Employment & Labour Law
Employment Law
Do you or your company need help to protect your interests? Dyson Law provides efficient, skilled and friendly service for businesses and professionals with their employment law matters. We assist with cases of wrongful dismissal, labour arbitrations and negotiations, employment agreements and more.
Wrongful Dismissal Claims
We have experience defending and prosecuting claims for wrongful dismissal from employment and specific expertise assisting managers, sales professionals and business owners navigating wrongful dismissal issues.
If you have been terminated from your position, you may be entitled to severance pay and/or a reasonable notice period.
Sometimes employers will terminate an employer for cause to avoid giving the employee notice or severance. In those cases, the employer must prove cause and the standard of proof is high.
If the termination is done in a disrespectful manner, increased severance and possibly aggravated or punitive damages may be the result.
Employment Agreement Drafting
We regularly assist employers with the drafting and review of comprehensive employment agreements for non-union staff.
Occupational Health and Safety Issues
We have experience upholding both employer and employee interests in cases involving WorkSafe BC.
Development of Safety Policies
We have experience working with HR and employee safety professionals to develop effective safety policies and manuals that comply with British Columbia law.
Non-Competition Situations - Dispute Resolution and Document Review
We have experience helping our clients navigate the world of non-competition agreements and fiduciary duties. We give advice on this topic and represent our clients in court on non-compete clauses and issues of possible breaches of fiduciary duty.
Standing up to Threats of Legal Action Against Financial Advisors
We have represented several financial advisors (and their new employers) over the years who planned to leave their corporate financial institution employers to move to a different office. In each case, their former financial institution employers retained lawyers and threatened legal action against our clients for accepting business from former clients of the employees.
In every case, we successfully navigated and accompanied our clients through the process of moving to a different financial firm or their own new firm without lengthy or expensive litigation.
Reviewing Employment & Corporate Sale Contracts with Confidentiality, Non-Solicitation, Business Book Retention Clauses
We regularly review, draft, and help negotiate draft employment contracts for our employee, employer and business clients. We routinely review, draft and advise on confidentiality and non-solicitation clauses.
Class Actions and Multiple Party Employment Disputes/Litigation
At Dyson Law, we are set up to handle employment disputes that may involve a group or class of employees.
In a couple of cases we represented hundreds of employees whose employers were changing the composition of the tip pools across their business chains. In both cases we obtained injunctions to stop the employer from altering the tip pools without the consent of the employees.
Labour Law
Our firm has experience assisting businesses with their labour law issues. We have successfully resolved grievances through arbitration, negotiation and mediation.
On an almost weekly basis, we provide expert opinion advice regarding the interpretation of collective agreements to our employer clients.
Our usual approach is to attempt a consensual solution to ensure workplace harmony. However, if that’s not possible, we will not hesitate to push a contentious matter to an arbitration panel or a hearing in Court or the Labour Relations Board of British Columbia.
In negotiating collective agreements on behalf of employers, we concentrate on avoiding ambiguity in the collective agreement language. Ambiguity increases litigation risk which a careful employer will wish to reduce.
- Does your business require assistance interpreting or negotiating a collective agreement?
- Do you require representation at an arbitration hearing?
- Is your business contemplating a dismissal of a union employee?
- Are your employees pushing to unionize your facility?
If your business answers “yes” to any of the above questions, please phone us for an expert, professional consultation.
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