Employment & Labour Associate - 3 to 6 Years' Experience (Toronto or Ottawa)

The role

Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt is seeking an Employment & Labour Associate with 3-6 years of PQE for their Toronto or Ottawa office. This role will focus on advising and representing a diverse range of clients on all aspects of workplace law within the firm's highly regarded Employment and Labour Department.

What you'll do

• Advise and represent clients on implications of corporate transactions and reorganizations
• Advise and represent clients on employment contracts and executive compensation
• Advise and represent clients on emerging and high growth company employment issues, including company formation, founder employment agreements and venture-backed financing transactions
• Advise and represent clients on structuring employee dismissals/layoffs and responding to wrongful/constructive dismissal claims
• Advise and represent clients on new labour and business structures, including “gig economy” issues
• Advise and represent clients on human rights, workplace accommodations, and workplace investigations
• Advise and represent clients on employment standards and workplace policies
• Advise and represent clients on occupational health and safety, workers’ compensation, pay equity and employment equity
• Advise and represent clients on collective agreement administration, collective bargaining, union certification/decertification, strikes, lockouts and grievance arbitration

What we're looking for