André Sasseville

Université McGill
Successfully represented McGill University in the Amoriggi v. McGill University et al., 2017 QCCS 5621, conf. by 2019 QCCA 960, which was concerned with the right of an employer to dismiss an employee whose performance has fallen below the eligibility standards expected for their position.

City of Laval
Since May 2013 André has been advising the City of Laval and its interim commissioners on the employment relationship with certain of its officers whose conduct has come under scrutiny during the hearings of the Charbonneau Commission into corruption in Quebec’s construction industry. He has since been advising the City in connection with various sensitive files concerning City employees and on the adoption of policies to detect and prevent corruption.

Order of Chartered Professional Accountants
Since 2014 he has provided training sessions on human resources management and labour law in connection with the continuing professional education program of the CPA. 

Couche-Tard
In 2012 and 2013 André represented convenience-store owner Couche-Tard regarding complaints filed by CSN-affiliated unions in connection with a union organizing drive and allegedly related store-closings.

L’Allier Committee
In 2009 and 2010 André served on the L’Allier Committee, which was created by the Quebec Minister of Culture, Communications and the Status of Women to determine whether a consensus could be achieved for the purpose of proposing amendments to legislation affecting the status of artists.

Hapag-Lloyd’s Acquisition of CP Ships
In 2007, André advised Hapag-Lloyd Canada regarding its acquisition of CP Ships and the integration of its human resources.

City of Montréal
In 2007, André was retained as counsel for one of the boroughs of the City of Montréal in the mediation/arbitration of the first agreement on local conditions in respect of the matters referred to in Section 49 of the City’s charter.

Canadian Space Agency
In 2004, André was retained on an urgent basis by the Canadian Space Agency for the resolution of a dispute among the members of the Canadarm team.

Société de Transport de la Communauté Urbaine de Québec
In 2003, André was hired by the S.T.C.U.Q. (now the R.T.C.) regarding a management grievance for the recovery of $1.9 million in losses caused by an illegal union strike.

In 2001, he was retained to advise the S.T.C.U.Q. in connection with its bid to improve its labour relations. As part of this mandate, he also acted as spokesperson for the S.T.C.U.Q. in connection with the renewal of its collective agreement with its employees, and then as counsel in a dispute arbitration prescribed by a special statute.

Department of National Defence
In 2001 André’s services were retained by the Department of National Defence’s 202^nd Workshop Depot unit for the negotiation and implementation of a unique human resources reorganization plan with a view to meeting new Government of Canada standards requiring this unit to meet the same performance criteria as the private sector.

Para-public corporation
In 2000, André acted as presenter and trainer in connection with the first “win-win” or “interest-based” negotiation ever undertaken by one of the province’s major para-public corporations.

Bell Canada
In the late 1990s, he served as counsel to the acquirer in connection with Bell Canada’s collective agreement negotiations with its telephone operators, whose services Bell sought to permanently outsource.

Appearances before the Canada Industrial Relations Board
From 1996 to 1999 André was involved in a series of cases before the Canada Industrial Relations Board regarding the change of an employer’s representative in regional collective agreement negotiations with stevedores in the ports of Québec City and Bécancour.

Aéroports de Montréal
During 1994, as counsel to Aéroports de Montréal, he consolidated the federal public service’s 22 bargaining units into the four current bargaining units. He was then mandated by Aéroports de Montréal to establish the objectives and negotiation strategy for the initial collective agreements with those four bargaining units. During the lead-up to the signing of those collective agreements, he served as employer spokesperson at critical times during negotiations with the bargaining units.