Kate McNeill-Keller

Practice Areas

Kate McNeill-Keller is a Partner in the firm’s Labour & Employment Group in Toronto. Kate provides strategic and practical advice to federally and provincially regulated employers in the private and public sectors in all aspects of labour and employment law.

Kate’s expertise includes statutory compliance (including employment standards, occupational health and safety, accessibility, human rights), workplace governance and design (including the drafting of employment contracts as well as workplace policy development, implementation, training and enforcement), human resources and labour relations advisory matters, collective bargaining, management of workplace investigations, workplace dispute resolution and litigation (including litigation before courts, labour boards, human rights tribunals, labour adjudicators and other dispute resolution bodies, as well as employment class actions). Kate acts as a workplace investigator on workplace harassment and discrimination matters and routinely advises clients on crisis management, providing a calm, thoughtful and pragmatic approach to reputationally sensitive matters.

Kate’s clients carry on business in the public, broader public and private sectors, in sectors including banking, insurance and financial services, professional services and accounting, post-secondary and public education, government, social services, energy, retail, and manufacturing.

Kate leads our firm’s Education Industry Group in Ontario, is the Co-Chair of our National Alumni Program, is a member of the Ontario Region Professional Resources Committee and National Harassment Committee, and is an active participant in our Gender Action Group as part of our Inclusion Now program.

Outside of the office, Kate is a member of the Board of Directors of New Haven Learning Centre (supporting individuals with ASD and their families) and is a past Director of the Canadian Centre for Ethics and Corporate Policy.