Mark Tector

Partner

• Queen’s Marque
  600-1741 Lower Water Street
  Halifax, N.S.
  B3J 0J2
• +1.902.420.3358
• +1.902.420.1417
• mtector@stewartmckelvey.com

Language(s) spoken: English

Bar Admission(s): Nova Scotia, 2004; Ontario, 2002

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Legal Assistant(s): Angela Atkinson

Mark is recognized as a leading practitioner in the areas of labour and employment law. He assists clients with such matters as collective bargaining, wrongful dismissals, employment agreements, workplace investigations, purchase and sale agreements (in relation to employment issues), human rights, arbitrations, litigation involving non-solicitation and non-competition agreements and occupational health and safety matters. His clients are both international and local, and range across many sectors, including IT, retail, health care, not-for-profit organizations, safety services, engineering services, auto sales, manufacturing, transportation, education, mining, and energy. He is a litigator and has extensive experience dealing with different workplace situations and successfully representing clients before all types (and levels) of court, arbitrators, boards and tribunals. Mark is listed as a leader in the areas of labour and employment law by a number of legal publications, and is consulted by the media to speak on various workplace related issues.

Some of the ways Mark has helped his clients are by:

• Successfully defending against claims of wrongful and constructive dismissal
• Providing strategic advice to unionized employers regarding the interpretation of collective agreements, unionization, grievances and arbitration
• Successfully defending against human rights complaints
• Regularly representing employers in defending against various OHS charges, including charges relating to fatal injuries, under both federal and provincial occupational health and safety legislation
• Being counsel on the leading Nova Scotia case in which the claim of “negligent infliction of emotional harm” was struck against an employer
• Appearing before the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal on one of the leading Canadian cases concerning mitigation in wrongful dismissal cases
• Conducting workplace investigations and providing strategic advice in relation to such investigations
• Providing strategic advice on issues such as employment agreements, labour standards, workplace misconduct, and sick leave
• Providing strategic advice in relation to employment and labour law issues in the purchase and sale of businesses, including some of the largest deals that have taken place in the Atlantic Provinces
• Litigating non-solicitation and non-competition agreements