August 29th, 2024
Langlois Celebrates Stellar Success in 2025 Best Lawyers in Canada
60 colleagues in the spotlight this year!
Geneviève Plante
Lawyer
Key practice areas
Labour and Employment Law, Human Rights and Discrimination, Federal Labour and Employment Law, Labour Relations, Strategic HR Advice
Geneviève Plante, CHRP, focuses her practice on labour and employment law. Employers in both the public and private sectors seek her services for various requests relating to labour and employment law in general, but also human rights and freedoms, administrative law and education law. She assists clients and colleagues in analyzing a broad range of complex legal matters, including the interpretation and application of collective agreements and employment contracts, disciplinary and non-disciplinary measures, and union certification, as well as issues related to labour standards, employment termination, psychological harassment and non-compete covenants.
She regularly drafts a wide variety of documents such as employment contracts, termination agreements, legal opinions, pleadings and human resources management policies. In close collaboration with her colleagues, Geneviève is actively involved in developing strategies for litigation, preparing for hearings, and representing employers before various courts and administrative tribunals.
Geneviève’s talent was recently recognized when she was added to the 2024 edition of Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in Canada.
As part of her practice, Geneviève has:
- advised and represented an employer in the education sector in a grievance involving the interpretation of the Act respecting the process of negotiation of the collective agreements in the public and parapublic sectors (R.S.Q., c. R-8.2) before a grievance arbitrator, the Superior Court and the Court of Appeal;
- advised and represented an employer in the academic sector in connection with a student’s discrimination complaint filed with the Commission des droits de la personne et des droits de la jeunesse;
- conducted an independent workplace investigation following a psychological harassment complaint;
- advised and represented employers in the archaeology sector in connection with applications for certification.
- Best Lawyers in Canada: Ones to Watch – Labour and Employment Law, 2024-2025
- Philanthropes du Premier acte for the Théâtre du Rideau vert, Member of the Executive Committee, 2019-2024
- Young Bar of Montreal, Member, since 2016
- Author: “Needed guidance from the Court of Appeal on the question of the quasi-constitutional protection of parental status in Québec”, April 5, 2024.
- Co-author: “Tis the season to be jolly – Office holiday party season, that is!”, December 5, 2023.
- Co-author: “Return-to-work protocol: getting ready to resume”, May 1, 2020.
- Co-author: “The Superior Court takes stock of restrictive covenants included in contracts of partnership”, January 27, 2020.
- Co-author: “Faisons le point sur les ententes de fin d’emploi” [Taking stock of termination agreements], Développements récents en droit de la non-concurrence, Service de la formation continue du Barreau du Québec, Éditions Yvon Blais, Vol. 459, May 2019.
- Author: “Quebec: moral damages for breach of a collective agreement”, July 2018.
- Co-author: “Canada: a father’s complaint for discrimination on the ground of family status disallowed”, April 11, 2017.
- Co-speaker: L’année en rafale – droit scolaire [Education Law – Review of the 2021 Case Law], Langlois Knowledge, webinar, April 26, 2022.
- Co-speaker: L'absentéisme : un défi de taille pour les entreprises [Businesses face major challenge with absenteeism], Langlois Knowledge, webinar, February 3, 2021.
- Co-speaker: L’année en rafale – droit scolaire [Education Law – Review of the 2019 Case Law], Langlois Knowledge, webinar, November 20, 2020.
- Co-speaker: Droit scolaire – Revue jurisprudentielle 2018 [Education Law – Review of the 2018 Case Law], Langlois Knowledge, Montréal, March 26, 2019, and Québec City, April 5, 2019.
MBA., Université Laval, 2017
LL.B., Université Laval, 2013