Employment & Labour

Notable areas of expertise include the public sector, health services, manufacturing, professional services, entertainment, retail and transportation. With particular specialisms in health and safety law, labour relations, restrictive covenants dispute and wrongful dismissal litigation. In addition, our clients count on us to help them with their day-to-day advisory work. We also have a skilled team of trained lawyers who can conduct external workplace investigations of complex and sensitive issues in your workplace or assist and support you with your internal workplace investigations.

Let our seasoned team help you formulate policies and procedures governing matters such as:

• Occupational health and safety
• Harassment
• Electronic monitoring
• Sickness and disability
• Progressive discipline
• Corporate compliance
• Workplace investigations

We will represent you in matters involving employment standards, human rights, pay equity, workers’ compensation, collective agreements, wrongful dismissal and much more. We can also guide you through whistleblower concerns, corporate governance issues, fiduciary duties of senior management and other challenges.

Turn to Dentons' Employment and Labor group in Canada for customized, effective, multijurisdictional advice on employment and labor matters. Protecting your business is our primary concern, whether intellectual property, through tailor-made employment contracts, restrictive covenant and confidentiality agreements or other methods.