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Gowling WLG
1600 – 1 FIRST CANADIAN PLACE
100 KING STREET WEST
TORONTO, ONTARIO, M5X 1G5
Canada

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.

Lawyer Rankings

Canada > Business immigration

The business immigration offering at Gowling WLG encompasses applications for corporate employee transfers, temporary work permits, permanent residency and citizenship, as well as the development of immigration and international mobility policies for multinationals and startups alike. Leadership of the department is shared between Kitchener-based Bill MacGregor, who has focused his practice exclusively on corporate and business immigration mandates; and Toronto-based Andrew Bratt. Krista Schofer heads up the firm’s western Canadian immigration practice and is well-versed in assisting corporate clients with hiring foreign nationals in Canada and the United States.

Canada > Labour and employment

The practice group at Gowling WLG regularly assists financial services, manufacturing, tech, life sciences, retail and public sector clients with a range of advisory and contentious labour and employment matters. Leadership is shared between Toronto-based Andrew BrattMaxwell Brunette, who splits his time between Calgary and Vancouver, and Montreal-based Josée Gervais. Bettina Burgess of the Kitchener office is an additional key contact.