Successfully defended a school board regarding the assignment of classroom sections to teachers.
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.
Successfully assisted a manufacturing sector client in winning a representation vote through the use of union avoidance training.
Chief spokesperson for the Ontario government on two federal – provincial staff transfer agreement negotiations.
Successfully defended a mining company in having the discharge of a long-service employee upheld for dishonesty, misconduct and sleeping on the job in a safety-sensitive workplace.
Successfully defended an in-home healthcare provider in a significant discharge case for sick leave abuse and achieved a successful result in having the long-time inclusion of a supervisory group of employees overturned and the group removed from the bargaining unit.
Successfully defended an international trucking manufacturer in a proposed class action resulting from an Ontario plant closure.
Successfully defended an Ontario manufacturer against several significant grievances advanced by a local union on the basis that the grievances were untimely.
Successful in a decision before Ontario’s Divisional Court regarding an employee’s termination of a trade union’s bargaining rights.
Successful in arguing that the benefits available under province-wide collective agreement can be pro-rated for new hires in first year of employment.
Successful in arguing the union had agreed to an extension of the grievor’s probationary period and therefore the employer was entitled to release the grievor without proving just cause.