Successful in limiting a school board’s liability in a grievance seeking over 30 years of retroactive enrolment in OMERS.
Practice Area: Labour Relations
Represented an employer at arbitration where the dismissal of an employee for fraudulently claiming benefits over a prolonged period relating to various absences was successfully upheld.
Represented an employer at arbitration where the dismissal of an employee for fraudulently claiming benefits over a prolonged period relating to various absences was successfully upheld.
Successfully represented various school boards at the Ontario Labour Relations Board in the decision that found ETFO to have engaged in an illegal strike by counseling its members in concert to refuse extra-curricular duties.
Successfully represented various school boards at the Ontario Labour Relations Board in the decision that found ETFO to have engaged in an illegal strike by counseling its members in concert to refuse extra-curricular duties.
Persuaded an arbitrator to order the production of a grievor’s complete medical file to his manufacturing employer, in order to support his claim for workplace accommodation.
Against the wishes of the grievor, persuaded the arbitrator to order the production of the grievor’s complete medical file to his manufacturing employer, in order to support his claim for workplace accommodation.
Successfully defended a manufacturer’s decision to terminate an employee for petty theft.
Successfully defended a manufacturer’s decision to terminate an employee for petty theft.
Persuaded an arbitrator to accept a beverage manufacturing employer’s position that its voluntary severance program did not discriminate against disabled employees.
Persuaded an arbitrator to accept a beverage manufacturing employer’s position that its voluntary severance program did not discriminate against disabled employees.
Persuaded an arbitrator to allow a municipal employer’s grievance against a union with respect to deliberate damage caused to the employer’s vehicle by the employee.
Persuaded an arbitrator to allow a municipal employer’s grievance against a union with respect to deliberate damage caused to the employer’s vehicle by the employee.
Successfully defended a construction association and its executive director against an injunction attempting to prevent the implementation of a collective agreement provision brought by an individual contractor.
Successfully defended a construction association and its executive director against an injunction attempting to prevent the implementation of a collective agreement provision brought by an individual contractor.
Successfully defended large power sector client against a grievance in the construction industry regarding the removal of a long-standing benefit not captured by the collective agreement language.
Successfully defended large power sector client against a grievance in the construction industry regarding the removal of a long standing benefit not captured by the collective agreement language.
Successfully upheld the discharge of a tenured university faculty member for quid pro quo sexual harassment of a student.
Successfully upheld the discharge of a tenured university faculty member for quid pro quo sexual harassment of a student.