Lawyer Profile
Paule Veilleux
Québec, Québec
Overview
Paule also acts as spokesperson for employers at the bargaining table during negotiations for the renewal of collective agreements when charter issues are involved. She has also participated in several mediations in human rights Commission files involving issues of discrimination based on grounds like handicap, age, gender and ethnic origin.
Paule appears before all levels of the civil courts and administrative tribunals, including the Supreme Court, the Court of Appeal, the Court of Québec, the Superior Court, and in grievance arbitrations before the Administrative Labour Tribunal (ALT) and the Tribunal des droits de la personne et des droits de la jeunesse (Québec human and youth rights tribunal).
Paule is regularly called upon to give conference presentations and training sessions in connection with labour and employment law, at which she addresses topics such as psychological harassment, reasonable accommodation, the management of disciplinary files and occupational health and safety files and the allocation of costs in occupational health and safety funding. She has been a presenter at major conferences organized by the firm, the Québec Bar and the Québec School Boards Federation, at which she has addressed various topics involving labour relations, occupational health and safety issues and issues involving the federal and provincial charters of rights.
In addition, she has written several articles on occupational health and safety and labour law for specialized journals. She is also co-author of the book Le harcèlement et les lésions psychologiques (Harassment and Psychological Trauma) (re-edited in 2012). She edited the chapter on the dismissal of public service managers in Règlement sur certaines conditions de travail applicables aux cadres des agences et des établissements de santé et de services sociaux annoté, a book on the law applicable to employment conditions of executives in health and social services agencies written by Eugène Abarrategui and published in 2007. She also revised chapters of the book Le droit du travail (Labour Law), published by Éditions Yvon Blais, and worked on a book on the same subject produced by the Québec Bar School.
Practice Areas
Bar Information
Called to the bar: 1986 (QC)