For employers
- Labour relations strategy and union response
- Collective agreement negotiation
- Grievance and arbitration defence
- Discipline, discharge and just cause
- Workplace investigations
- ESA and Human Rights Code compliance
Barristers & Solicitors · Mississauga, Ontario
Ontario labour and
employment counsel.
We negotiate, grieve, arbitrate and litigate for employers, unions and employees. We know how the other side prepares, because we have been the other side.
Article 1 · What are you facing?
Start with the situation.
I was terminated or offered severance
Do not sign yet. Review, negotiation, wrongful and constructive dismissal.
I am facing harassment or discrimination
Human rights applications, accommodation, discipline and reprisal.
We need to terminate or restructure
Notice, packages and a process that will not come back on you.
We need an investigation or policies
Independent workplace investigations and policies that hold up.
A grievance is heading to arbitration
Carriage from filing to award, advocacy or defence.
We are organizing or heading into bargaining
Certification applications, first contracts, renewal bargaining.
Article 2 · Who we act for
For unions & employees
- Organizing and certification applications
- Collective bargaining and first contracts
- Grievance and arbitration advocacy
- Wrongful dismissal and severance review
- Harassment, discrimination and human rights
- Reprisal, health and safety matters
From a single severance review to a province-wide bargaining unit.
Article 3 · Practice areas
The work, clause by clause.
3.1
Collective bargaining
Proposal development, costing, strategy at the table and ratification. First agreements through to mature relationships.
3.2
Grievance & arbitration
Carriage of grievances from filing to award: discipline, discharge, interpretation disputes and policy grievances.
3.3
OLRB & CIRB proceedings
Certification, unfair labour practice complaints, related employer applications and everything else the boards hear.
3.4
Terminations & severance
Wrongful and constructive dismissal, severance review and negotiation, Employment Standards Act claims.
3.5
Human rights & investigations
Human Rights Code applications, accommodation disputes and independent workplace investigations.
3.6
Strikes, lockouts & picketing
Lawful work stoppage planning, picketing protocols, injunctions and essential services agreements.
Article 4 · How we work
Three steps, no mystery.
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4.1
Tell us what happened
Explain the issue in plain terms and send what you have. That is enough to start.
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4.2
We review where you stand
Facts, exposure and options, in plain language. You leave knowing where you stand, whether or not you retain us.
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4.3
Strategy & retainer
Scope, strategy and fees in writing before the file opens. No surprises on invoices, ever.
Article 5 · The firm
Built on both sides of the bar.
The firm serves employers, trade unions and working people across the Greater Toronto Area and Ontario, before arbitrators, the Ontario Labour Relations Board and the courts. No client too small, no file too complex.
Counsel profiles, credentials and call to the bar will be published here at launch.
Article 6 · Contact
Request a consultation.
Tell us which side of the table you are on and what the matter concerns. We reply within one business day.
Do not include confidential details in this form. This site does not create a solicitor-client relationship.
Mississauga, Ontario · By appointment
