Partner Toronto 416 643.6824 jgoodman@heenan.caCall to the BarOntario, 1990 Areas of ExpertiseEmployment Litigation Class Actions Arbitration & Dispute Resolution Labour & Employment Law Human Rights Occupational Health & Safety Privacy Labour Relations Board Collective Agreements Compensation & Benefits Workforce Planning Employment Standards International Labour Law | | Jeffrey Goodman A lawyer and mediator, Jeffrey Goodman focuses his practice on employment litigation, human rights, labour law and occupational health and safety law. He is the past leader of the Toronto Labour and Employment practice group and recently completed several terms on the firm's National Management Committee. Jeffrey is a member of the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario’s Practice Advisory Committee and is one of a select group of Ontario Lawyers listed in the International Who’s Who of Management Labour and Employment Lawyers.
Jeffrey advises clients on a wide range of employment and labour-related matters and regularly appears before the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario and the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal, all levels of courts in Ontario, the Labour Relations Boards, and various other administrative tribunals. He also acts as counsel and advisor to corporations and insurance companies on issues such as wrongful dismissal, directors’ and officers’ liability, and employee class action lawsuits. Jeffrey acts as an expert on Canadian employment law in international and domestic employment litigation.
A frequent public speaker, Jeffrey regularly chairs conferences on employment, human rights and labour-related matters. He is the co-author of A Guide to Alternative Work Relationships (Canada Law Book) and the coordinating editor and a contributing author of the employment, labour, human rights and privacy law chapters of CCH’s Ultimate Corporate Counsel Guide. He has also authored and co-authored numerous papers and articles on a wide range of employment and human rights issues for legal journals, magazines, newspapers, as well as for legal, accounting and human resources conferences. Jeffrey has recently co-authored the co-ordinated employment chapter of the Employment Law Review, an international treatise published by Law Business Research.
Jeffrey is often quoted as an expert on employment, human rights and labour law issues, including employee class actions, by the Ontario courts and in the press, namely in The National Post, The National Post Business Magazine, The Toronto Star, Lexpert Magazine, The Lawyers Weekly, Law Times, Canadian Retailer, Workplace News, Corporate Legal Times, InsideCounsel.com, OHS Canada, and by the Superior Court of Justice of Ontario and the Court of Appeal for Ontario. He has also appeared on Report on Business Television (ROBTv).
Jeffrey teaches employment law at Queen's University Faculty of Law, and has completed the Program of Instruction for Lawyers Mediation Workshop presented by the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School.
Jeffrey sits on the Canadian Board of Advisors of Generations On Line. Education
LL.B., York University (Osgoode Hall Law School), 1988 B.A., University of Western Ontario, 1985 Professional Affiliations
American Bar Association Canadian Bar Association Global Forum for Cross-Border Human Resources experts (XBHR) International Bar Association Ontario Bar Association The Law Society of Upper Canada (Ontario)
Publications and Conferences Speaker and co-author, “Bad Faith Damages post-Honda”, Law Society of Upper Canada Six Minute Employment Lawyer seminar, June 15, 2010 Co-author, “Barack Obama’s labour strategy evolves”, Canadian Lawyer Inhouse, June 2010 Speaker and author, “Analyzing the Relationship Between Employment Issues and Disability Claims: WSIB, EI and Termination”, 2010 CLHIA Claims Section Annual Conference, May 5, 2010 Speaker and author , “Disability Issues in Labour & Employment Law”, Canadian Institute, Managing Mental Health in the Workplace Conference, April 15, 2010 Co-author, “Labour and Employment law column: Acquiring a workforce: identifying employee issues early in M& As”, Canadian Lawyer Inhouse, April/May 2010 Co-author, "Acquiring a workforce - Identify employee issues early in M&As", Canadian Lawyer In House, Vol. 5 Issue 2, April 2010 Co-author, the co-ordinated employment chapter of the Employment Law Review, an international treatise on employment law published by Law Business Research, March 2010 Speaker and author, “Analyzing the Impact of an Economic Recession on the Duty to Accommodate” to the Ontario Bar Association: The Changing Face of Labour and Employment Law Recessionary Tactics and Emerging Case Law, February 16, 2010 Co-author, “Workplace Violence and Harassment: Meeting New Bill 168 OH & S Requirements and Managing the Problem”, Heenan Blaikie’s 2010 Labour & Employment Seminar Series, Toronto, January 19, 2010 Speaker, "Fraud in the Workplace: An Employer’s Guide", Federated Press conference entitled Understanding Fraudulent Activity, Toronto, December 8, 2009 Panelist, Labour & Employment Law: What We Like and Don’t Like About Mediations Conference, Ontario Bar Association Professional, Toronto, October 27, 2009 Speaker, "Disability Issues in Labour & Employment Law," The Canadian Institute's conference on Managing & Litigating Disability Insurance Claims, Toronto, October 26, 2009 Speaker, "Update on the New Human Rights Regime - Decreasing your Risk of Escalating Claims", The Canadian Institute's Advanced Forum on Employment Law, Toronto, October 15-16, 2009 Panelist, "Managing the Global Workforce: Recent Issues in Global Migration and Non-Competition Agreements", Littler Mendelson Global Employer Conference, Washington, D.C., September 23-25, 2009 Panelist, "The Top 10 ESA Blunders That Can Lead to Individual and Class Actions", Heenan Blaikie’s Managing the Workplace Conference, Toronto, September 23, 2009 Speaker, “Northern Exposure: An American Employer’s Guide to Discrimination Claims in Canada”, Practicing Law Institute’s Conference Employment Discrimination Claims 2009, Extraterritorial Application of US Employment Laws, New York City, June 15-16, 2009 Speaker, “Northern Exposure: An American’s Guide to the Canadian Law on Intellectual Property Rights and Restrictive Covenants in Contracts of Employment”, at the joint New York State Bar & Cornell University, ILR School, Annual International Labor and Employment Law Conference, New York City, June 5-6, 2009 Co-author, "Court Strikes Down Overtime Class Action", American Bar Association International Labor and Employment Law Committee newsletter, June 2009 Speaker, "Entering the New World of Employment Class Actions: An Expanding Forum for the Litigation of Workplace Disputes", Lancaster House (Audio Conference), Toronto, May 15, 2009 Co-author, "Are Wage and Hour Class Actions Here to Stay?", Canadian Lawyer In House Magazine, Vol. 4, Issue 2, April 2009 Speaker, “Northern Exposure: An American Employer’s Guide to Discrimination Claims in Canada”, American Bar Association’s National Conference on Equal Employment Opportunity Law, Orlando, April 1-4, 2009 Co-author, "Defining the Undue Hardship Threshold in the Duty to Accommodate in Employment Law", Lexpert, March 2009 Co-author, "Here We Go Again: Canadian Labour Law and the Charter", Canadian Lawyer In House Magazine, Volume 4, Issue 1, February 2009 Speaker, “The Importance of Investigations in Wrongful Dismissal Actions”, Ontario Bar Association’s 2009 Institute of Continuing Legal Education Conference, Corporate Counsel, Love and Marriage, An Employment Law Refresher, Toronto, February 3, 2009 Speaker, "Understanding the Duty to Accommodate and Bringing Employees Back to Work", The Canadian Institute’s 9th Annual Litigation Disability Insurance Claims conference - Effective Strategies for Successfully Litigating or Defending Claims, Toronto, October 26-27, 2008 Speaker and co-chair, "Employment-Related Class Actions in Canada", The Canadian Institute’s 8th Annual Forum on Employment Law, Toronto, October 16-17, 2008 Speaker, "Hours of Work and Overtime - Rule, Exceptions, Remedies", HR Thought Leader webinar at the HRPAO webcast, September 10, 2008 Co-author, "Corporate social responsibility: a commitment in good times and in bad?", Newsletter of the Employment and Industrial Relations Law division of the International Bar Association, Vol. 18, No. 2, September 2008, 8-10 Speaker, “Entering the New World of Employment Class Actions", An Expanding Forum for the Litigation of Workplace Disputes, Lancaster House audio conference, May 15, 2008 Speaker, "Workplace Violence and Working Alone: Evolving Expectations and Enforcement Trends", IAPA conference, Toronto, April 2008 Speaker, "Recent Developments in Canadian Individual Termination Law, at the International Breakfast of the American Bar Association’s National Conference on Equal Employment Opportunity Law, Tucson, Arizona, March 26-29, 2008 Speaker, “Divergence of American and Canadian Employment Laws", joint New York State Bar & Cornell University ILR School conference entitled As The World Turns: Perspectives on International Labor and Employment Law, New York City, March 7-8, 2008 Speaker, “Fundamentals and Shifts in Canadian Employment Law and their Impact on the Cross-Border Transfer of Employees”, New York State Bar Association Labor and Employment Law Section Fall meeting, Ithica, New York, September 28-30, 2007 Coordinating editor and contributor to the employment, labour, human rights and privacy law chapters of the Ultimate Corporate Counsel Guide published by CCH in 2007 Co-author and speaker, "American and Canadian Employment Law: Divergence or Convergence?", American Bar Association, Section of Labour and Employment Law, National Conference on Equal Employment Opportunity Law, Charleston, March 21, 2007 Speaker, "Fraud in the workplace: An Employer’s Guide", Federated Press’ Transaction Fraud Conference, Toronto, January 22-23, 2007 Co-author, "Recent Developments in Employment Law", the introductory article for the employment lawyers section of the Lexpert/American Lawyer 2007 Guide to the Leading Top 500 Lawyers in Canada Speaker, "Wrongful Dismissal Claims Masquerading as Human Rights Complaints", Infonex’s Human Rights in the Ontario Workplace conference, Toronto, December 12-13, 2006 Speaker, "What’s New in Ontario Employment and Labour Law", CCH’s Ultimate Corporate Counsel Conference, Toronto, November 21, 2006 Author, "The Pitfall of Independent Contractor Relationships" in The Job Description - The newsletter of The Voice of the Defense Bar (DRI) Employment Law Committee, Fall 2006, (a more extensive version of this article was also presented at HRPAO’s HR Law conference, Toronto, October 25, 2006) Speaker & Co-Chair, "Changes to the Ontario Human Rights Code", panel discussion at Infonex’s 5th Annual Meeting Your Duty to Accommodate Conference, October 24, 2006 Author, "Ontario’s Proposed Human Rights Reform" in the Legal Speak column, Human Resources Professionals Association of Ontario’s (HRPAO) HR Professional Magazine, October/ November 2006 Co-author and speaker, "Down the Rabbit Hole: Bill 107’s Transformation of Ontario’s Human Rights System", Canadian Institute’s 6th Annual Advanced Forum on Employment Law, Toronto, October 18, 2006 Co-author, A Guide to Alternative Work Relationships, Canada Law Book, December 2005 Chair and speaker, "Recent Decisions and Legislation Relating to the Duty to Accommodate", Infonex’s Meeting Your Duty to Accommodate Conference, Toronto, October 24-27, 2005 Chair and speaker, "Latest Developments in Recent Duty to Accommodate Case Law", Management Performance Centre’s Duty to Accommodate Seminar, Toronto, March 30-31, 2005 Speaker, "How to Avoid Liability When Bad-Faith Termination is Alleged", Canadian Institute’s Employment Law Seminar, Toronto, November 2-3, 2004 Speaker, "Discrimination at Work", Ontario Bar Association Conference on Human Rights and Privacy in the Workplace, Toronto, February 16, 2004 Chair, Infonex conference Meeting your Duty to Accommodate, Toronto, October 21-22, 2003 Speaker, "Recent Developments in the Law of Just Cause", Lorman Seminars Conference on Employment Law Update, Toronto, October 7, 2003 Author, "Workplace Human Rights Recent Developments of Importance", introductory article for the workplace Human Rights Section of the Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory 2003 Author, "Don’t Get Too Personal During the Hiring Process", Canadian Retailer, July/August 2003 Chair and speaker, "Exploring Access to Personal File...Contesting the Contents", Infonex Conference on Privacy in the Ontario Workplace, Toronto, June 17-18, 2002 Author, "Workplace Human Rights Recent Developments of Importance", introductory article for the Workplace Human Rights Section of the Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory 2002 Speaker and co-author, "Recent Developments on Unjust Dismissal", Law Society of Upper Canada's 2nd Annual Employment Law Forum, Toronto, December 6, 2001 Author, "Approach with Caution–Issue Estoppel in Employment Insurance Adjudications", Canadian Labour and Employment Law Journal, Volume 8, No. 3, 2001 (An updated version of this article is published in the Canadian Cases on Employment Law, 3 C.C.E.L. (3d) 2001) Co-author, "The Reforms to Part I of the Canada Labour Code", Corporate Securities and Finance Law Report, Volume 5, No. 4, July/August 2000 Co-author, "The Changing Labour Relations Environment in the Federal Sector", Corporate Securities and Finance Law Report, Volume 5, No. 2, March/April 2000 Author, "Disciplining the Harasser-Issues to Consider when Terminating the Harasser", Corporate Securities and Finance Law Report, Volume 5, No. 1, January/February 2000 Chair, Infonex conference entitled Minimizing Liability with Independent Contractors, October 6-7, 1999 Speaker, "Issues to Consider When Terminating the Harasser", Infonex’s Conference on Human Rights and Privacy in the Workplace,Toronto, July 6, 1999 Co-author, "Ask the Experts", Retail Council of Canada’s Instore News newsletter, June 1999 Contributing author, The Canadian/US Relocation Manual: Immigration, Customs, Employment and Taxation Matters, Carswell, January 1999 Speaker and co-author, "Understanding the Changing Legal Environment in Federal Employment Regulations and Standards", Infonex’s Conference on Federal Workplace Regulation, A Practical Update, Toronto, November 30, 1998 Author, "Disciplining The Sexual Harasser: Does Zero Tolerance Equal Just Cause?", Canadian Corporate Counsel Magazine, July/August 1998 Speaker at three seminars presented by Drake Beam Morin on various topics including Recent Developments in Employment Law, June/July 1998 Speaker and co-author, "Disciplining the Harasser: Does Zero Tolerance Equal Just Cause", Sexual Harassment Update Conference by the Counsel on Education in Management, Toronto, May 12, 1998 Co-author and speaker, "Legal Considerations of Running a Loss Prevention Department", Retail Counsel of Canada’s Conference on Loss Prevention, Toronto, April 21, 1998 Co-chair, Insight’s Management Forum on Managing in a Unionized Environment, April 6-7, 1998 Co-author, "The Legal Implications of Running a Loss Prevention Department", Canadian Retailer, March/April 1998 Co-author, "Ties That Bind at Common Law: Issue Estoppel, Employment Standards and Unemployment Insurance Adjudication", Canadian Cases on Employment Law, Volume 24, Part 2, April 1997 Author, "Outsourcing: Ensuring that Independent Contractors Are Not Really Employees", Canadian Corporate Counsel Magazine, July/August 1996 Co-author, "Employer Compliance Reviews", Canadian Retailer, July/August 1996 Author, "The Paperless Chase, E-Mail and Its Impact on Employment Litigation", Human Resources Professional Magazine, June 1996 Co-author, "Disability Leave and Severance Pay", Resume Magazine, March 1996 Co-author, "Revising the Cronk Decision", Resume Magazine, January 1996 Author, "Employers Can't Ignore The Impact of Ontario Employment Standards Act on Wrongful Dismissal Litigation", The Lawyers Weekly, April 28, 1995 Co-author, "Certificates of Pending Litigation: Obtaining and Retaining Security Against Land", CBAO, December 5, 1991 and Carswell Practise Cases, (1992) 5 C.P.C. 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