Lawyer Profile
Sarto Veilleux
Lévis, Québec
Overview
For more than 30 years, Sarto Veilleux has focused his practice on all aspects of labour, employment and administrative law. His clientele hails from all across Québec and consists of private- and public-sector employers under federal or provincial jurisdiction, in both unionized and non-unionized settings.
Sarto leverages his specialized expertise to provide his vast client base with consulting services and legal opinions. He manages and pleads a variety of files involving, for example, administrative and disciplinary management, termination of employment and psychological harassment. He also acts regularly in cases dealing with union certification, collective bargaining and grievance arbitration, and drafts individual employment contracts, employee manuals and a variety of administrative policies.
In addition, Sarto frequently advises and represents employers in connection with grievance arbitrations, complaints to the Commission des normes, de l’équité, de la santé et de la sécurité du travail (CNESST) and the Administrative Labour Tribunal (ALT), strikes and other labour disputes, union pressure tactics and maintaining essential services. He appears before civil courts and administrative tribunals in connection with suits, claims and complaints involving labour laws, charter rights and administrative law.
Sarto is known for his keen legal and advocacy skills, and has a knack for considering all the different stakes (financial, business, human and political) in the mandates entrusted to him. When it comes to choosing a top legal advisor, his clients greatly appreciate his practical approach, his ability to lead complex cases, and his negotiation and mediation skills.
Sarto taught labour and employment law at the Québec City Bar School and the Lévis campus of the UQAR (Université du Québec à Rimouski). Since then, he has been speaking at various conferences and provides training to clients, associations and HR associations.
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Bar Information
Called to the bar: 1995 (QC)