| | Trish Janzen is a labour and employment lawyer at Harris & Company in Vancouver, with a particular focus on human rights, including harassment investigations, accommodations and workplace diversity training. She regularly provides training workshops to employers on investigation skills, the duty to accommodate, harassment prevention, collective bargaining, progressive discipline and disability management. Trish has investigated well over 100 complaints of harassment based on both prohibited grounds, including sexual harassment and personal harassment, in the role of independent investigator and as legal counsel to the employer.
Trish is recognized in The Best Lawyers in Canada, published by Woodward White, as one of the leading labour and employment lawyers in Canada in a peer-review survey. She is a Director of the Canadian Mental Health Association, B.C. Division; a Director and on-line instructor for the National Institute of Disability Management and Research (NIDMAR); a Director of the Pacific Coast University for Workplace Health Sciences; a member of the Canadian Association of Counsel to Employers (CACE); and a former Director of the Human Resources Management Association of British Columbia. In addition, Trish is a member of the Employment, Human Rights, Labour and Privacy Sections of the Canadian Bar Association and is a frequent lecturer for a wide variety of legal and human resources organizations. She received her Bachelor of Arts and Law degrees from the University of British Columbia and was called to the British Columbia Bar in 1977. |
