Successfully represented a private-sector client at Summary Hearing before the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario.
Work
Provided strategic advice to school board clients during in-camera board meetings, and to municipal clients during closed-session council meetings.
Successfully represented several municipal clients in WSIB hearings involving entitlement to benefits for post-traumatic stress disorder in first responders and other designated workers, chronic mental stress and traumatic mental stress.
Regularly appears before the Ontario Labour Relations Board on a variety of construction and non-construction matters including ESA claims, certification applications and status disputes, s. 50 reprisals, etc.
Successfully argued against a motion to compel an employer to produce certain documents, with costs awarded to the employer.
Drafted an anti-racism policy and provided a related presentation to employer’s staff.
Gave presentation to employer’s leadership team on positive employee relations and successfully endured CUPE organizing campaign while providing day-to-day advice to management on a variety of issues.
Guided a community clinic through collective bargaining, providing proposals for bargaining and advice respecting Bill 124 among other issues.
* past results are not necessarily indicative of future results and outcomes will vary according to the facts in individual cases