August 22nd, 2024
Important decision on workplace privacy rendered by the Supreme Court of Canada
On June 21, 2024, the Supreme Court of Canada rendered an important decision on workplace privacy protections for teachers.
Eliab Taïrou
Partner
Key practice areas
Labour and Employment Law, Language Rights, Strategic HR Advice, Employment Law, Labour Relations
Eliab Taïrou is a member of the Labour and Employment Law group. He focuses his practice on representing public and private sector employers under federal and provincial jurisdiction in unionized and non-unionized workplaces. In addition to providing advice on all aspects of labour and employment law, he serves as the employer’s spokesperson in collective bargaining and as a representative in hearings before the Administrative Labour Tribunal, arbitrators of grievances and civil courts. As part of large-scale commercial transactions, Eliab supports clients for all their labour and employment law needs and sometimes carries out external investigator engagements. His experience also includes certification and decertification proceedings, human rights and freedoms, psychological harassment, French-language use in the workplace, long-term incentive plans and pay equity.
In addition, Eliab is interested in workplace privacy, employee social media use and whistleblower governance, and closely monitors legal developments in these areas.
- Renewal negotiations for a collective agreement in the food processing and education industries.
- Business transaction supervisor and advisor for GardaWorld.
- Advice and representation in grievance arbitrations.
- Representation in a decertification proceeding under federal jurisdiction.
- Arbitration of complaints for unjust dismissal under federal jurisdiction.
- Hearing before the Administrative Labour Tribunal with regard to dismissals not made for good and sufficient cause and complaints related to prohibited practices.
- Hearing before the Administrative Labour Tribunal with regard to psychological harassment complaints.
- External investigator for discrimination and psychological harassment complaints.
- Covenants – injunction hearing in civil courts and advice relating to confidentiality, non-compete and non-solicitation clauses.
- Individual and collective dismissals (provincial and federal jurisdictions).
- Hearing before the Administrative Labour Tribunal with regard to contestations relating to industrial accidents.
- Monitoring of a business in connection with the francization process (Office québécois de la langue française) pursuant to the Charter of the French Language.
- Association of Young Chambers of Commerce of Québec, Director, since 2022
- Université Laval, Donor of the Bansoba-Nour scholarship (awarded to a black Law student), since 2022
- Langlois Lawyers, Member of the Diversity and Inclusion Committee, since 2022
- Local Centre for Social Integration and Cohesion (CLICS Laval), Director, 2016-2018
- Co-author: “Important decision on workplace privacy rendered by the Supreme Court of Canada”, August 22, 2024.
- Co-author: “Stock option plans in Québec: key considerations”, February 7, 2024.
- Co-author: “Teachers’ right to privacy: a decision of interest is expected from the Supreme Court of Canada”, August 18, 2023; also published in Canadian Privacy Law Review, Vol. 20, No. 11, October 2023.
- Author: “Amendments to the Competition Act regarding the legality of wage-fixing and no-poaching agreements”, July 12, 2023.
- Co-author: “How the Act respecting French, the official and common language of Québec, has affected businesses and what’s in store for employers”, March 27, 2023.
- Co-author: “Bill 96 amending the Charter of the French Language: What employers need to know”, June 23, 2022.
- Speaker: Valorisation des juristes noirs [Promoting black jurists], Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, January 16, 2024.
- Panelist: Employment law: a 360-degree overview, as part of the 8th Edition of the Civil Law Symposium organized by the Black Law Students' Association of Canada, Montréal, October 28, 2023.
- Trainer: Basic workplace investigation techniques, presented to the Canadian Forces Morale and Welfare Services, March 21-23, 2023.
- Panelist: D’étudiant(e) à avocat(e) : stratégie d’études, démystifier le réseautage, trouver un emploi et naviguer sur le marché du travail [From student to lawyer: Study strategy, demystify networking, find a job and navigate the labour market], as part of the 7th Edition of the Civil Law Symposium organized by the Black Law Students' Association of Canada, Montréal, November 5, 2022.
- Speaker: Filature, surveillance et enregistrements : revue de la jurisprudence récente en matière d’admissibilité en preuve et autres aspects de relations de travail [Tailing, surveillance and recordings: Review of recent case law regarding admission in evidence and other labour relations issues], Groupe du 2e mardi, Montréal, May 10, 2022.
- Speaker: Projet de loi no 176 : Conciliation travail-famille – modifications à la Loi sur les normes du travail [Bill 176: Work-life balance – changes to the Act respecting labour standards], presentation before a group of promoters for SME MTL West-Island and TD bankers, 2018-2019.
Quoted: “Clauses de non-concurrence et pénurie de main-d’œuvre : une adaptation est-elle requise?” [Non-competition clauses and labour shortages: is an adaptation required?], Les Affaires, July 6, 2021.
Microprogram in Law and Labour, Université de Montréal, 2014
LL.B., Université Laval, 2009