Connor Allison is an employment and labour associate located in our Vancouver office. He maintains a general employment and labour law practice, advising a broad range of employers across British Columbia and Ontario on complex and day-to-day workplace matters. Connor strives to provide practical, strategic and solution-oriented advice tailored to employers’ business objectives and operational needs.
His experience includes advising clients on dismissals and discipline, human rights, health and safety, severance packages, workplaces policies and employment agreements, collective bargaining, preliminary union organizing activities, certification applications, strikes and workplace issues arising in unionized environments. Connor also advises on the employment aspects of corporate transactions.
Connor has represented clients in a variety of proceedings in British Columbia and Ontario, as well as at the federal level, including before the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, the Ontario Labour Relations Board, the Provincial Court and Supreme Court of British Columbia, the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal, the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner, the British Columbia Labour Relations Board, the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal, and the Canada Industrial Relations Board.
Prior to joining DLA Piper, Connor practised employment and labour law at a full-service law firm based in Toronto.