Employment & Labour

Offering comprehensive, tailored advice and creative solutions, BD&P navigates sensitive and complex employment and labour matters with a well-connected cross-disciplinary team. They are skilled in alternative dispute resolution, including mediation and arbitration, and have the advantage of extensive experience at all levels of court, commissions and tribunals when clients are faced with formal litigation. The team also appears before provincial and federal labour relations boards and arbitrators.

By drawing on the skills and knowledge of the firm's lawyers in privacy, securities, tax, intellectual property, occupational health and safety, workers' compensation, and other areas, the BD&P team can provide the best advice and craft the best solution for each client.

They provide advice on and draft employment contracts, independent contractor agreements, policies, practices and other employment-related agreements. That includes areas of harassment, discrimination, medical testing, drug and alcohol testing, human rights, COVID-19, document retention, privacy, confidentiality, and bonus and equity-related plans and policies. They also offer seminars for human resources teams and executives on all aspects of employment law.