Overview

Companies across a broad range of industries – public and private, in Canada and internationally – choose Louise to advise on their labour and employment matters. She advises clients on employee transfers, executive compensation, downsizing and consolidations, wrongful dismissal, pay equity, workers’ compensation, health and safety issues, employment aspects of corporate mergers and acquisitions, and pension plans. Over her career, Louise has also developed significant expertise in international employment law. She routinely advocates client interests before administrative and civil tribunals.

Louise’s experience working for the Quebec Union of Service Employees has given her a unique perspective for negotiating collective agreements and related matters on behalf of her clients.

Louise volunteers her time on pro bono matters for various charities and non-profit organizations.

Acting for the World Anti-Doping Agency, a foundation initiated by the International Olympic Committee to promote, coordinate, and monitor the fight against drugs in sports, on a multitude on employment matters. These matters include international and domestic employment law issues such as hiring, dismissal and termination settlements, expatriate and non-expatriate agreements, discrimination, pay equity, occupational health and safety, human rights and more recently on the ever-changing regulations due to the global COVID-19.

Practising Law Institute, Cross-Border Employment Law 2018, “Global Diversity and Pay Equity”; New York, NY

International Bar Association, Annual Employment and Discrimination Conference, “Strategies for when a top executive is accused of harassment”; Montréal, QC

Premières en affaires, Conseils d’experts WebTV series, “Mobilité Internationale”

Hiring, Disciplining and Firing: A Soup-to-Nuts Review of What You Can and Can’t Do Overseas

Practice Areas

• Civil Litigation
• Corporate & Commercial Law
• Employment Law

Bar Information

Called to the bar: 1981 (QC)