Employment Lawyers in Toronto
Workplace issues in Toronto can be stressful and disruptive, whether you’re an employee facing termination or an employer dealing with a workplace challenge. Our Toronto employment lawyers provide clear, practical legal advice to help you understand your rights, resolve disputes, and move forward confidently.
Serving employees and employers across Toronto and the GTA, we help you face terminations, severance, harassment, discrimination, contracts, investigations, and workplace conflict.
If you’ve been terminated, pressured to resign, or treated unfairly at work, our Toronto employment lawyers can help you protect your rights and pursue fair compensation.
We support employees with:
- We assess your termination offer, explain your entitlements, and negotiate for a better severance package when possible.
- If you were fired without proper notice, severance, or a valid reason, we help you challenge the termination and pursue the compensation you’re owed.
- If your employer fired you unfairly or made your job unbearable, we can help you pursue compensation.
- When an employer claims “just cause,” your career and severance rights are on the line. We defend you by assessing the allegations and fighting unfair for-cause terminations.
- Before you sign, understand restrictive covenants, compensation terms, termination clauses, and your rights.
- We can help with:
- human-rights tribunal applications
- discrimination claims based on protected grounds
- We take action when employees experience:
- workplace harassment or bullying
- poisoned work environments
- workplace retaliation
- Whether you’re dealing with unpaid wages, bonus disputes, employment standards issues, or workplace investigations, we can help.
- If your insurance company denies, delays, or terminates your LTD benefits, we step in to challenge the decision and help secure the financial support you need.
Toronto employers face constant legal risk. We provide proactive, practical advice to help employers make informed decisions and avoid costly disputes.
We help employers and HR professionals with:
- We guide employers through:
- without-cause terminations
- termination for cause
- mass terminations
- ESA compliance
- We assist employers in drafting, reviewing, and updating legally enforceable employment agreements that protect the organization by:
- Strengthening restrictive covenants
- Ensuring contracts comply with employment standards
- We help employers develop, review, and update workplace policies that support compliance and minimize risk, including:
- ESA-compliant handbooks and internal procedures.
- Harassment, discrimination, and workplace-violence policies
- Clear, progressive discipline policies
- We represent employers in:
- wrongful dismissal defence
- human rights defence
- constructive dismissal defence
- ESA & Ministry of Labour matters
- We help employers address complex labour-relations issues, including:
- Unionization & certification
- Collective bargaining
- Unfair labour practice defence
- Support for internal investigations:
- harassment & discrimination complaints
- misconduct allegations
- third-party neutral investigations
Why Choose Achkar Law as Your Toronto Workplace Lawyers?
Toronto is one of Canada’s most active employment law markets. You need workplace lawyers who understand both the law and the realities of Toronto workplaces.
- ✔ Clear, practical legal advice (not legal jargon)
- ✔ Fast response times (urgent situations welcomed)
- ✔ Balanced insight from representing both employees & employers
- ✔ Strategic, results-driven solutions
- ✔ Full representation before Ontario courts, tribunals & the Ministry of Labour
Whether you’re an employee or an employer, you deserve advice you can trust.
Employment Lawyer FAQs
Have questions about your workplace rights or responsibilities? Below are answers to some common questions our employment lawyers receive from individuals and organizations across Toronto and Ontario.
It’s best to speak with an employment lawyer as soon as a workplace issue arises, whether it involves termination, harassment, contract concerns, or policy disputes. Early advice can help protect your rights and prevent small issues from becoming major conflicts.
A labour lawyer typically works with unionized workplaces and collective agreements, while employment lawyers usually handle issues in non-unionized workplaces, such as terminations, contracts, and workplace disputes.
Workplace lawyers can help employers manage risk, update policies, handle employee complaints, and stay compliant with Ontario’s employment laws, reducing the chance of costly disputes or litigation.
Yes. An employment lawyer in Toronto can review your severance offer, explain your legal entitlements, and negotiate on your behalf to secure a fair outcome.
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Whether you’re an employee facing a workplace issue or an employer managing a difficult decision, you don’t have to face it alone.
Our Toronto employment lawyers are ready to help you understand your rights, make informed decisions, and move forward with confidence.
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Serving Clients Across Toronto, the GTA, and the Golden Horseshoe
We assist clients across Toronto, the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), the Golden Horseshoe, and beyond. Whether you are nearby or a short drive away, our team is ready to help.
We assist clients across Toronto, Mississauga, Brampton, Barrie, Kitchener-Waterloo, London, Vaughan, Richmond Hill, Markham, Oakville, Burlington, Milton, Hamilton, Durham Region, and Newmarket, as well as the Greater Toronto Area, the Golden Horseshoe, and beyond.
