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.
Practice Area: Labour Relations
Successfully defended an international trucking manufacturer in a proposed class action resulting from an Ontario plant closure.
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.
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 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 that STD 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.
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.
Successfully obtained an arbitration award for a hospital confirming that the elimination of shifts/lines on part-time schedule did not constitute a layoff or elimination of a position.
Successfully obtained an arbitration award for a hospital confirming that the elimination of shifts/lines on part-time schedule did not constitute a layoff or elimination of a position.
Represented a large Ontario public school board in an arbitration that resulted in the dismissal of an accommodation claim that sought to create a position for a teacher composed of valuable tasks previously assigned to other teachers.
Represented a large Ontario public school board in a 2015 arbitration that resulted in the dismissal of an accommodation claim that sought to create a position for a teacher composed of valuable tasks previously assigned to other teachers.
Successfully represented a major steel company in 2014 in upholding the legality of a collective agreement clause authorizing termination without cause.
Successfully represented a major steel company in 2014 in upholding the legality of a collective agreement clause authorizing termination without cause.
Successfully defended against applications for judicial review challenging the decisions of two different Ontario school boards to close schools in 2012 and 2014.
Successfully defended against applications for judicial review challenging the decisions of two different Ontario school boards to close schools in 2012 and 2014.