About

Provided by Dentons Canada LLP

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

When dealing with organizational restructuring or change management, trust our comprehensive counsel on the human resource aspects and labor law implications. If you face claims of retaliation, employee misconduct, bullying, harassment or discrimination, Dentons will be in your corner. We help you address even the most sensitive and high-profile claims and investigations. We can also guide you through whistleblower concerns, corporate governance issues, fiduciary duties of senior management and other challenges. Members of our group appear regularly before courts, administrative boards and tribunals at every level, and act as spokespeople in collective bargaining. We will represent you in matters involving employment standards, human rights, pay equity, workers’ compensation, collective agreements, wrongful dismissal and much more.

Chambers Review

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Employment & Labour - Nationwide - Canada

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Band 3

What the Team is Known For

Dentons' unrivalled international presence offers national and multinational clients an excellent platform to advise on cross-border labour and employment concerns, with a wealth of resources to call upon in key business centres worldwide. Its team excels in the full gamut of employment concerns, including notable expertise in the retail, industrials, professional services and public sectors. Impressive employment practitioners are based out of the firm's offices in Toronto, Calgary, Vancouver and Montréal,

Work Highlights

  • Dentons represented Syncrude Canada, one of the world’s largest producers of synthetic crude oil, in a civil wrongful dismissal action filed by a former employee who was terminated for just cause.

Strengths

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Members

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