Employment & Labour
Canada Guide 2025 : Québec
Band 1
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Appropriately navigating the labour, employment, and human rights landscapes is essential to attracting, retaining, and motivating your employees and by extension successfully maintaining and developing your business.
With offices in all the major city centres across Canada, our Labour, Employment & Human Rights (LEHR) lawyers work with clients to provide proactive and pragmatic advice. Whether you need help to conclude innovative collective agreements or create risk management and compliance programs, we have the in-depth knowledge and experience required. In the event disputes arise, we will help you defuse tension among stakeholders and skillfully represent your interests in court, before tribunals or at arbitration.
As one of the largest national labour, employment and human rights practices in Canada, we are able to comprehensively assist clients with their LEHR needs across the country in a coordinated manner. We represent major federally regulated employers including banks, airlines, telecommunication companies and Crown corporations. We also advise many significant employers in a broad range of provincially regulated sectors including retail, manufacturing, mining, agriculture, education, health, financial services, among others.
Chambers Review
Fasken is a distinguished national law firm with a significant profile for employment and labour law in Québec. The team offers depth and breadth of expertise across a broad array of labour, employment and human rights matters, including collective bargaining, union grievances, termination disputes and labour standards issues. Its lawyers act for a range of national and international companies operating in both provincially and federally regulated settings, and they are also seen to advise on international labour law matters. The team also represents significant Québec-based employers, including the provincial government, and offers notable expertise in construction labour relations. The law firm offers services out of both Montréal and Québec City.
Work Highlights
- Fasken represented Via Rail in a voluntary interest arbitration regarding collective bargaining issues.
Strengths
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"The team at Fasken is able to deal with important cases with complex, varied and multidisciplinary legal issues. We feel confident when Fasken is mandated."
"Fasken has top-notch labour expertise."
"The team is very up to date with trends and best practices."
"The lawyers provide very useful and practical advice and are very responsive, with the ability to delegate smoothly in case of emergency or regarding cross-provincial matters."
"The team at Fasken is able to deal with important cases with complex, varied and multidisciplinary legal issues. We feel confident when Fasken is mandated."
"Fasken has top-notch labour expertise."
"The team is very up to date with trends and best practices."
"The lawyers provide very useful and practical advice and are very responsive, with the ability to delegate smoothly in case of emergency or regarding cross-provincial matters."
Notable Practitioners
Stéphane Fillion is based in Montréal, where he co-chairs Fasken's Québec labour, employment, and human rights group. He is esteemed for his activity on high-profile collective agreements and also regularly represents federal clients in disputes involving a range of issues, from health and safety matters to pensions and benefits.
"Stéphane Fillion is one of the best lawyers I have known. He has a very high level of political and strategic sense."
"He is the best lawyer to have on our case and provides great support."
"His advice and understanding of our organisation's needs are precious."
"Stéphane Fillion has an excellent memory and an extraordinary discipline to carry out his mandates successfully."
Magali Cournoyer-Proulx is a prominent employment lawyer based in Montréal who is especially skilled in disputes involving executive terminations and negotiations. In these matters, she advises on both litigation and alternative dispute resolution.
"Magali Cournoyer-Proulx is business-oriented, while always mastering the most intricate aspects of recent jurisprudence. She is a true ally in any complex labour law matter."
"Magali Cournoyer-Proulx is very solution-minded and effective."
Rhéaume Perreault is a skilled labour lawyer with extensive experience in employment legislation matters out of Montréal. He is also seen handling collective agreement negotiations.
"Rhéaume Perreault responds very quickly to our requests."
Dominique L'Heureux of Fasken is based in Montréal and is widely recognised for his work on high volume and complex collective bargaining agreements. He is also experienced in acting for both provincial and national clients across a range of industries during the arbitration of disputes.
Simon Laberge is an adept practitioner with experience in a range of labour and employment mandates, including collective agreements.
"Simon Laberge demonstrates exceptional availability and an interest in putting our decision-making in the context of our business objectives."
"He has a good understanding of the business, is unbelievably responsive and provides practical guidance."
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