Tania Da Silva

Tania Da Silva

Partner
About

Tania Da Silva practises in the area of employment law, commercial litigation and class actions, and compliance with French language, consumer protection and privacy requirements.

Tania has a general management-side employment law practice. She advises employers ‎operating in Quebec on all manner of workplace issues, including advising on employment ‎standards and human rights at the Quebec provincial level and ‎at the federal level; conducting ‎and advising on workplace investigations; pay equity requirements and compliance; workplace ‎health and safety; attendance management and the duty to accommodate; drafting and reviewing ‎employment contracts, employment policy manuals, and codes of conduct; hiring, progressive ‎discipline and termination of employees; training of employees on company policies, anti-‎harassment and discrimination, and occupational ‎health and safety; complying with French ‎language requirements and assistance ‎with handling Office de la langue française investigations ‎and/or complaints.‎ Tania is frequently called upon to lead the employment work in mergers and ‎acquisitions transactions, by coordinating and conducting employment due diligence, providing ‎insight and feedback on purchase and sale agreements, as well as executive employment ‎agreements and other human resources matters

Tania has defended clients in wrongful dismissal and prohibited practices claims before the ‎Tribunal Administratif du Travail and in mediations and conciliations at the Commission des ‎normes de l'équité de la santé et de la sécurité du travail. She has also counselled clients with ‎enforcement of restrictive covenants through litigation.‎

In addition to the litigation aspects of her Employment practice listed above, Tania also has a ‎general commercial litigation practice, which consists of representing clients in a wide range of ‎civil suits.‎ She has acted in litigation involving manufacturer’s liability, enforcing of ‎securities, claims for reasonable notice of termination and contractual ‎disputes. She also has a ‎strong class action practice acting exclusively as defence counsel, ‎specifically in competition law ‎private actions, Civil Code of Québec and Consumer Protection Act actions. ‎Tania ‎has appeared ‎before the Court of Québec, the Superior Court of Québec and the Court of Appeal ‎of ‎Québec.‎

Tania also advises on Quebec privacy compliance issues, advises employers on ‎compliance with their privacy obligations, drafts and reviews employee privacy policies and ‎consents, as well as website privacy policies. She conducts compliance gap analyses ‎of data collection practices to ensure their compliance with Quebec’s revamped privacy ‎legislation, as well as counseling the Firm’s clients on compliance with Quebec’s French language ‎requirements under the Charter of the French Language and the Consumer Protection Act. She routinely drafts and reviews website Terms of Use, End User License Agreements, Terms ‎of Sale, Warranties and e-commerce flows for compliance with Quebec’s Consumer Protection ‎Act, in order to help launch clients’ online presence in Quebec, or make existing e-commerce ‎platforms Quebec-compliant.‎ 

Bar admissionsQuebec, 2009

EXPERIENCE

  • Quebec counsel in defence of proposed class actions involving alleged anticompetitive conduct in ‎respect of the supply of transport contracts for long-haul passenger flights, Automobile Parts, DRAM, ‎SRAM, ODD, Capacitors, Lithium Ion Batteries, Ocean Shipping Services and Smart Card Chips;‎
  • Quebec counsel in defence of proposed class actions involving alleged breach of Quebec’s Consumer ‎Protection Act by online ticket resale marketplaces;‎
  • Quebec counsel in defence of proposed class action asserting personal injury claims stemming from ‎‎alleged ‎opioid abuse‎;‎
  • Quebec counsel in defence of proposed class action asserting allegations with ‎respect to product ‎defects in certain vehicles‎;‎
  • Quebec counsel in defence of proposed class action asserting diesel emissions and fuel efficiency ‎misrepresentations‎;‎
  • Quebec employment counsel to multinational companies operating in a variety of industries, including ‎pharmaceutical, sporting goods, technology/video game, medical products, lighting, electronics, mining, ‎automotive parts and manufacturing industries.‎
Languages
  • English
  • French
  • Portuguese
Education
  • LL.L, University of Ottawa, 2008
  • LL.B., University of Ottawa, 2007
  • B.Sc.Soc., Concentration in criminology, University of Ottawa, 2004

Publications

Seminars

  • Speaker, Returning to the workplace after the COVID-19 pandemic, Webinar, May 2020
  • Speaker, 2019 DLA Piper (Canada) LLP Canadian Employment and Labour Law Conference (Toronto)
  • Speaker, 2017 DLA Piper (Canada) LLP Canadian Employment and Labour Law Conference (Toronto)
  • Speaker, 2015 DLA Piper (Canada) LLP Canadian Employment and Labour Law Conference (Montréal)
  • Speaker, 2012 DLA Piper (Canada) LLP Canadian Employment and Labour Law Conference (Montréal)

Media Mentions

  • Quoted, "How does Bill 96 impact Quebec employers?" Canadian HRReporter, June 2, 2022

Memberships And Affiliations

  • Member of the Young Bar Association of Montréal

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