The Six-Minute Labour Lawyer 2009
Program originally held on June 17, 2009
Chair(s):
James G. Knight
Filion Wakely Thorup Angeletti LLP
Georgina Watts
Morrison Watts
Program Content
You will learn about:
- View from the Board
- Advocacy Before the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal
- Constitutional Right to Bargain Collectively - Fraser v. Ontario (Attorney General)
- Tough Times - Impact of Plant Closings & Shrinkages
- Tough Times - Lay-offs, Employment Standards Act and The Collective Agreement
- Why Non-Construction Unions Can't be Construction Unions
- Ontario's Response to Alberta Human Rights Trilogy of Drug Cases
- Bruce Power - Limits of Privilege & A Guide to Seeking Intervenor Status
- Criminal/Labour Overlap
- Recent Developments in the Federal Jurisdiction
- Interim Applications at the OLRB
- Cutting Edge Arbitration Issues
- Recent SCC Decisions on Duty to Accommodate
- Religious Holidays - Extent of Employer's Duty to Accommodate
- The Dreaded Injunction from Both Sides
- Use of Expert Evidence in Arbitration Proceedings (Panel Discussion)
Speakers
Kim Bernhardt, Grant & Bernhardt
Mary Ellen Cummings, Arbitrator and Mediator
Fay Faraday, Cavalluzzo Hayes Shilton McIntyre & Cornish LLP
Meghan E. Ferguson, Hicks Morley Hamilton Stewart Storie LLP
Frances R. Gallop, Filion Wakely Thorup Angeletti LLP
Mary J. Gleason, OGILVY RENAULT LLP
Michael Gottheil, Executive Chair, Environment and Land Tribunals Ontario
Kate Hughes, Cavalluzzo Hayes Shilton McIntyre & Cornish LLP
Caroline V. (Nini) Jones, Paliare Roland Rosenberg Rothstein LLP
James G. Knight, Filion Wakely Thorup Angeletti LLP
Erin R. Kuzz, Sherrard Kuzz LLP
Ron LeClair, Filion Wakely Thorup Angeletti LLP
James K. McDonald, Sack Goldblatt Mitchell LLP
J. Craig Morrison, Morrison Watts
Marilyn A. Nairn, Arbitrator/Mediator
Mark H. Rowlinson, United Steelworkers
Dan J. Shields, Shields O'Donnell MacKillop LLP
George T. Surdykowski, George T. Surdykowski Arbitration/Mediation Inc.
Bill Thompson, Sack Goldblatt Mitchell LLP
Georgina Watts, Morrison Watts
Kevin Whitaker, Ontario Labour Relations Board Chair




