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Robert Dupont

Robert Dupont

Partner
  • Montreal 514 846.2314
     
rdupont@heenan.ca
 
 
    

Robert Dupont’s practice encompasses all aspects of labour, employment, human rights and administrative law. As a member of our Labour and Employment Law group, he brings to the table extensive experience in labour relations, including privacy, pay equity and pension plan matters. He also advises a large number of companies on issues related to transborder data flows of personal employee information, collective bargaining and corporate restructuring.

Mr. Dupont provides representation before various arbitration boards and other decision-making bodies. He has appeared before administrative tribunals specialized in labour and employment matters. He has also appeared before civil courts, including the Court of Appeal of Québec and the Supreme Court of Canada in leading labour law and human rights cases in Canada.

Mr. Dupont taught jurisprudence in labour arbitration at Université de Montréal from 1984 through 1988. He also taught labour and administrative law at the professional training school of the Barreau du Québec from 1990 to 2005 and employment law at McGill University from 1997 to 2000. He is frequently invited to speak at labour and employment conferences. Furthermore, Mr. Dupont sits on the Board of Directors of the IRCM Foundation.

Mr. Dupont is recognized as one of Canada’s leading lawyers in the area of Labour and Employment Law in the 2011, 2012 and 2013 editions of the Best Lawyers in Canada (Woodward/White). Recognized for his professional ethics, he is repeatedly recommended by his peers according to the annual survey conducted by Lexpert. Mr. Dupont has been recognized in the 2012 Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory in labour relations.

Mr. Dupont joined the firm in 1981 and has been a partner since 1990. He sat on the firm’s National Management Committee from 2000 to 2004 as well as on the Partnership Admission Committee from 1998 to 2005, where he served as Chair from 2001 to 2005. He has been a member of the firm's Executive Committee since 2009.

Before joining Heenan Blaikie, Mr. Dupont worked for Canadair Limited for three years in both the Human Resources and Labour Relations departments.

Education

  • LL.M., Université de Montréal, 1986
  • LL.B., Université de Montréal, 1982
  • B.A., Université de Montréal, 1979

Professional Affiliations

  • Barreau du Québec
  • Canadian Bar Association
  • Ordre des conseillers en ressources humaines et en relations industrielles agréés du Québec

Purchasing a cable and Internet installation, repair and connection service.

Representation of a Quebec-based company with thousands of employees in a complaint alleging sex discrimination in employment, presented by three unions to the Commission des droits de la personne et des droits de la jeunesse (Human and Youth Rights Commission).

Representing two insurers in proceedings launched by a number of unions before the Quebec Superior Court to challenge the insurers’ pay equity programmes.

Counsel on labour and employment law questions to a telecommunications company in the acquisition of part of the activities of another telecommunications company.

Counsel to a high tech manufacturing company with over 2,000 employees in the renewal of the employees’ collective agreement. The employees were represented by a Canadian union affiliated with the Fédération des travailleurs du Québec.

Acting on behalf of four employers’ associations in contesting the validity of a Quebec regulation extending the application of An Act respecting labour relations, vocational training and manpower management in the construction industry to operations involving production machinery.

Seminars & Conferences

Canadian Legal Lexpert® Directory
(Labour Relations - 2012)

The Best Lawyers in Canada
(Labour and Employment Law - 2013)

 

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