Whether you need proactive advice on the legal impacts of proposed workplace changes or you need effective litigators to handle labour/employment disputes, BLG’s Labour and Employment Group will work with you to drive results.

Our Labour and Employment Group offers the right advice as it applies to:

• Human resources, including drafting and litigating employment contracts, restrictive covenants, compensation, severance and stock option agreements, human rights/accommodation, attendance management, employment policy manuals, health and safety standards, health and welfare plans, pension and benefits and business immigration
  
  
• Conducting training and investigations, including in the areas of harassment, human rights or fraud allegations
  
  
• Labour relations advice and litigation services, including defending unionization claims, collective bargaining representation, unfair labour practice and bad-faith bargaining complaints, strikes, lockouts and picketing injunctions, successorships, common employer applications, grievances and arbitration
  
  
• Litigating cases at all levels of Court in the areas of wrongful dismissal, constructive dismissal, just cause dismissal and other civil litigation, as well as litigating before administrative tribunals such as human rights tribunals, labour relations boards, employment standards adjudicators, workers compensation boards, pay equity tribunals and occupational health and safety adjudicators
  
  
• Advising on and litigating cases resulting from mergers, acquisitions, outsourcing transactions, relocations and closures

To give you the full breadth of BLG’s expertise, members of the Labour and Employment Group work closely with our lawyers in other specialized areas, including lawyers in the fraud group, the mergers and acquisitions group and the bankruptcy and insolvency group. No matter what industry you work in, we can quickly assemble a team to handle your labour and employment needs.

Because we have Labour and Employment specialists in all of BLG’s offices, we are well-positioned to provide you with timely, effective strategies to deal with national labour and employment issues.  Whether you are concerned with issues on a local level or Canada-wide, BLG’s Labour and Employment Group can partner with you to design a solution that accomplishes your business needs.