Brad is a management-side labour and employment lawyer who specializes in employment, labour, pay equity, human rights and education law.
Brad's hybrid practice comprises both advice-based solicitor work and advocacy-based litigation work. He regularly advises and represents both private and public sector employers on a wide range of issues, including employee terminations, discipline, workplace accommodations, pay equity, contracts and policies, employment standards, health and safety, union grievances, unfair labour practice complaints, collective bargaining and human rights applications. Brad frequently appears before the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, Ontario Labour Relations Board and the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario.
Prior to joining BLG, Brad practised at another national law firm.
Experience
- Marazzato v. Dell Canada Inc., 2021 ONSC 248 (CanLII), where Brad, along with co-counsel Jeff Mitchell, was partially successful on a summary judgment motion and established that the client’s LTI Award Agreement unambiguously removed the employee’s entitlement over the common law notice period.
- A Canadian post-secondary institution, successfully having a human rights application dismissed following a preliminary objection to the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario's jurisdiction to hear the matter.
- A Canadian employer, successfully having an interim order application dismissed in its entirety at the Ontario Labour Relations Board.
- Marazzato v. Dell Canada Inc., 2021 ONSC 248 (CanLII), where Brad, along with co-counsel Jeff Mitchell, was partially successful on a summary judgment motion and established that the client’s LTI Award Agreement unambiguously removed the employee’s entitlement over the common law notice period.
- A Canadian post-secondary institution, successfully having a human rights application dismissed following a preliminary objection to the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario's jurisdiction to hear the matter.
- A Canadian employer, successfully having an interim order application dismissed in its entirety at the Ontario Labour Relations Board.