Nancy Shapiro
At The Employment Law Boutique, Nancy continues to service clients in relation to employment law issues outside the collective bargaining context.
Nancy graduated from Osgoode Hall Law School in 1996 and was called to the bar in 1998. Nancy has been recognized for many years by Lexpert, Best Lawyers, Canadian HR Reporter, and Chambers holding the Best Lawyers – Toronto title “Lawyer of Year 2023 – Labour and Employment” . For 2024, Nancy has once again been included in the elite list of the top 500 lawyers for business in Canada.
Nancy works with privately-held small to mid-sized businesses across Canada as well as executives, managers and other non-unionized employees experiencing workplace issues.
Nancy’s expertise in complex employment issues including complex litigation is unparalleled. Extensive experience working with both individuals and organizations before all levels of the courts, employment-related tribunals and boards as well as in mediation and arbitration brings the ability to sustinctly provide reliable and clear guidance to clients in a wide variety to situations. Nancy is a zealous advocate and dedicated to minimizing risk to her clients.
Nancy is a frequent speaker at conferences and industry events as well as an author of articles on a wide-variety of employment law topics.
No matter what your particular workplace or employment issue might be, Nancy can offer objective, expert advice and assistance in the development of strategies to deal with them effectively, expeditiously and cost consciously.
At The Employment Law Boutique we deliver Exceptional Service, Exceptional Results.
Feel free to contact us at any time to discuss, in complete confidence, the nature of any employment challenge you may be facing.
Hakim v. North Bay Regional Health Centre 2020 HRTO 798
Manastersky v. Royal Bank of Canada et al., 2018 ONSC 966 (CanLII)
Cain v. Pfizer, 2018 ONSC 297 (CanLII)
Mikhail Kushevsky v. Michael Tulman, 2014 ONSC 1734 (CanLII)
Qubti v. Reprodux Ltd., 2011 ONCA 651 (CanLII)
- Bad Faith Damages
- Constructive Dismissal and COVID-19
- The New Concerns of Workplace Privacy – Technology
- The Impact of Paquette v. TeraGo Networks Inc. on Payment of Bonuses and Other Issues of Compensation upon Termination
- “Is Termination for Cause the Capital Punishment for Dishonesty?”, by Nancy Shapiro, Employment and Labour Law Reporter: (2017), 27 E.L.L.R.
- Opportunities for Settlement and the Litigation Timeline
- Critical Issues in Workplace Investigations
- Challenging Claims of Privilege – Workplace Investigation Reports
- Just Cause…or Just Because?
- Extraordinary Damages in 6 Minutes – The Crash Course
- The Final (?) Word on Family Status and the Duty to Accommodate
- Evidence 101 – A Primer on Evidence Law
- The Scope and Limitations of Restrictive Covenants Since RBC and Shafron
- Termination of Employment: A Guide to Counsel for Employees
- The Evolving Area of Accommodation for Family Status: An Update
- Employment Law: The Essentials Made Simple!
- The Rising Significance of Cross-Border Employment: Issues, Difficulties and Solution
- Vorvis, Wallace and Keays – Is Wallace Dead?
- Mitigation – 6 Minute Employment Lawyer 2009
- Attendance Management: A Guide to Best Practices on Current Issues
- What is Just Cause in 2009?
- Common Employer – An Update on the Common Law Doctrine
- “Networking through community involvement and social activities”. Toronto, Ont. : Ontario Bar Association, 2008. Symposium: Clients, clients everywhere : essential tips for aspiring rainmakers.
- Protecting Yourself in the Contingency Fee Environment
- Managing Your Practice: Systems That Work
- Risk Management Communication with Clients and Documentation
- Danyluk Revisited
- “You have to show your client the money: This commercial litigator explores some underutilized remedies that will allow lawyers to better ensure that their clients collect” (2006) 26 Lawyers Wkly 4.
- Electronic Tendering – Welcome To The 21st Century
- “Procedural differences”. Toronto, Ont. : Continuing Legal Education, Ontario Bar Association, 2005. Symposium: Simplified procedure.
- “How long is too long? Obtaining dismissal for delay”. Toronto, Ont. : Ontario Bar Association, Continuing Legal Education, 2004. Symposium: Using the rules to your advantage : dispositions without trial (YLD).
- Structuring your pleadings” by Huggins, Arleen, and Shapiro, Nancy. Toronto, Ont. : Ontario Bar Association, Continuing Legal Education, 2003. Symposium: Dialogue with the bench : sharpening your advocacy skills.
Canadian Legal Lexpert (Employment Law)
Best Lawyers in Canada (Labour and Employment)
“2023 Lawyer of the Year” (Labour and Employment, Best Lawyers in Canada)
Chambers Canada (Employment and Labour, non-unionized employees)
Canadian HR Reporter’s 5- Star Employment Lawyers
Post City Magazine’s Top Lawyers in the GTA
2017-present
2022-present
2022-20232020-present
2022-present
2021- present
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Nancy’s Blogs
Temporary Layoff and Condonation – A Surprising Court of Appeal Decision
In a recent decision of the Ontario Court of Appeal, the court considered a case of pandemic layoff and whether 9 months after the layoff occurred, the employee could be said to have condoned the layoff. The Court of Appeal relied upon one of its earlier decisions in...
Workplace Harassment Reports are not Defamatory
The Ontario Court of Appeal has now issued a decision confirming the law with respect to workplace harassment investigation reports, wherein the investigator /author of the report, will not be liable for defamation for the findings in the report. In the case at bar,...
Failure to Communicate Policies to Employees Results in almost $2M in Damages
In a decision of the Honourable Mr. Justice Cavanagh released January 2, 2024, Boyer v. Callidus Capital Corp., [2024] O.J. No. 41, 2024 ONSC 20, the Court held that an employer had not clearly communicated the restrictive terms of its policies with respect to...