Services

Employers today must also implement complex policies to suit an ever more sophisticated workplace, while ensuring compliance with constantly evolving laws, often in the context of global and multijurisdictional operations.

In this context, the Employment and Labour group at Deloitte Legal Canada acts as a trusted advisor in empowering clients to achieve their business goals. We provide businesses with the advice they need to make informed decisions, support them to ensure compliance with a multitude of legal and regulatory requirements, and assist them in all aspects of risk management and conflict resolution, including alternative dispute resolution mechanisms as well as litigation when it is in the best interests of our clients.

Our group provides employers with business-oriented expert and practical advice on all facets of the employment relationship, in unionized and non-unionized settings, at both the provincial and federal level. 

Members of the Deloitte Legal Employment and Labour group have access to the Global Employer Services team at Deloitte LLP and may engage them to assist in delivering customized solutions on certain cross-jurisdictional matters. This collaborative approach provides clients with advice in a timely and efficient manner by targeting the appropriate resources and connecting with experienced professionals to provide results and exceed expectations.  

Our expertise spans across all areas of employment and labour law, including the following:

• Administrative law
• Advising employers on multi-jurisdictional issues
• Alcohol and substance abuse
• Attendance management
• Administrative and civil litigation
• Collective bargaining
• Compensation and benefit plans
• Corporate restructuring
• Employee screening and hiring
• Employment contracts
• Employment standards compliance and litigation
• Executive employment agreements and executive compensation
• French language in the workplace
• Grievance arbitration
• Human rights and accommodation
• Judicial review proceedings
• Mediation and alternative dispute resolution
• Occupational health and safety
• Outsourcing
• Pay equity
• Pension and benefits
• Policy development and implementation
• Privacy and personal information protection
• Purchase or sale of a business or assets of a business
• Psychological and sexual harassment complaint management, investigation and litigation
• Recruitment policies
• Responding to union drives
• Restrictive covenants (non-competition, non-solicitation, etc.):
  • Defending against injunctions
  • Drafting restrictive covenants agreements
  • Enforcement of restrictive covenants through injunctions and other forms of relief
• Strike or lock-out preparation and business continuity planning
• Terminations and redundancies
  • Designing creative termination packages
  • Mass terminations for business closures or restructuring
  • Pre-termination advice
  • Termination letters and releases
  • Wrongful and constructive dismissal litigation
• Workers’ compensation (Industrial Accidents and Occupational Diseases)
• Workplace audits
• Workplace investigations

Our tax advisory services include providing tax advice and opinions with respect to the following:

• Cross-border and multinational transactions, mergers, acquisitions and divestitures.
• Corporate reorganizations and restructurings.
• Taxation of private corporations and their shareholders, including succession planning.
• Wealth, estate and business planning for high-net-worth individuals.
• Inbound and outbound investments, including structuring and financing of Canadian and foreign investments and businesses, and interpreting tax treaties.
• Immigration and emigration tax planning including advice on immigration trusts.
• Charities and non-profit organizations.
• Personal taxation, including trusts and estates.
• Tax planning for First Nations

By working together with our tax colleagues across Canada, as well as through our affiliation with the Deloitte Legal global network, our Corporate and Commercial practice is in a position to service a wide range of business client needs such as:

• Establishment of corporations, general partnerships, limited partnerships, limited liability partnerships, ULCs
• Corporate documentation for reorganizations and restructurings
• Registered and records office; annual corporate filings (BC, Alberta, Ontario)
• Extra-provincial registrations
• Corporate legal opinions
• Restorations, continuations, amalgamations, windings-up and dissolutions
• Commercial agreements
• Transfer pricing documentation
• Contract review and interpretations
• Real estate transfers (BC)
• Due diligence (limited)

Our tax litigation and controversy services include advice and representation with respect to the following:

• Management of large and complex tax audits and dealing with audit queries and formal requirements to provide information and documents.
• Administrative appeals to tax authorities and litigation before the courts, including:
  • Preparation of Notices of Objection to dispute tax assessments or reassessments.
  • Appeals to the Tax Court of Canada, Federal Court of Appeal, provincial courts and the Supreme Court of Canada.
    Applications for judicial review of administrative decisions or omissions of the tax authorities.
  • Obtaining rectification orders from the provincial courts.
• Making voluntary disclosures to correct deficiencies in non-compliance
• Defending criminal tax prosecutions.
• Advising on tax risks related to transactions, including risks relating to the General Anti Avoidance Rules (GAAR).