Practice Areas & Industries: Ogilvy Renault LLP

Practice/Industry Group Overview

At Ogilvy Renault, we understand that people are an organization's most valuable resource. We help our clients to maintain this essential resource, whether they need to strengthen their workforce, expand or decrease operations or resolve disputes.

Ogilvy Renault is a leader in the representation of employers in Canada. With over 60 professionals who practise exclusively in the area of management employment and labour law, our group is one of the largest and most experienced in the country.

Private and public sector employers, both unionized and non-unionized, rely on us for tailored, cost-effective solutions to all work-related issues. We partner with our clients' human resources, labour relations and in-house legal counsel to manage files and cases, allowing them to remain focused on day-to-day business. We provide ongoing strategic advice as expert advisors, fostering long-term relationships and a deep awareness of clients' requirements.

Our team includes:

• Lawyers
• Researchers devoted exclusively to labour and employment law matters
• Paralegals/law clerks
• Occupational health and safety nurses (with extensive experience in workers' compensation matters).

We are proud to serve many of the country's most successful employers in diverse industries, including manufacturing, forest resources, agriculture, mining, retail, food service, high-tech, education, electrical utilities, health care, pharmaceuticals, construction, government, media, telecommunications, shipping, longshoring, rail, road and bus transportation, aerospace, air traffic control, banking, financial services, insurance, atomic energy and postal, courier, security and personnel services.

CONTACT
John B. West

Services Available

• Business immigration and international mobility
• Collective bargaining
• Collective agreement administration
• Construction labour law
• Defence of employment-related class proceedings
• Discipline and termination of employment
• Downsizing and layoffs
• Employment contracts
• Employment equity
• Employment insurance
• Essential services
• Executive stock options and incentives
• Federal labour and employment law
• Grievance arbitration
• Good management practices and programs aimed at maintaining employees' satisfaction with their working conditions and environment
• Human rights and harassment in the workplace
• Injunctions
• Job evaluations
• Judicial review
• Labour arbitration and dispute resolution
• Labour and employment standards
• Language legislation
• Management training
• Non-disclosure, non-solicitation and non-competition agreements
• Occupational health and safety
• Outsourcing, restructuring and sale of business
• Pay equity
• Pension and benefits law
• Picketing prevention and restraint
• Privacy law and access to information
• Professional negligence and discipline
• Progressive human resources strategies
• Provincial labour and employment law
• Strikes and lockouts
• Unfair labour practice complaints
• Union certification and decertification
• Workers' compensation and workplace safety and insurance
• Workplace policies, including Internet, e-mail and IT policies
• Wrongful dismissal