Tim Lawson

Tim is a partner in Toronto and the Head of McCarthy Tetrault’s National Labour and Employment Group. Practicing Canadian management-side labour and employment law on behalf of national and global employers. Provides advice and advocacy in all areas including union organizing, appellate advocacy, collective bargaining, grievance arbitration, provincial and federal labour boards, corporate structuring pre-and post-acquisition, human rights, employment standards, workers compensation, privacy, and pay and employment equity. Frequent author, interviewee and speaker on labour and employment issues and government policy.

Ontario Bar, 1993

CBA, LSO, Toronto Law Association, American Bar Association, Transport Lawyers Association, Canadian Association of Counsel to Employers.

• Increasing Common Law Notice Awards In Recent Years (with Andrew Weizman) – May 29, 2025

• Equity Compensation: Legal Drafting and Best Practices (with Andrew Weizman, Sheren Kamaei, and law students Gavin Jolly and Rianna Spence) – 2024 CACE Conference Presentation Paper

• New Canada Labour Code Amendments Regarding Hours of Work (with Andrew Weizman and Mia Music) – September 28, 2023

• Federal Notice of Termination Amendments Starting February 1, 2024 (with Andrew Weizman) – July 21, 2023

• Key Takeaways from Mondaq webinar by McCarthy Tétrault LLP - Canadian Employment Law Considerations in 2023 (with Patrick -Pengelly, Jessica Wuergler and Marco Fimiani) – May 25, 2023

• Federal Budget 2023: What Employers Need to Know (with Deron Waldock, Julia Miller and Andrew Weizman) – April 14, 2023

• Attention Federally-Regulated Employers: Paid Sick Leave Coming Soon (with Nicole Deniset and Razan Mohamed) – August 8, 2022

• Is There Currently a Pro-Union Movement in Canada? (with Marco Fimiani) – July 25, 2022

• Key Takeaways from the 2021 Labour and Employment Conference: Ontario and Alberta (with Benjamin T. Aberant, Stéphane Duval, Nicole Deniset, Marco Fimiani, Carolyn Lee, Justine Lindner, Kate McNeill-Keller, Nicole Naglie, Patrick Pengelly, Ben Ratelband, Simmy Sahdra, Alex Treiber and Shana Wolch) – November 1, 2021