Marjolaine Lessard-Jean

 Lawyer
Key practice areas
Labour and Employment Law, Labour Relations, Human Rights and Discrimination, Strategic HR Advice, Employment Law
Québec Bar 2015
Montréal
+1 514 282 7815
marjolaine.lessard-jean@langlois.ca
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Marjolaine Lessard-Jean focuses her practice on labour and employment law. She leverages her extensive expertise to support a wide variety of clients, ranging from family-owned and operated businesses to major corporations and small and medium-sized businesses from all sectors.

Marjolaine is actively involved in developing strategies, preparing cases and defending them before tribunals and courts. She also acts as an independent investigator in psychological harassment investigations.

She advises and assists clients in all aspects of labour and employment law as well as human resources management, including matters related to the hiring and dismissal of employees, the interpretation of collective agreements, grievance arbitrations, labour relations, labour standards and employment-related litigation.

For many years, Marjolaine has been involved in various cultural organizations. She sits on the board of Danse Carpe Diem / Emmanuel Jouthe, a dance company that produces and presents contemporary choreographic works that shine on local and international stages.

  • Best Lawyers in Canada: Ones to Watch – Labour and Employment Law, 2024-2025
  • Danse Carpe Diem / Emmanuel Jouthe, Member of the Board of Directors, since 2020
  • Festival Jamais Lu, Member of the Funding Committee, 2017-2021
  • Panelist: Changing the conversation, The Advocates’ Society, November 22, 2023.
  • Co-speaker: La gestion de la discipline et de la performance dans la nouvelle réalité du travail [Managing discipline and performance in the new work reality], Langlois Knowledge, webinar, September 19, 2023.
  • Co-speaker: La gestion de la discipline et de la performance dans la nouvelle réalité du travail [Managing discipline and performance in the new work reality], Bar of Montréal, June 6, 2023.
  • Co-speaker: Droit scolaire – Revue jurisprudentielle 2021 [Education Law – Review of the 2021 Case Law], Langlois Knowledge, webinar, April 26, 2022.
  • Co-speaker: Le télétravail et ses enjeux : quels impacts et quelles solutions? [Impacts and solutions to the challenges of a remote workforce], Langlois Knowledge, webinar, February 18, 2021.
  • Co-speaker: Deux aspects juridiques fondamentaux à ne pas négliger lorsqu’on se lance en affaires : Le contrat de travail et la protection des actifs informationnels et de la propriété intellectuelle [Two fundamental legal considerations to bear in mind when starting a business: The employment contract and the protection of information assets and intellectual property], organized by Expo Entrepreneurs, Montréal, January 23, 2019.

LL.B., Université de Montréal, 2013

Student Exchange, Master Program Course, International Law and Human Rights, Universitetet i Oslo, 2012

Featured Articles

Publications
January 11th, 2023

The Court of Appeal rules: employers cannot deduct disability insurance benefits from pay in lieu of notice
On September 1, 2022, the Quebec Court of Appeal handed down an important decision in Caisse populaire Desjardins de Saint-Raymond–Sainte-Catherine c. Girard.1 In a unanimous decision, the Court ruled that disability benefits received by an employee and paid by an insurer cannot be deducted from pay in lieu of notice, regardless of whether the employer pays […]
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Workshops and conferences
December 1st, 2022

Education Law – Review of the 2021 Case Law
On April 26, the Education Law team at Langlois Lawyers would like to invite you to its annual case law review for the year 2021. During this seminar, members of our team will present the most significant decisions rendered in the education sector over the past year. The decisions discussed will cover various topics of […]
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Workshops and conferences
February 18th, 2021

Impacts and solutions to the challenges of a remote workforce
Last February 18, partner Marianne Plamondon, CHRP and Marjolaine Lessard-Jean, both lawyers within our labour and employment law team, presented a webinar on the new challenges of having a remote workforce. In the spring of 2020, for many companies, having staff working remotely became the new norm. Time has come to bring in measures that will ensure […]
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Publications
October 29th, 2019

Harassment Policy: Last Chance to Be in Good Standing
The amendment of the Act respecting labour standards, which requires employers to adopt and make available to their employees “a psychological harassment prevention and complaint processing policy that includes, in particular, a section on behaviour that manifests itself in the form of verbal comments, actions or gestures of a sexual nature”1 came into force on January […]
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Publications
August 8th, 2019

Untoward Habit or Addiction
A recent arbitration award in Nova Scotia has concluded that sex addiction, which is sometimes invoked by employees to justify inappropriate behaviour in the workplace, does not constitute a disability. Consequently, it is not possible to argue that it is a mitigating factor or that it triggers the employer’s duty to accommodate.  What happened?  In […]
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Firm news
October 23rd, 2018

Langlois Welcomes Seven Talented New Lawyers to Its Labour and Employment Law Team
Langlois is pleased to announce that its clients can now rely on the expertise of seven talented new lawyers specialized in labour and employment law, two of whom are partners. “The arrival of these seven exceptional lawyers is a decided asset that allows us to diversify our service offering in the area of labour and employment law. With their experience and in-depth knowledge, they will help our clients achieve success, and we are delighted to welcome them to the firm”, stated Jean-François Gagnon, the chief executive of Langlois Lawyers.
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