Join the Dentons Canada labour team for the Labour Spotlight Series, a webinar series aimed at providing unionized employers across Canada with regular updates on the latest developments in labour law while creating a space to discuss practical issues that frequently arise in unionized workplaces such as bargaining, grievances, strikes and other hot topics.

If you are interested in attending an upcoming session, please contact dentonscanada.events@dentons.com.

Insights

• "To be in-person or remote at labour arbitration hearings… that is the question," Dentons Employment & Labour Law Blog, September 10, 2024
• “Damages in lieu of reinstatement in grievance arbitration,” Dentons Insights, January 17, 2024
• “Employers beware: The more dependent the worker the greater the labour exposure,” Dentons Insights, August 23, 2023
• "How should employers handle the monitoring of unionized workers?," Canadian HR Reporter, June 7, 2023
• "Management rights vs. privacy rights: The implications of electronic monitoring in the workplace," Dentons Insights, May 16, 2023
• "Managing medical marijuana in safety-sensitive workplaces," Dentons Insights, January 17, 2023
• "Ontario Superior Court of Justice rules that Bill 124 is unconstitutional," Dentons Employment & Labour Law Blog, December 6, 2022
• "Ontario introduces Bill 28, the Keeping Students in Class Act, 2022," Dentons Employment & Labour Law Blog, November 2, 2022
• "A balance of interests: What unionized employers need to know about electronic monitoring," Dentons Insights, September 8, 2022

Past events

Navigating attendance programs in unionized environments: Best practices and pitfalls CLE,CPD Event May 14, 2025 Canada: On May 14, as part of our Labour Spotlight Series, Russell Groves moderated a webinar where Roxana Jangi and Emily Kroboth shared practical insights to help unionized employers tackle attendance challenges, ensure compliance, and foster positive labour relations.

Workplace compliance: Drug testing and health & safety in unionized environments CLE,CPD Event February 12, 2025 On February 12, we hosted a webinar where April Kosten and Craig Lawrence provided valuable guidance on two critical topics affecting unionized workplaces: drug and alcohol testing and health and safety.

Who's naughty and nice? Navigating video surveillance in unionized workplaces and collective bargaining highlights CLE,CPD Event December 12, 2024 Canada: On December 12 we hosted a webinar on video surveillance and collective bargaining trends in unionized workplaces. We provided valuable insights and strategies to help navigate important workplace issues. During the webinar Russell Groves explored the legal issues surrounding video surveillance in unionized environments, while Emily Kroboth shared key updates on collective bargaining trends.

Everything you wanted to know about past practice and estoppel but were afraid to ask CLE,CPD Event March 27, 2024 Canada: Russell Groves and Fatimah Khan discussed the application of the often-confusing concepts of past practice and estoppel in various common labour relations situations. The session also covered steps you could take to end a past practice estoppel, and a range of other practical applications of these legal concepts. Additionally, Emily Kroboth provided an overview of collective bargaining trends.

The future of labour relations in a hybrid world CLE,CPD Event January 16, 2024 Canada: This session focused on the intersection between remote or flexible work and labour relations, including in the context of collective bargaining and labour disputes. We reviewed trends we have been seeing in collective bargaining related to remote and flexible work, provided a refresher on management rights, and ended with a discussion on how remote work would also impact labour disputes.

Risks of engaging dependent contractors and temp employees (and an update on bargaining trends) CLE,CPD Event October 19, 2023 Canada: In our fifth webinar in the Labour Spotlight Series, Russell Groves and Emily Kroboth spoke with Craig Lawrence about the risks of using dependent contractors and temp agency employees, along with important updates to hear on bargaining.

Managing multiple claims and investigations in unionized workplaces CLE,CPD Event June 14, 2023 Canada: In our fourth webinar in the Labour Spotlight Series, we provided an overview of strategies for managing multiple claims with your union personnel and investigations involving union personnel.

Using replacement workers during a strike CLE,CPD Event April 13, 2023 Canada: In our third webinar, we provided an overview of the rights, obligations, and practical considerations of employers in relation to the use of replacement workers during a labour dispute in different Canadian jurisdictions.

Issuing Discipline in Unionized Workplaces CPD Event December 13, 2022 Canada:In our second webinar in the Labour Spotlight Series, we provided an overview on employee performance management in the unionized context, including the procedural and substantive aspects of the discipline process, and will review the grievance management process.

Employee monitoring and privacy in unionized workplaces and bargaining trends September 28, 2022 Canada: In our first webinar in our Labour Spotlight Series, we addressed recent developments with respect to electronic monitoring and employee privacy and recent bargaining trends.