Labour Employment & Exployee Benefits – Flexible Compliance
Dispute Resolution – Taking Charge
October 10, 2022Intellectual Properties – Protecting Assets
October 10, 2022Labour Employment & Exployee Benefits – Flexible Compliance
People are essential to your business. When it comes to employing them, however, few things are ever simple, their legal rights, personal needs and cultural expectations present both opportunities and risks.
The laws and regulations governing relationships between employers and employees are complex, confusing and sometimes contradictory. If you don’t know your rights – or respect them – your productivity, profitability and reputation can all suffer.
We understand that business success requires legally sound, strategically savvy labour and employment policies and practices. Our Labour, Employment & Employee Benefits Practice Group focus is to help employers comply with the law, prevent unwanted issues from arising and continuously adapt to the realities of an intensely competitive global economy.
How We Can Help
We help with wage and hour issues, unionizing activities, collective bargaining, and interpretation of work rules, grievances and industrial disputes.
We help manage immigration issues, mostly related to visas and work permits that come with hiring foreign employees.
We provide counsel on separation agreements, as well as the legal regulatory notice requirements associated with reductions in force and plant closings.
We defend or prosecute claims of wrongful discharge, discrimination, harassment, whistleblower actions and protection of intellectual property. protection issues.
We provide practical counselling to sponsoring employers, trustees, and plan administrators involved in running occupational pension plans on all aspects of legislative, regulatory and fiscal requirements.
We help draft non-competition agreements and nondisclosure agreements, train employees non policies concerning confidentiality and conduct audits on trade secret.
Our Practice Areas
- Litigation Department
- Corporate Practice
- Banking & Finance – Global Knowledge & Execution
- Insurance – Risk or Opportunity
- Bankruptcy/Financing Restructuring – Time Matters
- Financial Crimes – Giving Hope
- Dispute Resolution – Taking Charge
- Labour Employment & Exployee Benefits – Flexible Compliance
- Intellectual Properties – Protecting Assets
- Real Property Management