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What we do for our Labour & Employment clients

In every business, effective labour and employment strategies are essential to success and sustainability. Parlee McLaws’ Labour and Employment team brings years of experience to helping clients strengthen employee relationships, prevent issues and defend themselves against challenges.

Employment Contracts

Notice of Termination

Employment Consultations

We offer employment consultations to both employees, and small and emerging business
employers. These employment consultations can be used for the following

Initial Client Meeting
New Contract Review

For Employers

Understanding your rights, responsibilities and options provides you with the tools to ensure your business operates efficiently and in accordance with applicable legislation and the ever-evolving common law

Our Labour and Employment lawyers work closely with clients in both the organized labour context (unions) and the open employment sector.

Organized Labour (Unions)

In the organized labour realm, we act exclusively for employers and management, helping our clients navigate their responsibilities in a unionized
environment to create an effective labour relations strategy.
This includes:
- assisting with all aspects of union certification processes;
- collective bargaining with union representatives; and
- handling collective bargaining disputes through mediation, arbitration and litigation when required.
We also help employers and management with creating the kind of working environments that decrease employee interest in unionization.

Open Employment Sector

We assist employers of all sizes with the drafting of collective, executive and management agreements, as well as with a variety of employment, consulting and other employment-related agreements and workplace policies.
We also defend human rights complaints before the Alberta Human Rights Commission and the Canadian Human Rights Commission, and provide day-to-day counseling on various employment-related issues.

Labour & Employment Litigation

When issues such as wrongful dismissal or occupational health and safety charges arise, we provide strategic litigation defense to both unionized and non-unionized clients. Our litigation skills are increasingly being put to work helping employers deal with former employees who have breached confidentiality obligations and non-competition or non-solicitation agreements. As the world shifts to a more innovation-based economy, the need for employers to protect confidential and proprietary information from misuse by either current or former employees is becoming increasingly important. We work closely with Parlee McLaws’ Intellectual Property & Innovation (IP) group to help protect our clients’ assets.

For Employees & Contractors

We provide comprehensive assistance to individuals throughout all stages of their employment, offering strategic guidance, recommendations, and legal representation as trusted legal counsel. Our goal is to give our clients the tools to make informed decisions that align with their desired outcomes.

Wrongful and unjust dismissal
Initial contract review
Restrictive covenants
Executive compensation agreement
Pay Equity
Constructive Dismissal
Severance package review
Workplace and sexual harassment
Discrimination and Human rights
Career transition
Defamation and reputational damage
Reprisal

For more information about Labour & Employment law, contact us today.

News & Updates

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July 2024 | Labour & Employment

Does an Employee Have to Stay? Constructive Dismissal and the Duty to Mitigate

Written by: Kelly Lanyi-Bennet and Ranzell Ortega When an employee asserts that they have been constructively dismissed, it is not always clear what the next steps should be for either the employee or the employer. Specifically, there can be some confusion about when an employee must mitigate their loss of employment income by returning to […]

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January 2024 | Labour & Employment

A Selected Summary of Recent Human Rights Cases

by Nicole Cooper (Associate) and Mitchell Grimmer (Articling Student) Discrimination Webber Academy Foundation v Alberta (Human Rights Commission), 2023 ABCA 194 [Webber]: In this recent decision from the Alberta Court of Appeal, currently on leave to appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada, the Court considered the issue of customary Muslim practices in the context […]

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January 2024 | Labour & Employment

What Role does Control Play in Assessing Liability for a Workplace Accident?

A Case Summary of R v Greater Sudbury (City)[1] Written by Iain A. Walker (Partner) and Zachary Fischer (Articling Student) Overview The Supreme Court of Canada recently released its decision in R v Greater Sudbury (City) dismissing an appeal over the finding that a municipality was an employer under Ontario’s Occupational Health and Safety Act […]

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What we do for our Labour & Employment clients

Employment Contracts

Notice of Termination

Employment Consultations

For Employers

Organized Labour (Unions)

Open Employment Sector

Labour & Employment Litigation

For Employees & Contractors

For more information about Labour & Employment law, contact us today.

News & Updates

Stay up-to-date with what’s happening at Parlee McLaws and the decisions and events that matter to you.

Does an Employee Have to Stay? Constructive Dismissal and the Duty to Mitigate

A Selected Summary of Recent Human Rights Cases

What Role does Control Play in Assessing Liability for a Workplace Accident?

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What we do for our Labour & Employment clients

Employment Contracts

Notice of Termination

Employment Consultations

For Employers

Organized Labour (Unions)

Open Employment Sector

Labour & Employment Litigation

For Employees & Contractors

Lawyers

For more information about Labour & Employment law, contact us today.

News & Updates

Stay up-to-date with what’s happening at Parlee McLaws and the decisions and events that matter to you.