Stewart McKelvey lawyers work closely with the owners and managers of many of Atlantic Canada’s leading corporate and institutional employers, both large and small, private and public sectors, to fully understand their businesses and challenges they face. This enables us to be highly effective in developing strategies to avoid problems to the greatest extent possible while fully asserting the employer’s right to manage the workplace effectively and efficiently. We can manage all aspects of labour and employment law including:
• collective bargaining
• collective agreement administration
• labour arbitrations
• labour board proceedings
• workplace and business restructuring
• wrongful dismissal litigation
• employment standards issues
• occupational health and safety issues and prosecutions
• human rights concerns
• pay equity
• workers compensation
• pension and employee benefit issues.
Our clients include key participants in the retail trade, the service sector, healthcare, post-secondary education, all of the traditional resource based industries and emerging areas such as oil and gas and information technology.