On September 26, 2022, Morgan Rowe spoke to the University of Ottawa – Faculty of Common Law’s “Human Rights” class, as part of the class on emerging topics in human rights. Her presentation focused on topics related to sexual orientation, asexuality, and the regulation of personal relationships.
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.
During the week of June 20, 2022, RavenLaw presented as part of multiple panels during the Canadian Association of Labour Lawyers’ annual conference.
On June 24, 2022, Sean McGee presented as part of a panel exploring the opportunities and challenges of remote work post-COVID. In the afternoon, Wassim Garzouzi moderated a panel with two guest speakers from the United States, which discussed unionizing workplaces like Amazon and the need to reform labour laws.
On June 25, 2022, Amarkai Laryea presented on a panel addressing the impacts that current grievance arbitration models have on racialized workers and ways to practice labour law in an actively anti-racist manner.
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