Kim Patenaude

Professional Activities and Organizations

Law Society of Upper Canada
Canadian Association of Labour Lawyers
County of Carleton Law Association
Association des juristes d’expression française de l’Ontario

Kim graduated from the French Program of the Common Law Section of the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Law. She is fluently bilingual and provides legal services in French and in English.

Kim practices in the areas of employment law, labour law, administrative law and human rights.

Kim provides practical advice to individual clients on issues such as wrongful dismissal, severance packages, WSIB/workers’ compensation, LTD benefits, discrimination, harassment and accommodation.

Kim has acted in matters before federal and provincial courts, boards, tribunals, and arbitrators on behalf of public and private sector unions and employees.

Cases Kim has worked on include:

Public Service Alliance of Canada v. Treasury Board, 2011 PSLRB 133
Public Service Alliance of Canada v. Canada Post Corporation,2010 FCA 56 (Appeal allowed by the Supreme Court of Canada: 2011 SCC 57)
Burden and Cyr v. Parks Canada Agency, 2010 PSLRB 55 (Application for judicial review before the Federal Court allowed: 2011 FC 251)
Canada (Department of Human Resources and Social Development) v. Cameron, 2009 FC 618
Lam v. Canada (Attorney General), 2009 FC 913 (Appeal allowed by Federal Court of Appeal: 2010 FCA 222
Canada Post Corporation v. Public Service Alliance of Canada, 2008 FC 223
Piché v. Canada (Attorney General), 2008 FC 114
Canada (Attorney General) v. Lâm, 2008 FC 874
Public Service Alliance of Canada v. Attorney General of Canada, 2007 CanLII 50603

Laplante v. Murray et al., 2007 PSLRB 73
Gendron v. Treasury Board (Department of Canadian Heritage), 2006 PSLRB 27
Morissette v. Treasury Board (Department of Justice), 2006 PSLRB 10
Morin v. Treasury Board (Department of Fisheries and Oceans), 2006 PSLRB 35
Charlebois v. Treasury Board (Department of Human Resources and Skills Development), 2006 PSLRB 19