Employment & Labour
Canada Guide 2025 : Alberta
Band 3
About
Provided by Dentons Canada LLP
Turn to Dentons' Employment and Labour group in Canada for customized, effective, multijurisdictional advice on employment and labour matters. Protecting your business is our primary concern through tailor-made employment contracts, restrictive covenant and confidentiality agreements or other methods. Let our seasoned team help you formulate policies and procedures governing matters such as:
- Occupational health and safety
- Harassment
- Electronic monitoring
- Sickness and disability
- Progressive discipline
- Corporate compliance
- Workplace investigations
When dealing with organizational restructuring or change management, trust our comprehensive counsel on the human resource aspects and labor law implications.
If you face claims of retaliation, employee misconduct, bullying, harassment or discrimination, Dentons will be in your corner. We help you address even the most sensitive and high-profile claims and investigations. We can also guide you through whistleblower concerns, corporate governance issues, fiduciary duties of senior management and other challenges. We will represent you in matters involving employment standards, human rights, pay equity, workers’ compensation, collective agreements, wrongful dismissal and much more. In addition, we ensure maximum value for you by carefully and thoroughly exploring opportunities for out-of-court settlements.
Chambers Review
Dentons offers a well-regarded employment practice in Alberta with expertise based across both its Calgary and Edmonton offices. The team has experience in both litigation and advisory employment work, acting for clients in sectors such as oil and gas and education. It represents clients in disputes over unfair dismissals and terminations with cause. Team members have notable experience in employment law arbitrations.
Work Highlights
- A Dentons team represented BDO Canada in proceedings brought by a former employee concerning breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty and negligence.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Dentons team always provides practical advice in a timely way to address complex matters. The lawyers always respond quickly while still being thorough."
"Dentons has a strong team with technical skills and experience to be able to handle a high volume of complex matters."
"When complex issues arise in the space, the Dentons team has been able to communicate with management effectively and easily by taking complex issues and putting it into a more digestible format."
"The lawyers are excellent - they are responsive, provide reliable and practical advice, and are always able to refer us to someone at Dentons in another location if we need assistance elsewhere."
"The Dentons team has a keen understanding of the risks of our particular business and tailor the advice to our particular risks."
"Dentons team always provides practical advice in a timely way to address complex matters. The lawyers always respond quickly while still being thorough."
"Dentons has a strong team with technical skills and experience to be able to handle a high volume of complex matters."
"When complex issues arise in the space, the Dentons team has been able to communicate with management effectively and easily by taking complex issues and putting it into a more digestible format."
"The lawyers are excellent - they are responsive, provide reliable and practical advice, and are always able to refer us to someone at Dentons in another location if we need assistance elsewhere."
"The Dentons team has a keen understanding of the risks of our particular business and tailor the advice to our particular risks."
Notable Practitioners
April Kosten regularly advises on contentious employment matters, including litigation relating to dismissals and breaches of contract. She represents clients in a number of grievance arbitrations and disputes relating to employer status for contractors.
"April Kosten has spent years learning about our industry to provide us with insightful advice and tailored her advice to our specific risks."
"April is highly skilled, experienced and has a depth of technical knowledge."
Fausto Franceschi assists clients with employment law advice on workplace policies and diversity and inclusion initiatives. He also advises clients on employment agreements and represents them in arbitration hearings.
"Fausto is knowledgeable, practical and responsive.He understands business drivers and helps us find legally compliant solutions to our challenges that also consider our business strategies."
"Fausto Franceschi has worked with us for many years on various employment-related matters. We very much appreciate his expertise in this area and his business-oriented advice."
"I can always rely on Fausto Franceschi to give me great advice from not only a legal perspective but a business perspective also."