Nicolas Joubert and Guy Lavoie, speakers at the CACE 12^th Annual Conference

The Canadian Association of Counsel to Employers (CACE) held its 12^thannual conference from September 10 to September 12, 2015 in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Two Labour Law partners at Lavery, Nicolas Joubert and Guy Lavoie, were speakers at this event

Mr. Joubert presented a conference entitled “Mitigation of damages in the context of wrongful dismissals - Recent developments across Canada”. He covered several aspects of mitigation in the context of wrongful dismissal, namely self-employment as a fulfillment of an employee’s duty to mitigate, and the employer’s burden of proof in establishing the employee’s failure to mitigate.

As for Mr. Lavoie, he took part in a panel answering 11 ethics questions in labour law.