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Mr Andrew Bratt

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Position

Partner
National Practice Group Leader – Employment, Labour & Equalities

Career

Andrew Bratt is a partner in Gowling WLG’s Toronto office and the national practice group leader for the Employment, Labour & Equalities practice.

Andrew’s practice focuses on all aspects of employment law. He has appeared before several administrative tribunals, courts, arbitrators and mediators, representing employers in employment-related litigation, human rights proceedings, employment standards claims, and workers’ compensation proceedings.

In his practice, Andrew provides clients with advice on recruitment and hiring, employment agreements, restrictive covenants, employment standards, workplace policies, disability management, accommodation, workforce reductions, discipline, terminations, unjust dismissal, wrongful dismissal and disability benefits related claims. Andrew is also regularly called upon to advise corporate clients with respect to labour and employment issues arising out of various types of corporate transactions.

Having spent six months seconded to the legal department of one of Canada’s largest retailers, Andrew appreciates the unique dynamic between the business unit and legal department of a large organization, and understands the importance of acting as a strategic partner to his clients, not simply as a legal service provider.

Andrew speaks and writes frequently on a broad range of employment law topics and regularly guest lectures at the law faculties at Queen’s University, the University of Western Ontario and the University of Toronto.

Andrew is also a Certified Legal Project Manager.

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Canada > Business immigration

Working closely with the firm’s employment and labour departments, the team at Gowling WLG demonstrates strength assisting clients with temporary work permit applications, permanent residence applications, corporate employee transfer applications and developing immigration and international mobility policies for corporations and startups. Practice co-head Bill MacGregor focuses exclusively on corporate and business immigration, and regularly assists employers with work permits, international transfers and hires. Andrew Bratt (labour and employment, corporate transactions) completes the leadership team. Krista Schofer leads the western Canadian immigration practice and has extensive experience advising on immigration compliance and facilitating the application processes for temporary resident visas, permanent residency and citizenship.

Canada > Labour and employment

The ‘passionate, accurate, confident and experienced’ group at Gowling WLG is routinely retained by corporations in diverse sectors seeking assistance with labour and employment matters. The practice is jointly led by a trio of partners, comprising: the ‘very knowledgeable’ Toronto-based national lead Andrew Bratt; Maxwell Brunette, who splits his time between Calgary and Vancouver and focuses on labour relations matters and employment standards disputes; and Josée Gervais, who leads from the Montreal office and handles the gamut of employment law matters. Bettina Burgess is the key contact at the Kitchener office.

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