Chanelle Wong
Partner
Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP
Related services and key industries
Biography
Chanelle Wong advises and represents employers on a wide range of labour, employment, human rights, privacy, occupational health and safety, and workers’ compensation issues, in both unionized and non-unionized environments. She advises both provincially regulated and federally regulated employers, and employers in both the private sector and public sectors.
Chanelle provides practical and strategic advice to employers at all stages of the employment relationship, from hiring to dismissal. She regularly advises on compliance with statutory requirements that impact the workplace and best practices for employers. She prepares and advises on employment agreements, confidentiality agreements, non-competition and non-solicitation agreements, severance agreements, as well as company policies and procedures, including respectful workplace policies, privacy policies, and drug and alcohol policies.
Chanelle has acted for clients on all aspects of workplace law, including wrongful dismissal claims, disability issues, discrimination claims, bullying and harassment claims, union grievances, certification applications, and access to information requests. She regularly represents clients at mediations, arbitrations, and other legal proceedings, and has assisted with workplace-related investigations. Chanelle has represented clients before the Provincial and Supreme courts of BC, the BC Labour Relations Board, the BC Employment Standards Branch, and the BC Human Rights Tribunal, and before various labour arbitrators.
Professional experience
Collapse allJ.D., Queen's University, 2014
B.A., University of British Columbia, 2010
- British Columbia 2015
- Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in Canada: Labour and Employment Law, 2025
- Queen’s Law Dean’s Honour List, 2013-14
- Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP Prize in Torts, Queen’s University
- Reuben Wells Leonard Prize in Taxation, Queen’s University
- "The Broad Scope of Religious Accommodation: Non-Traditional Religions, Secularism, and the Employer’s Duty to Accommodate" (co-author: Marino Sveinson), Canadian Association of Counsel to Employers 12th Annual Conference, September 2015.
- "Case Law Update on the Provision of Services under Section 8" (co-author: Carolyn M. MacEachern), Continuing Legal Education of British Columbia Human Rights Law Conference, November 2017.
- CBA BC Employment Law Section Executive - Vice chair, Legislative Liaison, and Young Lawyer Liaison
News
2024 global partner class features 49 lawyers across 10 practices
December 12, 2023
Insights
2024 Employment and labour trends in British Columbia
Webinar | June 07, 2024
New workers compensation statutory duties coming in 2024
Publication | September 27, 2023
2023 Employment and labour trends in British Columbia
Webinar | June 02, 2023