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David Wong

Position
Partner | Co-leader, Labour, Employment & Human Rights
Career
David G. Wong is a Partner and co-leader of the Labour, Employment and Human Rights group, he is also the leader of the firm’s national Human Rights practice. His practice includes advice to and representation of organizations in all areas of human rights law as well as in the areas of labour and employment law.
David has appeared before all levels of court, including the Supreme Court of Canada.
David provides strategic advice and guidance to organizations in all matters relating to human rights and defends organizations before the BC Human Rights Tribunal and at all levels of Court on judicial reviews and appeals relating to human rights law. He also has experience defending organizations before the Canadian Human Rights Commission and Alberta Human Rights Commission.
David provides strategic advice and guidance to employers on issues involving unionized workers and union negotiations. He regularly represents employers before labour arbitrators and the Labour Relations Board. David has acted as lead negotiator in a number of rounds of collective bargaining for different employers and draws on that experience in the advice he provides.
David also regularly advises employers on issues involving non-unionized workers, from the duty to accommodate to terminations, including representation on wrongful dismissal claims. David takes a strategic and practical approach in providing guidance to employers and working towards a solution to whatever employment issue they are faced with.
Lawyer Rankings
Canada > Labour and employment
(Next Generation Partners)The ‘phenomenal’ team at Fasken is regularly instructed by aerospace, telecoms, financial services, energy and logistics sectors for its labour and employment expertise. Core areas of expertise include contract review, training, hirings and dismissals, labour board proceedings and class action defence. Leadership of the group is shared between Vancouver-based David Wong, Toronto-based Shane Todd and Montreal-based Emilie Paquin-Holmested, all of whom specialize in labour, employment and human rights law. Also noted are Montreal-based Stéphane Fillion, praised for his ‘great commercial sense’ and ‘pragmatic solutions’; Magali Cournoyer-Proulx (advisory employment work and litigation); and Deborah Furtado. In Toronto, Ontario managing partner Karen Sargeant; Alix Herber (‘practical and expedient advice’); Jackie VanDerMeulen (labour arbitrations, federal and provincial labour board matters); and counsel Brian Burkett
are additional names to note.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Dispute resolution: British Columbia
- Indigenous law
- Labour and employment
- Restructuring and insolvency
- Restructuring and insolvency
- Restructuring and insolvency
- International expertise
- Energy and natural resources > Mining
- Technology
- Telecoms
Firm Rankings
- AI
- Banking and finance
- Competition and antitrust
- Corporate and M&A
- Dispute resolution: Quebec
- Infrastructure projects
- Insurance
- International trade
- Transport > Other transport
- Pensions
- Public procurement
- Restructuring and insolvency
- Capital markets
- Dispute resolution: Alberta
- Dispute resolution: Ontario
- Environment
- Intellectual property
- International expertise
- Media and entertainment
- Energy and natural resources > Power
- Real estate
- Tax
- Cannabis
- Construction
- Energy and natural resources > Oil and gas