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| Yola Grant practices employment, labour and human rights law at Grant & Bernhardt. Yola's practice focuses on the non-profit sector and includes the conduct of human rights investigations and private mediations, training of management staff and directors, and advice on personnel policies and collective agreements. Between 1990 and 1994 Yola served as a Crown Prosecutor, addressing occupational health and safety violations and enforcing minimum standards legislation in the construction, industrial, and mining sectors. From 1994 to 1998 she was Tribunal Counsel to the Pay Equity Hearings Tribunal, Employment Equity Tribunal and the Human Rights Board of Inquiry, where she drafted rules of practice, provided advice to adjudicators on substantive case law, and mediated numerous human rights disputes.
Yola worked pro bono for over six years for Women's Legal Education and Action Fund (LEAF), appearing at the appellate level as counsel in important Charter litigation, including: R. v. R.D.S.; Francis v. The Ministry of Citizenship and Immigration; and Lesiuk v. Canada. Yola has served as a board director for numerous non-profit organizations. She is a former Seminar Leader, Public Law Section of the Bar Admissions Course and she speaks regularly to the profession on issues relating to human rights and fairness at Law Society CLE and Osgoode Hall Professional Development Programs. |
