Dana F. Hooker has been supporting employers achieve success in managing increasingly complex workplaces for almost two decades.

Dana’s practice covers the depth and breadth of employment and labour law in British Columbia. Dana also regularly supports employers whose operations extend beyond British Columbia and Canada, coordinating with DLA’s other Canadian, US and global employment and labour counsel to assist employers in achieving efficient, consistent, and lawful human capital management across jurisdictions.

Dana is comfortable in both the boardroom and the courtroom. Dana’s experience includes:

M&A/transaction support, including addressing notice and sucessorship issues in unionized workplaces
Defending litigation, including wrongful dismissal claims, complaints to the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal, British Columbia Director of Employment Standards, and WorkSafeBC, and applications to the British Columbia Labour Relations Board and Canada Industrial Relations Board
Advancing litigation in respect of employee torts or breaches, including breach of confidentaility, breach of restrictive covenants, and breach of fiduciary duty
Advising and leading collective bargaining
Day to day advising regarding human capital management, including incident or crisis triage and management, employee privacy and access to personal information, the duty to accommodate, occupational health and safety, and workers compensation
Preparing employment agreements, restrictive covenant agreements, policies and procedures
Conducting and managing workplace investigations
Advising on with or without cause terminations and preparing termination documentation

Dana has appeared before the Provincial Court and Supreme Court of British Columbia, the British Columbia Workers’ Compensation Board, the British Columbia Workers’ Compensation Appeal Tribunal, the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal, the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner, the British Columbia Labour Relations Board and the Canada Industrial Relations Board.

Dana is a prolific author and regularly speaks on employment and labour issues. She is a staunch advocate for diversity and inclusion in the legal profession.

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