Partner

M^e Nicolas Joubert is a partner with Lavery Lawyers in Montréal and has been a member of the Labour and Employment Law group since 2005.

Education

• B.C.L. / LL.B., McGill University, 2004
• B.A.A., Université du Québec à Montréal, 2001

Significant Accomplishments

A graduate of McGill University’s National Program (civil and common law), M^e Joubert advises and represents businesses of every size on labour and employment law matters, specifically individual and collective relations, complex terminations of employment, occupational health and safety, and allegations of discrimination and harassment.

M^e Joubert regularly represents Lavery clients before the civil and administrative tribunals. He frequently appears before the Tribunal administratif du travail (“Occupational Health and Safety” and “Labour Relations” divisions), the Civil Courts, and grievance boards.  He often acts as spokesperson for management during collective bargaining.

Since 2005, M^e Joubert has successfully represented a number of major employers in the transportation, security, retail commerce and manufacturing industries. As a result, he has developed leading-edge expertise in these sectors. 

M^e Joubert is often invited to speak on labour, employment, and occupational health and safety law and deliver training on these same subjects. He serves on various committees of the Conseil du patronat du Québec.

M^e Joubert also holds a Bachelor in Business Administration (specialized in Finance), and actively participates in developing international business strategies based on a proactive, integrated approach.

Equally comfortable in Canada’s two official languages and legal systems (civil and common law), he received the Canadian Bar Association Award during the Pierre-Basile-Mignault Moot Competition and was part of the best pair of oralists during McGill University’s Bar Prize Moot.

Professional Associations
Canadian Bar Association
Canadian Association of Counsel to Employers
Quebec Employers Council

• Labor Shortage: Answers to Your Questions about Hiring a Foreign Worker

  By Nicolas Joubert |January 2020

Additional Articles

• Psychological Harassment in the Workplace: What's New?
• Determination of the real employer under the Act respecting Industrial Accidents and Occupational Diseases when a business entrusts the management of its human resources to a personnel agency
• Recording in the work environment: do your telephone conversations belong to you?
• New Labour Standards: Authorized Absences due to a Criminal Offence, the Disappearance of a Child or the Suicide of a Close Relative
• New Labour Standards: Leave for Reservists, the Concept of Cohabitation and the new Advance Notice for Paternity Leave
• New Labour Standards: Authorized Absences due to a Criminal Offence, the Disappearance of a Child or the Suicide of a Close Relative
• The Court of Appeal confirms the right of an employer to continue its operations during a labour dispute
• Employers: to what extent can you control your employees’ physical appearance?
• The lack of conclusive scientific evidence is not necessarily a fatal bar to proving causation in relation to an occupational disease, according to the Supreme Court of Canada
• The Canadelle case and the importance of contesting certain CNESST decisions promptly
• Employer surveillance of employees: criteria and application in the age of social media¹
• New Regulation Respecting Immigration to Québec: Economic needs of Quebec and its regions come first