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Robert Breen, Q.C. is Chair of the New Brunswick Labour and Employment Board, with responsibility over New Brunswick’s general industry, construction, and public labour relations sectors, and mandated as a Board of Inquiry under the province’s Human Rights legislation. Bob’s appointment as Chair in 2008 followed over 30 years in practice as a labour lawyer, including 15 years as a founding partner in an Atlantic Canada public law firm. He was lead counsel in a number of Supreme Court of Canada cases in labour and administrative law, and in his last reported case at the Bar was counsel on the successful Charter challenge on behalf of public sector casual employees in New Brunswick.
While Chair of the predecessor Public Service Labour Relations Board, Bob acted as a mediator in a number of New Brunswick public sector disputes. He was also a member of a Review Panel named by the New Brunswick Government to report recommendations on the Province’s Workers’ Compensation and Occupational Health and Safety legislation. A graduate of Dalhousie University and the University of New Brunswick, Bob was called to the New Brunswick Bar in 1976, and named Queen’s Counsel in 1996. |
