Jennifer Ronalds

Associate

“It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
- J.K. Rowling

Helping businesses thrive.

The regulatory framework surrounding labour and employment is complex. It creates rights and obligations for employers which impact their operations and business decisions. By having a thorough understanding of the client’s business, Jennifer ensures they clearly understand this framework and finds practical solutions that achieve the client’s business objectives. Jennifer’s practice areas include labour and employment, litigation and workplace human rights.

Representative matters

Understanding the legal implications that could arise from workplace issues are a challenge Jennifer’s clients face. Working with banks, communications firms, insurers, municipalities and the public sector, Jennifer helps her clients navigate these stressful situations. Her past experience includes:
  • Representing a municipal employer at an interest arbitration.
  • Acting for a business in the mediation of a human rights complaint.
  • Making a judicial review application to have the decision of a licensing body overturned.
  • Representing an international shipping company in collective bargaining negotiations.
  • Acting as defence counsel in personal injury and property damage claims.

Areas of practice:

  • Labour and Employment
  • Litigation
  • Employment Law
  • Workplace Human Rights
  • Labour Relations

BAR ADMISSION(S)

New Brunswick, 2010
Nova Scotia, 2007

LAW SOCIETY(IES)

Nova Scotia Barristers' Society
Law Society of New Brunswick

EDUCATION

Dalhousie University, LL.B., 2006
Dalhousie University, B.A., 2003
Aix-Marseilles Trois (Diploma in French Studies), 2001

ACTIVITIES

  • Member, Canadian Bar Association
  • Human Resources Association of New Brunswick, 2010-present
  • Board member, North End Community Health Center, Halifax, 2007-2009

LANGUAGE(S)

English, French

Publications

  • Regular contributor, Atlantic Employers’ Counsel

Presentations

  • Presenter, “Navigating Social Media in the Workplace”, July 2011
  • Presenter, Workplace Investigations, November, 2010
  • Presenter, “Hiring (and Firing) Temporary Foreign Workers”, Panel presentation at CBA-NS Annual Professional Development Conference, January 2010
  • Regular presenter, Labour and Employment Client Seminars, Stewart McKelvey

Suite 601, Blue Cross Centre
644 Main Street
Moncton, NB, Canada
E1C 1E2

P 506.853.1979
F 506.858.8454

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LEGAL ASSISTANT(S)

Chantal MacAusland

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