Paul A. Boniferro

Paul A. Boniferro

Paul Boniferro is a partner and the National Practice Group Leader of our Labour and Employment Group practicing in Calgary and Toronto. Mr. Boniferro is a past member of McCarthy Tétrault's Board of Partners. He uses his unique combination of experience gained in the private and government/political sectors to advise clients on a wide spectrum of employment and human resource issues, including executive compensation, terminations, wrongful dismissals, grievance arbitration, collective agreement negotiations, human rights complaints, government relations, occupational health and safety issues and WSIB claims.

His advice has been sought by governments of all stripes to provide assistance in developing policy and legislation in labour and employment law. Mr. Boniferro is a bi-annual presenter to the Retail Roundtable Compensation Survey Group where he updates all major Canadian Retailers on developments in the area of Labour and Employment Law. He negotiates with trade unions in the retail sector on behalf of major shopping center managers.

Prior to joining McCarthy Tétrault, Mr. Boniferro was a Senior Policy Advisor to the Ontario Minister of Labour during one of the province's most significant periods of labour relations reform, where he advised the government on changes to the Labour Relations Act, the Workers' Compensation Act, the Employment Standards Act and the Pay Equity Act. Since joining McCarthy Tétrault in 1996, he has been retained by the government on a number of occasions to provide advice on labour relations and employment issues. In 2004, Mr. Boniferro was appointed to the Minister of Labour's Employment Standards Action Group, and prior to that, was appointed by the Premier of Ontario to act as Special Negotiator with Québec on construction labour mobility.

He represents a wide number of private sector employers, both unionized and non-unionized, including those in manufacturing, energy, property management services, steel and hospitality.

Mr. Boniferro appears in the 2003 Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory, a guide to the leading lawyers in the area of labour and was selected as one of Lexpert's Top 40 Under 40 in September 2003. A much-requested presenter at labour and employment conferences, he is also an instructor for the Human Resources Professionals Association of Ontario (HRPAO) and is the past-chair of the HRPAO Government Affairs Committee. He is also a member of the Human Resources Association of Calgary (HRAC) and the Canadian and Calgary Bar Association, Labour and Employment Subsection.

Mr. Boniferro received his BA (Political Science) from the University of Western Ontario in 1987 and his LL.B. from Osgoode Hall Law School in 1991. He was called to the Ontario bar in 1993 and the Alberta bar in 2007. Mr. Boniferro has also studied in the MBA program at Lake Superior State University in Michigan.

(Also at Calgary, Alberta Office)