Ryan Johnston

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About Ryan Johnston

Ryan is a labour, employment and technology lawyer with substantial management-side experience. He is focused on developing policies, procedures and providing advice to clients to maximize their success. Ryan uses his software programming background to create tools to maximize productivity and efficiency of results. Ryan is experienced in providing advice and support on a variety of issues: • Negotiation of first collective agreements and subsequent renewals in group home, construction industry, industrial and university sectors • Negotiation of conversion of pension plan from a defined benefit plan to shared risk plan • Monetary and non-monetary benchmarking analysis and costing of collective agreements, proposals and labour strategies • Counsel on process to deal with accommodation requests and issues, including defending against human rights complaint • Manage the grievance process and formal and informal dispute resolution mechanisms • Advocate before labour boards, arbitrators and courts • Advise on the entire range of labour and employment legal issues including appropriate level of discipline, just cause, negotiating severance and notice periods, surveillance and privacy and sale of business issues • Preparation and legal review of HR policies and guidelines • Draft, negotiate and revise software license agreements, service level agreements, outsourcing agreements Specialties: Legal - Labour and employment, human resources, privacy, negotiation (management side), human rights, ADR, benchmarking, labour strategy, outsourcing, interest-based bargaining, trade-marks, software licenses Information Technology - VB, C/C++, Java/JavaScript, Flash, Shockwave, WYSIWYG layout tools.