Labour and Employment

Partner

Clifford provides strategic advice and training to a wide range of private and public sector employers on diverse labour relations and employment law related issues. This includes:

collective bargaining and collective agreements union-organizing campaigns unfair labour practices strikes and picketing human rights discipline and discharge wrongful dismissal employment standards human resources policies and procedures

Clifford appears regularly as employer counsel in grievance and interest arbitrations and before administrative tribunals including the Ontario Labour Relations Board and the Human Rights Tribunal.

Clifford has worked on a number of wage and hour and “misclassification” class actions. He also acts as counsel to National Hockey League clubs in salary arbitration disputes with their players.

Member, American Bar Association Member, Canadian Bar Association (labour law section) Member, Law Society of Alberta Member, Canadian Association of Counsel to Employers Member, Sports Lawyers Association

LLB, University of Alberta, 1987 BA, McGill University, 1984 Bar Admission Ontario, 1991 Alberta, 1988