Glen Walter Chochla

Glen Chochla has worked for over 30 years on behalf of both unions and non-union employees across the country in both French and English. His practice encompasses labour, employment and human rights law. He has built a reputation for advocating relentlessly to advance the human rights claims of women and disabled workers, commencing in 1993 when he won reinstatement and back pay for an injured health care worker fired because of her disability. [1] He has represented countless men and women in their struggle to become unionized and at the bargaining table in negotiations for first collective agreements. In 1997, he won an important labour board victory for female workers in their successful fight for a first contract at a private medical clinic [2] – one of the first collective agreements of its kind in Canada. Mr. Chochla has represented almost every occupation across Canada, from firefighters in Saskatchewan [3] and construction workers in Ontario [ 4 [a] [b] [c] ] to federal food inspection workers in Québec [5] as well as workers at the Mus é e des beaux-arts du Canada in Ottawa [6] and the Commission des champs de bataille nationaux in Québec City. [7] He has also represented provincial Crown attorneys in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. In 2008, he won a key interest arbitration award and significant salary increases for the Nova Scotia Crown Attorneys’ Association. [8] In a 2013 human rights case, he won a damages award for a construction employee threatened by his supervisor with physical violence. [9] Mr. Chochla represents both unionized and non-union disabled workers fighting for disability benefits and reinstatement to their workplaces, and clients with individual employment or union labour relations law issues, including collective bargaining.