John D. R. Craig John Craig is a partner who practises exclusively in the area of labour, employment and pensions law. He provides proactive strategic advice to employers, and represents them in collective bargaining and before arbitrators, labour relations boards, human rights tribunals, and the courts.
As a member of the firm’s International Labour Law practice group, John has regularly represented Canadian employers at meetings of the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the Inter-American Conference of Ministers of Labour (IACML). In 2009, he represented Canadian employers at the Fifth Summit of the Americas in Port of Spain, Trinidad and at the Organization of American States General Assembly in Lima, Peru. John also advises Canadian, foreign and multinational employers on a full range of cross-border and international labour matters. He assists clients on labour aspects of corporate social responsibility, including drafting and implementing workplace codes of conduct applicable to overseas and supply chain operations, and he manages projects for multinational clients involving multi-jurisdictional reviews of human resource policies.
John began his career as a law clerk to Chief Justice Antonio Lamer and Justice Charles Gonthier of the Supreme Court of Canada, in 1994. He holds masters and doctoral degrees in comparative and international labour law from the University of Oxford and is an Assistant Professor with the University of Western Ontario Faculty of Law, where he has been teaching since 1999.
John is the author of Privacy and Employment Law (Hart Publishing, 1999), a book that examines the transposition of human rights law into the workplace, and the co-editor of Globalization and the Future of Labour Law (Cambridge University Press, 2006), a collection of essays that addresses the implications of globalization on national and international labour laws. He has published numerous articles related to international labour law in journals such as the Canadian Labour & Employment Law Journal, the Comparative Labour Law & Policy Journal, the Industrial Law Journal, and the European Human Rights Law Review. He has also spoken at numerous academic and practice-focused conferences on subjects related to international labour law, anti-discrimination, privacy, and constitutional law.
John is recognized as a leader in Management Labour and Employment Law in Canada in Who's Who Legal 2010.
John joined Heenan Blaikie in 2001 after first practising with another prominent national law firm. Education
DPhil, University of Oxford, 1999 B.C.L., University of Oxford, 1994 LL.B., Dalhousie University, 1993 B.A. (Honours), University of Waterloo, 1990 Professional Affiliations
Ontario Bar Association The Canadian Association of Law Teachers The Law Society of Upper Canada (Ontario)
Publications and Conferences Globalization and the Future of Labour Law, Co-editor, Cambridge University Press, 2006 Corporate Social Responsibility: The Privatization of International Labour Law, presented at Canadian Council on International Law Annual Conference, October 2004 Freedom of Expression and Whistleblowing in the workplace: The Management Perspective, [2003] Labour Arbitration Yearbook Wallace Unleashed: Discrimination as a Basis for Damage Awards in Wrongful Dismissal Cases, presented at OBA Labour & Employment Conference, May 2003 Canada and the ILO: Freedom of Association since 1982 (2003), 10 Canadian Labour and Employment Law Journal 231 The Canadian Airline Industry Since 2000: Air Canada's Challenges and Successes, presented at the Railway & Airline Labor Law Midwinter Committee Meeting of the American Bar Association, March 2003 A "New Trilogy" or the Same Old Story? (2003), 10 Canadian Labour and Employment Law Journal 59 The Aftermath of September 11: Canada's Response to Securing North America (Spring 2002) Outside Counsel (American Corporate Counsel Association's quarterly newsletter) Entrop v. Imperial Oil Ltd.: Employment Drug and Alcohol Testing is Put to the Test (2002), 9 Canadian Labour and Employment Law Journal 141 Labour Law and the Challenges of Globalization, prepared for the Canadian Employers Council, October 2001 Dealing With Dissenting "Out of the Money Option Holders Under the Compulsory Acquisition Procedure in Part XVII, [2000] Corporate Litigation. Privacy and Employment Law, Hart Publishing, 1999 Censorship Behind Bars: Freedom of Expression and Prisoner Correspondence (1998), 16 Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice 3 Privacy and Free Speech in Germany and Canada: Lessons for an English Privacy Tort, [1998] 2 European Human Rights Law Review 162 The Right to Privacy in the Public Workplace: Should the Private Sector be Concerned? (1998), 27 Industrial Law Journal 49 Privacy in the Workplace and the Impact of European Convention Incorporation on United Kingdom Labour Law (1998), 19 Comparative Labour Law Journal 373 Invasion of Privacy and Charter Values: The Common Law Tort Awakens (1997), 42 McGill Law Journal 355 Guilty Plea Revocation, Constitutional Waiver, and the Charter: "A Guilty Plea is Not a Trap" (1997), 20 Dalhousie Law Journal 161 Affirmative Action in Question: A Coherent Theory for Section 15(2) (1997), 4 Review of Constitutional Studies 80 The Alibi Exception to the Right to Silence (1996), 39 The Criminal Law Quarterly 227
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