Dayna Steinfeld has been awarded the 2022 Faculty of Law Alumni Emerging Leader Award by the University of Manitoba Faculty of Law.
The Emerging Leader Award honours a UM Law alumnus who has graduated within the last 10 years, has shown dedication and commitment to the legal profession, and has the qualities of integrity, professionalism, and leadership in their time practicing law. Read more about the award here.
On February 10, 2023, Amarkai Laryea presented as part of a panel at the Canadian Association of University Teachers Equity Conference. Amarkai presented as part of a panel, tiled “Yes, We Can Do This,” which addressed questions from conference participants on specific equity issues.
On January 19, 2023, Dayna Steinfeld will be moderating a panel at the Manitoba Bar Association 2023 Mid-Winter Conference, one of the marquee professional development events in Manitoba. Dayna will be moderating a panel discussion on “Pay Equity in the Legal Profession”, which will feature a diverse panel of speakers on the data (and lack thereof, due to resistance to the collection of data within the profession) to help legal professionals in Manitoba understand pay (in)equity in the legal profession.
Topics will include the findings and recommendations in the Canadian Bar Association’s report on pay equity in the profession, compensation studies of in-house counsel, relevant legal considerations, and the role that legal employers, law societies, governments and lawyers can play in closing the gender pay gap and achieving pay equity in the legal profession.
More information and registration are available here.
RavenLaw is proud to announce that Sarah-Claude L’Ecuyer has been awarded the 2022 Alison Dewar Scholarship in Women’s Equality, Labour and Human Rights Law.
Sarah-Claude is in her third year at the University of Ottawa and has demonstrated a deep commitment to the values that Alison held dear. She is the President and founder of the Social Justice Society, an active volunteer with the National Association of Women and the Law, and her article on the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society case will soon be published in the National Journal of Constitutional Law. Congratulations, Sarah-Claude!
On September 23, 2022, Morgan Rowe presented on the Labour and Employment Panel at the Kingston & 1000 Islands Legal Conference, hosted by Frotenac Law Association.
Morgan discussed the obligation on employees to cooperate in workplace accommodation processes, including addressing when employees may refuse accommodation options proposed by their employers.
In November 2022, James Cameron will be inducted as a Fellow of the College of Labour and Employment Lawyers.
The College was founded in the United States. It is an organization that promotes achievement, advancement and excellence in the practice of labour and employment law, as well as working to establish leadership, high standards of professionalism, and civility among labour and employment lawyers. The College has fellows in the United States and Canada.
James will be joining Sean McGee, who was inducted as a Fellow of the College in November 2020.
Dayna Steinfeld has recently joined the Executive of the newly established LEAF Winnipeg as Co-Chair and Strategic Initiatives Coordinator.
LEAF Winnipeg is a branch of LEAF, a national feminist organization that works towards ensuring the law guarantees substantive equality for all women, girls, trans, and non-binary people through litigation, law reform and public education using the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. LEAF focuses on litigation and law reform and public legal education to work to achieve substantive equality, and in its work as a branch, LEAF Winnipeg will actively advance these areas of LEAF’s work.
As Strategic Initiatives Coordinator, Dayna will work to organize and advance initiatives and advocacy in areas of importance to the local branch and to support the efforts of LEAF at a national level.
On October 24, Amarkai Laryea will be presenting at the Lancaster House Ottawa Labour Law Conference. He will be speaking on the panel “Bar None: Removing Systemic Barriers in Recruitment, Promotion and Retention.”
For more information or to register, visit the conference website.
In October 2022, Alison McEwen and Raphaëlle Laframboise-Carignan were in Rankin Inlet, Nunavut. They presented workshops in association with the Law Society of Nunavut and spoke on the topic of preventing workplace harassment.
On November 15, 2022, Dayna Steinfeld will be presenting on a panel at The 28th Annual Manitoba Labour Law Review on the topics of employee duties in the unionized workplace, racial discrimination and sexual harassment in the workplace, and privacy protections and limits for unionized workers. Dayna will be presenting on the panel from the perspective of union-side counsel.
The conference is organized and offered by the Centre for Labour-Management Development (Canada) Inc, an organization that works to keep unions and employers informed and up to date on the law and its impact on unionized workplaces in Canada. More information about the conference is available here.