Caroline Marie DeBruin

Caroline maintains a broad practice and provides practical advice to employers in all areas of labour and employment law. She regularly advises on terminations, drafts employment contracts for employees at all levels, and prepares incentive compensation plans, workplace policies, employee handbooks, and severance agreements. She also has experience conducting and advising on independent workplace investigations.

In addition to her advisory work, Caroline regularly represents employers in wrongful dismissal litigation, breach of contract claims, grievance arbitrations, and a variety of labour relations matters. She frequently appears before labour boards, arbitration panels, the Courts, human rights tribunals, and other employment-related administrative bodies. Caroline has a robust litigation practice before the Ontario Labour Relations Board in both the industrial and construction sectors, where she acts as counsel in certification, displacement, and decertification applications, as well as in unfair labour practice complaints and duty of fair representation proceedings. She also advises on collective bargaining, strike and lockout planning, and union avoidance campaigns.

In Kondaj v. Crossbridge Condominium Services Ltd., 2026 ONCA 636 (“Kondaj”), released September 10, 2026, the Court of Appeal for Ontario addressed a novel question arising under the Employment Stand...