Soloway Wright

Employment and Labour Law - Droit du Travail

Helping you resolve your workplace problems rapidly, effectively and imaginatively

Soloway Wright LLP has a proud history of successfully advising and advocating on behalf of corporate employers, individual employees, professional associations and labour unions. We enjoy a respected national reputation in this field. Nous pratiquons et nous plaidons en français comme en anglais, et sommes fiers de vous offrir des services parfaitement bilingues en matière de droit du travail.

Unlike other law firms, which typically restrict themselves to representing either employers or employees, Soloway Wright represents both groups and has successfully resisted pressure to confine itself to one side. Over the years, our extensive experience representing both sides has given us valuable insights into the strengths, vulnerabilities and motivations of both management and labour to a degree that is unsurpassed by other law firms in Ottawa and Ontario. Our unique, bipartisan experience also enables us to approach settlement of difficult disputes flexibly, imaginatively, and free of ideological bias, in a manner which maximizes the benefits for our clients. Partly for this reason, we have an impressive record of rapidly achieving successful settlements for our clients.

We provide legal advice on all issues of employment law, labour law and human rights, including the following:

individual terminations of employment, with and without just cause;
mass terminations;
workforce reorganizations and constructive dismissal claims;
human rights complaints and adjudications under the Human Rights Act;
employment standards complaints and adjudications under the Employment Standards Act;
arbitration under the Canada Labour Code;
wrongful dismissal actions in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice;
unfair labour practices;
drafting and advising on employment contracts and employee handbooks;
drafting and advising on confidentiality agreements, non-solicitation agreements and non-competition agreements;

When, despite our best efforts, settlement proves elusive, the members of our Employment and Labour Law Group are not afraid to litigate que ce soit en anglais ou en français. Our track record of winning employment litigation and human rights disputes is exemplary. As a review of the law reports confirms, for over 50 years, Soloway Wright has cumulatively won more reported court decisions in the field of employment and labour law and human rights than most of its Ottawa competitors.