Recognition for Our Work
The Group has been recognized as a leader in the Canadian marketplace by Chambers Global's
Guide to the Leading Lawyers for Business. The Group has also been endorsed by
PLC Which Lawyer?, with our Quebec practice cited in the area of labour and employment and our Ontario practice cited in the area of pensions and benefits.
Employment Law Services
We regularly assist employers and their executives with:
- Business immigration and relocation;
- Compliance with employment related statutes;
- Director and officer liability issues and fiduciary duties;
- Drafting and enforcing confidentiality, non-solicitation and non-competition covenants;
- Employee drug and alcohol testing;
- Employment contract and incentive compensation issues;
- Employment-related class proceedings;
- Health and safety in the workplace including the strategic planning of worker's compensation assessments (Quebec);
- Human rights and harassment in the workplace;
- Incentive compensation such as bonus plans and stock option plans;
- Management education and training;
- Managing chronically ill and absent employees;
- Occupational health and safety;
- Outsourcings, restructurings and plant and facility closures;
- Pay equity;
- Privacy and access to information issues in the employment setting;
- Pleading employment-related litigation;
- Privacy and access to information issues;
- Proactive and strategic advice regarding relevant laws;
- Reorganization and workforce reduction;
- Strategic human resources planning;
- Termination and severance practices and arrangements;
- Transition and retention programs, and retirement benefits;
- Workplace policies; and
- Wrongful dismissal.
Labour Law Services
In the field of labour relations, we focus exclusively on representing management. Our services in this field include advice and representation in:
- Collective agreement administration;
- Collective bargaining;
- Discipline and termination of employment;
- Instituting proactive and positive employee relations practices and programmes;
- Labour arbitration and dispute resolution;
- Industrial conflicts (strikes, lock-outs and picketing);
- Successor-employer proceedings;
- Unfair labour practices;
- Union organizing, certification and decertification campaigns; and
- Strategic labour advice.
Members of the Group regularly appear as counsel for employers in the courts and before various employment and labour-related administrative tribunals both under federal and provincial legislation.
Professional Activities
Several members of the group have lectured at the university level, authored books, legal service manuals and articles, including Le congédiement déguisé au Québec - Fondements théoriques et aspects pratiques, The Employment Contract, Le contrat d'emploi, Executive Employment Law, Les dirigeants: leurs droits et leurs obligations, as well as a section dealing with labour law in the publication titled Doing Business in Canada.
Value-Added Client Resources
As part of our effort to remain at the forefront of client service, we have developed an employment and pension law blog, featuring practical and timely information and commentary on important legal and policy developments in this area of law, including termination of employment, executive compensation, human rights, occupational health and safety, pension plan, governance, pension fund investment issues, overtime, social networking pension plan mergers, conversions and other restructurings, insolvency-related pension issues, employment standards, drug testing legislation updates and privacy. The blog is fully searchable with extensive archived materials, indexed by topic, and allows users to subscribe for regular updates via email or RSS feed.
The blog is available at www.CanadianEmploymentPensionLaw.com.
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