Successfully defended a discharge grievance for a long-term care home involving a healthcare worker terminated for resident abuse.
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.
Strategic advisor to multi-location retailer in relation to union negotiations concerning significant business restructuring.
Counsel and spokesperson for Ontario Community Colleges in last six rounds of provincial faculty negotiations.
Persuaded an arbitration board to uphold the termination for cause of a hospital employee with nearly 30 years of service for assault in the workplace.
Successfully argued before Divisional Court to quash an arbitration award in the Colleges sector that would have allowed 1200 grievances to proceed.
Successfully argued on behalf of a large steel mill that the union’s unreasonable conduct meant that no compensation should be awarded to an employee.
Successfully defended a financial institution in the first appellate level decision in Canada addressing the Canada Labour Code’s jurisdictional provision in an unjust dismissal and human rights case.
Acted as co-counsel at all levels from arbitration to the Supreme Court of Canada on a teacher termination case concerning conduct demonstrating that the teacher could not discharge the duty to inculcate by precept and example the named virtues of Judeo-Christian morality.
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.
Successfully represented a mining client in a discharge arbitration concerning breach of safety rules and the Occupational Health and Safety Act.