Maude Grenier advises small and medium-sized businesses and large corporations on all aspects of employment and labour law. She represents them before various administrative tribunals, particularly in matters pertaining to the interpretation and application of collective agreements, dismissals and occupational health and safety. She is experienced in the use of injunctions and in contempt of court proceedings in the context of non-compete agreements and strikes and lockouts.
Ms. Grenier also assists employers with routine management of their employment and labour relations, including the use of disciplinary and administrative measures, dismissals, the drafting of various policies (such as on workplace harassment and absenteeism) and occupational health and safety matters. She also helps her colleagues in various files to ensure that employers receive the highest level of support for both research and representation.
Before joining our Montréal office, Maude Grenier clerked for six months with a judge of the Quebec Court of Appeal. In 2007 she was a teaching assistant for the course Civil Procedure II in the Bachelor of Laws program at Université de Sherbrooke.
Rankings and recognitions
· Dean's Prize and Quebec Bar Prize
· Maurice Delorme Prize
· Scholarship of the Fondation de l'université de Sherbrooke
Related Publications
Barring persons under 18 from "risk-sensitive positions" not only a right, but an obligation for employers
On November 12, 2011, arbitrator Jean-Louis Dubé affirmed that employers have not only the right, but the obligation to bar individuals under 18 years of age from jobs that are likely to be detrimental to their health and physical or moral development.
16/02/2012
Quebec Court of Appeal affirms freedom to compete aggressively
In a ruling handed down on December 15, 2011, the Quebec Court of Appeal reaffirmed the right of every business to compete freely with its rivals, which efforts may include targeting, soliciting directly, and potentially hiring, a competitor's employees.
05/03/2012
New obligations for employers under the Private Security Act
PSA replaces the Act respecting detective or security agencies2, which required detective and security agencies and agents working within such agencies to hold permits and which had not been overhauled since its enactment in 1962.
22/10/2010
Les décisions récentes portant sur la non-concurrence en droit de l'emploi : quelles sont les leçons à tirer?
Dans Service de la formation continue, Barreau du Québec, vol. 313, Développements récents en droit de la non-concurrence (2009), Cowansville, Éditions Yvon Blais, p. 51.
01/11/2009
Criminal offences and discrimination in the workplace
The Supreme Court of Canada recently handed down a decision in Montréal (City) v. Québec (Commission des droits de la personne et des droits de la jeunesse) where it examined the rule...
30/09/2008