Senior Associate, CRIA, CIRC

Alexandre Pinard works in the field of labour and employment law. His practice consists of supporting and assisting managers in the areas of labour relations, occupational health and safety, and human rights and freedoms, in an employment context.

Education

• Master Degree (M. Sc.) in Labour Relations, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, 2025
• Seminar on pleading techniques, Quebec Bar, 2022
• LL.B., Université Laval, 2013

His areas of practice include grievance arbitration, the negotiation of collective agreements, labour standards, and the provision of consulting and legal opinion services with respect to employment contracts.

Prior to joining Lavery, he worked, among other things, in the health and social services network as a labour relations manager.

Representative mandates

• Acts as the employer spokesperson for the negotiation of collective agreements
• Represents various companies before arbitration tribunals and the Administrative Labour Tribunal
• Represents and acts as legal advisor to many companies on labour and employment law matters

Publications

• Alexandre Pinard and Richard Gaudreault, L'arbitrage de différends : la fonction d'assesseur, in Développements récents en droit du travail (2025), Volume 574, Barreau du Québec, Cowansville, Éditions Yvon Blais, 2025, p. 255
• Alexandre Pinard and Simon Gagné-Carrier, Négociation et rédaction d'une entente de fin d'emploi : des concessions réciproques? in Carrefour RH, Ordre des conseillers en ressources humaines, March 12, 2025
• Alexandre Pinard, Droit de l'employeur d'obtenir des certificats médicaux : de nouvelles restrictions depuis le 1er janvier 2025, in Carrefour RH, January 15, 2025
• Alexandre Pinard, La gestion disciplinaire : fondements, effets et alternatives, in Sébastien Beauregard, Jean-Yves Brière, Francine Lamy, Marc Mancini and Denis Nadeau (eds.), 50th Anniversary of the Québec Arbitrators' Conference: A Half-Century of Reflection and Evolution, Montreal, Wilson & Lafleur, 2024, p. 199
• Alexandre Pinard and Gabrielle Moreau, Le recours aux tribunaux civils en cours d'emploi, in Vigie-RT, Ordre des conseillers en ressources humaines, October 3, 2018
• Alexandre Pinard, Le droit à l'égalité en emploi des non-pratiquants chez un employeur religieux, in Vigie-RT, Ordre des conseillers en ressources humaines, December 20, 2017

Lectures

• Repenser la gestion disciplinaire - regard positif, training presented with Me Geneviève Beaudin by the Ordre des conseillers en ressources humaines, 2025
• L'arbitrage de différends : la fonction d'assesseur, conference presented with Me Richard Gaudreault as part of the Développements récents en droit du travail du Barreau du Québec, 2025
• Les mesures disciplinaires et administratives, guest panelist at the 50th Colloque de la Conférence des arbitres du Québec, 2024
• La gestion disciplinaire : ses fondements, ses limites et ses alternatives, lecture presented with Me Geneviève Beaudin at the Congrès RH 2024 of the Ordre des conseillers en ressources humaines, 2024
• Recent developments in labour and employment law, with Me Brittany Carson and Me Romeo Aguilaz Perez, conference presented as part of the Symposium annuel en droit du travail et de l'emploi, 2024
• Recent developments in labour and employment law, with Me Benoit Brouillette and Me Josiane L'Heureux, conference presented as part of the Symposium annuel en droit du travail et de l'emploi, 2022
• Recent developments in labour and employment law, with Me Ariane Pasquier and Me Marie-Hélène Riverin, conference presented as part of the Annual Symposium on Labour and Employment Law, 2021
• Human Resources Management Law in the Health and Social Services Network, conference presented to graduate students of the National School of Public Administration, 2021

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