Catherine Pronovost

Catherine Pronovost practises employment and labour law, focusing primarily on occupational health and safety and labour relations. Such duality gives her an interesting edge, as often health and safety matters have an impact on labour relations, and vice versa. She has a practical approach to workplace challenges and commits to finding simple and efficient solutions, keeping in mind her clients' particular approach and goals with respect to management of human resources. Catherine acts frequently in litigation matters for clients in both unionized and non-unionized environments, particularly regarding the management of employment injury claims, health and safety prevention mechanisms, interpretation of collective agreements, disciplinary management, and the application of labour standards. In addition to advising clients of the firm on human resources management and labour law matters generally, she provides in-house training on the following topics: employer's duty to accommodate, psychological harassment, the hiring process, social media, managing employee leaves, employment terminations, workplace health and safety, and management of fitness for duty.