Andréane Giguère
Senior Associate
Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP
Biography
Andréane Giguère advises employers under provincial and federal jurisdiction in matters of individual and collective labour relations. She represents them before labour and employment tribunals, including the Administrative Labour Tribunal, the Canada Industrial Relations Board, grievance arbitrators, the Human Rights Tribunal and civil courts, including the Quebec Court of Appeal.
She is particularly interested in issues relating to interpreting and applying collective agreements, labour standards, the union certification process, unionized and non-unionized labour in the context of mergers, acquisitions and corporate restructuring, labour disputes, privacy, human rights and freedoms, and preventing harassment and discrimination in the workplace.
She is also a lecturer at Université Laval's Faculty of Law, where she teaches a course on freedom of association and collective representation in the workplace.
Professional experience
Collapse all- LL.B., Université Laval, 2013
- B.A., Université Laval 2010
- Quebec 2014
- Best Lawyers in Canada: Ones to Watch: Labour and Employment Law, 2024
- Dean’s List, Faculty of Law, Laval University (2012-2013)
- Dean’s list, Faculty of Social Sciences (2010)
"Les attentes relatives au rôle des experts et leurs conséquences sur l'appréciation de la preuve par la Commission des lésions professionnelles" (co-authored with Jean-Sébastien Cloutier), Développements récents en droit de la santé et sécurité au travail, Barreau du Québec – Service de la formation continue Éditions Yvon Blais, 2016.
- "Les décisions marquantes en 2022 : Retour sur la dernière année en droit de l'emploi et du travail," webinar, Norton Rose Fulbright Canada, Montreal, January 31, 2023.
- "Les droits et obligations de l'employeur : du dépôt d'une requête en accréditation syndicale à la conclusion d'une première convention collective," webinar, Conseil du patronat du Québec, November 9, 2022.
- "La protection des renseignements personnels dans le contexte d'enquêtes," presentation to the Association Professionnelle des Enquêteurs Privés du Québec (APEPQ), Montreal, September 9, 2022.
- "Managing hybrid work: are you ready for a return to the full or partial office?" webinar, Conseil du patronat du Québec, September 17, 2021.
- "Retrospective of landmark decisions in labour and employment law 2019," Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP conference, Montreal, 2020.
- "Ten important decisions and developments in employment and labour law in 2016," Norton Rose Fulbright Canada seminar, Montreal, February 23, 2017.
- Lecturer, Laval University's Law Faculty, Liberté syndicale et représentation collective au travail
- Association du jeune Barreau de Québec
- Board of directors of APE Services d'aide à l'emploi (March 2016 – September 2020)