Gilles Rancourt is a partner at Norton Rose Fulbright. He has vast experience in many areas of employment and labour law, including grievance arbitration, certification, collective agreement decrees, collective bargaining, employment standards, individual contracts of employment, human rights and freedoms, and restrictive covenants relating to employment. He successfully argued a case on the latter topic before the Supreme Court of Canada. He frequently pleads before administrative tribunals with jurisdiction in labour law matters and before the civil courts, including the Quebec Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court of Canada. He represents government authorities in public sector collective agreement negotiations and acts as a spokesperson in collective bargaining on behalf of private institutional clients. He has acquired extensive experience in complex issues relating to certification and the defence of psychological harassment mandates. He is a frequent guest speaker on a variety of issues pertaining to employment law and human resource management and is a special contributor to the book Comment gérer un employé difficile, published by Les Éditions Transcontinental. He has taught collective bargaining and labour law at the Quebec bar admission course for several years.