Eveline Poirier

Eveline Poirier is a partner in the Employment & Labour Group. She routinely provides clients with strategic advice to reduce risks for their businesses and resolve disputes. She possesses a vast experience in conducting litigation on a broad range of employment and labour matters before both provincial and federal arbitrators, boards, tribunals, and courts. Her expertise includes all aspects of individual and collective labour relations, dismissal cases, psychological harassment complaints, the application of non-competition and other restrictive clauses in employment contracts, employee incentive programs, pension plan issues, occupational health and safety matters, and human rights complaints.

Eveline’s expertise also includes legal advices related to Canadian business immigration. Her services include the preparation of documentation for temporary work permits as well as providing services with respect to permanent residence applications for foreign executives as well as their families.

Eveline regularly assists employers with the negotiation of executive employment contracts and incentive plans. In addition to drafting employment contracts, employee policies, codes of ethics, confidentiality agreements, accommodation agreements, service and consulting contracts and secondment agreements, she advises on conditions of employment, individual rights and freedoms in the workplace, pay equity, privacy, occupational health and safety, employment insurance, use of the French language, and other legal and contractual obligations.

Eveline acts as a specialist advisor on the employment aspects of various commercial transactions and provides employers with assistance on employment issues related to corporate reorganization, restructuring and outsourcing.

Eveline co-authored the book Executives and Managers - Their Rights and Duties, and has given seminars on a wide variety of employment law matters. She also gives different training sessions for several clients.