Provide strategic advice to employers on merger with the CAAT Pension Plan.
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 argued on behalf of a hospital that the occupational health and safety assistant job classification should be excluded from the bargaining unit.
Arbitrated multiple job evaluation disputes for a police services board.
Received positive decisions from the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario on behalf of several private-sector employers dismissing applications on the basis of no reasonable prospect of success and/or delay.
Successfully defended a hospital’s management rights to determine the number of employees and the full-time/part-time mix of employees required to provide a service.
Acting as counsel to a professional sports league in a class action proceeding under the Competition Act.
Labour and employment counsel to one of Canada’s leading steel producers in its Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act restructurings.
Successfully defended a school board against a grievance alleging that the board had failed to hire a sufficient number of long-term occasional teachers to their roster.
Arbitrated multiple job evaluation disputes for a school board.
Obtained a positive arbitration award for a hospital confirming the hours worked during one’s probationary period are not to be credited towards a claim for recent related experience.