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Industry: Non-profit Organizations
George G. Vuicic
George is a labour and employment lawyer in Hicks Morley’s Ottawa office. In his fully bilingual practice, he advises and represents employers on a broad range of labour and employment issues including litigation, regulatory prosecutions, arbitration and labour board proceedings.
Kimberly D. Pepper
Kim advises and represents clients on a wide variety of labour and employment issues. She works with employers in the public and private sectors as well as employers in the not-for-profit sector to assist them in effectively managing all aspects of their human resources.
Natasha D. Monkman
Natasha Monkman is a pensions and benefits lawyer in Hicks Morley’s Toronto office and the chair of the firm’s Pensions, Benefits and Compensation Practice Group. She regularly advises employers on governance, plan administration, investment and compliance matters relating to their employee benefit plans and pension plans as well as compensation matters.
Matthew J. Mihailovich
Matthew is the chair of the firm’s Healthcare Practice Group. He advises a wide variety of employers in both the public and private sectors on issues relating to their workplaces. He appears before labour arbitrators, in court, and before the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario, the Ontario Labour Relations Board, the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board, and the Workplace Safety and Insurance Appeals Tribunal. He also regularly acts as spokesperson in collective bargaining.
Jacqueline J. Luksha
Jacqueline provides practical advice on a wide range of labour and employment issues. She represents clients in human rights complaints, grievance arbitrations, wrongful dismissal and other employment claims, wrongful competition, labour injunctions, restrictive covenants, employment standards complaints and employment contract disputes.
Sophia Duguay
Sophia provides the full range of labour relations and employment law advice to both public and private sector employers and regularly conducts negotiations and represents employers at interest arbitrations.
Non-Profit Organizations
Non-profit organizations range significantly in their missions and goals, but they face many of the same challenges. The competition for donations is fierce, with funding an ongoing concern. And while most have a contingent of paid staff members, many workers are volunteers who may not have a full appreciation of the legal responsibilities that their…