenant enforcement, class actions and judicial reviews/appeals.

Michael A. Hines

In his practice, Michael has a particular focus on the school board and police sectors. Michael has acted as counsel to more than two-thirds of Ontario’s public school boards and the Ontario Public School Boards’ Association.

Jodi Gallagher Healy

Jodi represents employers in grievance and interest arbitrations, workers’ compensation claims and revenue appeals and wrongful dismissal litigation. She also advises employers on various issues including human rights and accommodation, employment standards compliance and workplace privacy.

Henry Y. Dinsdale

Henry has been advising and representing employers for over 30 years at both the federal and provincial levels and has appeared on behalf of employers in proceedings in every province in the country. His practice ranges from providing sophisticated strategic advice, to collective bargaining and labour and employment law advocacy.

Donna M. D’Andrea

Donna provides practical and strategic advice to employers in all matters related to wrongful dismissal, human rights complaints, employment standards, union organizing campaigns, collective bargaining, grievance arbitration, labour relations, and occupational health and safety.

Dolores M. Barbini

Dolores is a management-side labour, employment and human rights lawyer who advises employers in both the public and private sectors with respect to their union and non-union workforces.

David J. Bannon

David represents employers in a variety of litigation forums. David is certified by the Law Society of Ontario as a Specialist in Labour and Employment Law.

Ontario to Reform Certain Workplace Laws Relating to Construction Labour, Pensions and Workplace Safety and Insurance

On November 18, 2015, the Ontario government introduced Bill 144, the Budget Measures Act, 2015, omnibus legislation that would, if passed and among other things, implement reforms to construction labour relations, workplace safety and insurance indexing and to certain rules governing multi-employer pension asset transfers. The proposed Bill 144 changes include: Amending the construction industry provisions of…

Update on Timing of Proposed Changes to Taxation of Stock Options

In remarks accompanying the new federal government’s first fiscal update, on November 20, 2015, Canada’s Minister of Finance provided further guidance on proposed changes to tax rules that would limit the annual deduction from income that employees can claim upon exercising stock options. Significantly, Minister Morneau indicated that any such changes would only apply to…