Matt Lalande Lawyer
Mississauga Employment Lawyer | Hamilton Employment Lawyer
The site is maintained by Matt Lalande. Matt Lalande is an employment and personal injury lawyer at Haber & Associates. Haber & Associates has several offices in Southern Ontario. For the past 37 years Haber & Associates have been representing both small businesses, large companies, corporations and employees with all types of employment related issues from hiring and firing to trial representation.
Matt devotes a large amount of his practice to employment law in the management setting. He represents both employers and employees in all aspects of employment law. He advises all levels of employers from small businesses to larger corporations, employment agencies, headhunting agencies, executives, managers, key employees and senior level employees with respect to all aspects of employment law. Matt also in involved in HR training. He advises many employers in the Mississauga and Halton regions of their obligations under the law of employment and Human Rights. Matt also represents many employers from Toronto to Hamilton.
Matt also represents employers and employers in all aspect of trial work. I you require your case referred for trial please do not hesitate to contact him. Matt also represents employers and employees in all aspects of administrative law, including labour relations and human rights.
MATT OFTEN HELPS EMPLOYEES WITH ISSUES SUCH AS:
• termination issues
• severance payment issues
• pension problems
• employment contract drafting reviews
• general harassment, sexual harassment issues and other workplace issues
• non competition, non-solicitation and non-disclosure agreement problems
• resignation and retirement issues
• injunction and restraint issues
• disability issues
• constructive dismissal issues
• Human Rights Issues (such as age, race, colour, ancestry, place of origin, criminal convictions, disability, sex, sexual harassment, sexual orientation, marital or family status, political beliefs or religion);
MATT OFTEN HELPS EMPLOYERS WITH ISSUES SUCH AS:
•establishing the existence of an employment relationship
• the proper assignment of employment contracts
• employee vs. independant contractors
• the basic elements of employment relationships
• the proper interpretation of employment contracts
• defining the importance of seasonal employees
• defining what frustrates an employment contract
• how to avoid undue influence and duress
• the importance of employer policy manuals and guidelines
• help you understand fraud and fraudulent misrepresentation
• non-competition agreements, non-solicitation agreements, non-disclosure agreements
• advice on damages for breach of restrictive covenants
• the right to terminate the employment relationship
• the proper resignation required by an employee
• the wrongful resignation of an employee
• your right to terminate an employment contract
• the repudiation of an employment contract
• the theory of reasonable notice
• how to calculate reasonable notice
• employment agreements
• how to properly create an employment relationship
• to hire by contract or not on contract?
• do you need a group policy benefit plan?
• executive employment contracts
• executive contract termination
• workplace health and safety issues
• employment litigation defence
• injunction and restraint issues
• Labour Board Representation
• Human Right Representation
Matt also works with many medical and dental clinics in the community with employment and staffing issues, as well as employment litigation and discipline hearings.
Matt Lalande also practices personal injury law, particularly with emphasis on serious car and motorcycle accidents, acquired brain injuries, spinal cord injuries, wrongful death, slip and falls, trip and falls, dog maulings and other personal injuries. Matt also focuses on representing clients in professional disciplinary issues, tribunal advocacy, and employment law (employer and employee). Matt has appeared before many levels of court and before many tribunal matters, including Small Claims, the Superior Court, the Divisional Court, the Ontario Court of Appeal, the Canadian Pension Plan Tribunal, the Pension Review Tribunal, and the Criminal Injury Compensation Board Tribunal (CICB). He has also represented clients in disciplinary tribunal hearings, Financial Services Commission mediatons.
Matt has also lectured and published material with the Ontario Trial Lawyers Association, has been published numerous time in the Canadian Litigator Magazine, the Lawyers Weekly, and various newspaper publications around southern Ontario. Matt has also authored for websites with respect to insured persons rights, spinal cord injuries and aquired brain injuries.
