JEFFREY ANDREW 

 

Tel: 416 -964-5507
Email: jandrew@cavalluzzo.com
Call to the Bar: 1994
Education
: LLB 1992 University of Ottawa

Jeff advises Unions on an ongoing basis and practises before the Ontario Labour Relations Board, the courts, and at arbitration hearings. He also practises in the fields of privacy, workers compensation and wrongful dismissal. Jeff is the current Chair of the Labour and Employment Law Section of the Ontario Bar Association.

Jeff has extensive experience dealing with the accommodation of the disabled in the workplace. He has been counsel in a number of leading cases in the field of workplace drug and alcohol testing. As pro bono counsel for the complainant and the intervenor, Canadian Civil Liberties Association, Jeff won the Entrop v. Imperial Oil decision which recognized alcoholism and other forms of substance abuse as a handicap under Ontario's Human Rights Code and held that random workplace drug testing may be discriminatory. Jeff was also counsel for the International Union of Operating Engineers in the Sarnia Cranes case where the Ontario Labour Relations Board struck down the employer’s alcohol and drug testing policy.

Jeff has authored a number of articles on labour relations matters, privacy and drug testing, and assists George Adams on an ongoing basis with the publication of the leading text Canadian Labour Law. As well, Jeff’s interest in law reform and public policy development led to his appointment as a counsel for George Adams in the public consultation he conducted for the Ontario Government concerning Ontario’s Special Investigations Unit which investigates police action resulting in death or serious injury.

Jeff brings to the firm his experience as a journalist and an active member of the Southern Ontario Newspaper Guild. In that role he was involved in organizing, negotiations, acting as a steward and executive officer as well as being a Trade Union Delegate to the Maquiladora Trade Zone, Mexico and Nicaragua.

 

 

CAVALLUZZO HAYES SHILTON McINTYRE & CORNISH LLP
Barristers & Solicitors
474 Bathurst Street, Suite 300
Toronto, Ontario,  M5T 2S6
Ph: (416) 964-1115 Fax: (416) 964-5895

Email: contactus@cavalluzzo.com

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