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Associate Vacancy – Jewitt McLuckie & Associates Jewitt McLuckie & Associates is a long-standing Union-side labour law firm located in Canada’s capital with ten professional staff. We are ...

Pay Equity Obligations

In Peel (Regional Municipality) v CUPE, Local 966, (2023)354 L.A.C. (4th), the Union sought a preliminary order directing the Employer to disclose gender incumbency data.  The Employer had ...

Landmark HRTO Ruling

In L.N. v Ray Daniel Salon & Spa, 2024 HRTO 179 (CanLII), the Tribunal dealt with an application alleging discrimination in employment based on sex, sexual harassment, sexual solicitations or ...

Welcome to Mary Farag!

Jewitt McLuckie is pleased to welcome our newest Articling Student, Mary Farag, who has joined us for her 2023-2024 Articles.  Mary is trilingual (English, French and Arabic) and an Ottawa ...

Fighting to ensure union members receive their full entitlement to LTD Benefits

Randy Slepchik successfully represented CUPE 503 in an “LTD Offset” policy grievance filed against the City of Ottawa.  The Union grieved that the Employer was improperly counting time spent by ...

Jurisdiction win

Dina Mashayekhi defeated a preliminary motion brought by Carleton University when it tried to argue that Arbitrator Kevin Burkett had no jurisdiction to make a determination about a salary ...

Charter Challenge Victory!

Samantha Lamb and Dina Mashayekhi represented the Carleton University Academic Staff Association in Superior Court in a successful challenge to Bill 124, the Provincial Government’s wage ...

Lancaster House Webinar “The Latest in Worker’s Compensation”

On Thursday, October 26th John McLuckie will be one of the moderators for the Lancaster House Panel discussion addressing trends and changes to worker’s compensation law.

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Welcome, Samarah!

Jewitt McLuckie is proud to announce that University of Ottawa Law Student Samarah Arafat will be joining us for the 2021-2022 articling term. Samarah’s background includes research into ...