Labour and Employment Law

A short video introduction to Chris White, Head of Siskinds Labour & Employment Law Group.

To avoid liability, franchisors and manufacturers must keep abreast of rapidly changing employment laws. Clients rely on Siskinds Employment Law Team for counsel on daily and system-wide matters. Through preventative counselling, we help franchisors and manufacturers support, but not control, franchisees and distributors in employment issues. Our team advises franchisors and manufacturers in preparing operations manuals and in providing employment and staffing-related training programs for their franchisees and distributors.

Siskinds provides a full-service labour and employment group with specialized practitioners providing advice and representation on the entire range of issues in both unionized and non-unionized workplaces. We recognize the significant financial cost of labour and employment problems, and our goal is to help you: develop strategies to prevent problems; manage and resolve them if they do arise; and obtain the best result through experienced advocacy before third-party decision-makers (such as courts, tribunals, boards, arbitrators) where no other reasonable solution can be achieved.

Despite proactive efforts, however, employment claims sometimes do arise and our lawyers are capable and confident to provide excellent representation. Our Employment Law Team offers an array of services, including:

• Legal updates
• Employment-related contracts
• Employment agreements, including employment offer letters.
• Non-competition, non-solicitation, and confidentiality agreements.
• Change of control agreements.
• Stock option and bonus plans.
• Hirings and terminations.
• Employment-related litigation.
• Wrongful dismissal.
• Enforcement of obligations of terminated employees.
• Drafting/reviewing policies and procedures.
• Mergers and acquisitions/sale of business.
• Corporate reorganizations/restructuring.
• Managing employment-related issues
• Disability.
• Human rights.
• Pay equity.
• Occupational health and safety.
• Workers' compensation.
• Employment standards.
• Employment insurance proceedings.
• Preventative strategies to unionization.
• Responses to unionization campaigns.
• Certifications and decertifications.
• Negotiating collective agreements.

Moving Forward. We look forward to working together with you to start, expand or re-structure your system, or to solve whatever problem or seize whatever opportunity you're dealing with, anywhere. Contact Chris White at 800-816-9596 (or 519-672-2121 outside of North America) or electronically at chris.white@siskinds.com.