Represented an employer and insurance company at the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario successfully arguing that the practice of coordination of spousal benefits is not discriminatory.
Practice Area: Pensions, Benefits & Compensation
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 represented a financial institution at trial in defending a claim relating to incentive compensation.
Successfully represented a financial institution at trial in defending a claim relating to incentive compensation.
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Successfully represented a major bank on a multi-million-dollar human rights proceeding involving the bank’s pension plan before the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal.
Successfully represented a major bank on a multi-million-dollar human rights proceeding involving the bank’s pension plan before the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal.
Successfully represented a hospital in a judicial review application relating to jurisdiction of an arbitrator to hear a significant pension claim.
Successfully represented a hospital in a judicial review application relating to jurisdiction of an arbitrator to hear a significant pension claim.
Natasha D. Monkman
Natasha Monkman is a pensions and benefits lawyer in Hicks Morley’s Toronto office and the chair of the firm’s Pensions, Benefits and Compensation Practice Group. She regularly advises employers on governance, plan administration, investment and compliance matters relating to their employee benefit plans and pension plans as well as compensation matters.
Frank Cesario
Frank is a senior litigator in Hicks Morley’s Toronto office. He is a strategic counsel for his clients, and has significant courtroom and hearing experience representing clients in complex and high-profile cases.
Represented a media company plan administrator before the Ontario Superior Court and the Court of Appeal for Ontario in a precedent-setting case establishing the standard for separation agreement language needed to create a pension plan assignment following a member’s marriage breakdown.
Represented a media company plan administrator before the Ontario Superior Court and the Court of Appeal for Ontario in a precedent-setting case establishing the standard for separation agreement language needed to create a pension plan assignment following a member’s marriage breakdown.
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