66 Wellington St W, Suite 5300, TD Bank Twr, Toronto, ON
Year called to bar: 2007 (Ontario); 2006 (New York)
Kate McNeill-Keller is a partner in the firm’s Labour & Employment Group in Toronto. Kate provides strategic and practical advice to federally- and provincially-regulated employers in the private and public sectors in all aspects of labour, employment, and human rights law. Kate’s expertise includes statutory compliance (including employment standards, occupational health and safety, accessibility, human rights), workplace governance and design (including the drafting of employment contracts as well as workplace policy development, implementation, training and enforcement), human resources and labour relations advisory matters, collective bargaining, management of workplace investigations, workplace dispute resolution and litigation (including litigation before human rights tribunals, courts, labour boards, labour adjudicators and other dispute resolution bodies, as well as employment class actions). Kate acts as a workplace investigator on workplace harassment and discrimination matters and routinely advises clients on crisis management, providing a calm, thoughtful and pragmatic approach to reputationally sensitive matters.