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Ken Stuebing began working with CaleyWray Labour and Employment Lawyers as an articling student and joined the firm in 2005 following his call to the Bar.

Ken practices in all areas of labour law acting on behalf of trade unions and associations. Ken’s practice includes appearing at arbitration, before labour boards and other administrative tribunals and providing advice on collective bargaining issues.

Over the course of his career as a legal representative—first with Advocates for Injured Workers (a satellite clinic of the Industrial Accidents Victims Group of Ontario) and presently at CaleyWray—he has developed a special interest in Workplace Safety and Insurance Board claims representation and related issues.

While in law school, Ken co-founded the Student Public Interest Network Legal Action Workshops (SPINLAW) group that organizes annual conferences to highlight pressing issues in social justice and public policy. In 2004, Ken was awarded the Osgoode Society Legal History Book Prize for excellence in legal historical writing.

Ken is a firm believer in the transformative power of song and the importance of music in general for social movements. For Ken, music is like breathing.

Activities

• Member, Canadian Bar Association – Ontario
• Ontario Vice President, Canadian Association of Labour Lawyers (CALL)
• Member, Ontario Bar Association Workers’ Compensation section
• Member, Law Union of Ontario

Recent Notable Cases

• Quality Control Council of Canada v. Axiom NDT Corporation, 2009 CanLII 13566 (Ontario Labour Relations Board) [The Employer can be held accountable for its role in influencing the owner-client’s decision to remove employees from the worksite.]
• Canadian Railway Office of Arbitration and Dispute Resolution Case No. 3775 (June 24, 2009) [The employer had no cause to terminate an employee for absences due to the emotional consequences of a railway crossing accident. The grievor was ordered reinstated with full compensation and no loss of seniority]
• Imperial Oil Limited v. Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada, Local 900, 2008 CanLII 71971 (ON L.A.) [The employer violated the Collective Agreement when it did not continue to credit the grievor with his vacation entitlement while the grievor was on disability leave]

Publications

• A Tale of Two Bona Fides OBA Labour Relations Volume 11, No. 1 (Sept. 2008)
• Have I Told You, Lately? The OLRB Exercises Newfound Discretion to Relieve Against Statutory Timelines – OBA Labour Relations Volume 10, No. 2 (Dec. 2007)
• Gimme Shall-ter: The Ontario Superior Court of Justice (Divisional Court) Reverses OLRB Precedent on Timeliness – OBA Labour Relations Volume 9, No. 5 (May 2007)
• To Sue or Not to Sue: That Raise Many Questions OBA Workers Compensation Section Volume 14, No. 3 (May 2010)