Lawyer Profile
Catherine Pronovost
Montreal, Quebec
Overview
Catherine Pronovost is a partner at Borden Ladner Gervais in Montreal. She practises labour and employment law, with a focus on occupational health and safety, labour relations, employment disputes, human resources management, workplace injury claims, collective agreements, discipline and labour standards. She advises unionized and non-unionized employers, represents clients before the Administrative Labour Tribunal and provides workplace training. She previously practised employment and labour law at Norton Rose Fulbright from October 2010 to October 2018.
Practice Areas
Bar Information
Quebec, 2006
Professional Details
Education
LL.B., Université de Montréal, 2003
Associations
Canadian Bar Association
Ordre des conseillers en ressources humaines et en relations industrielles agréés (CRHA, CHRP)
Awards & Recognition
The Best Lawyers in Canada, Labour and Employment Law, recognized since 2025; 2026 edition
The Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory, Employment Law, 2026
Articles & Speeches
Co-author, An Employer Convicted of Manslaughter Following the Death of his Employee on the Job, April 2018
Co-author, Vers une nouvelle pondération du critère de la volonté des salariés dans le cadre du fractionnement d'une unité d'accréditation?, CRHA, June 2017
Passage of Bill 89: Giving greater consideration to the public's needs during strikes and lock-outs, 2025
Occupational health and safety: Five new provisions to the AIAOD effective October 6, 2022
Ebola virus: What to do when an employee is about to travel to Uganda or another affected country
The end of the third round in the dispute over right of managers to unionize, 2022
Une première sentence arbitrale au Québec autorise la divulgation obligatoire du statut, 2021
An act to modernize the occupational health and safety regime, 2021
Consequences for QC employers failing to provide their workers with a safe environment, 2020
Coming out of the COVID-19 lockdown: issues and challenges facing Canadian employers, 2020
Support Team
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