Alan McCallum

Biography

Alan McCallum is a labour and employment lawyer based in PooranLaw’s Toronto office. Alan Joined PooranLaw in 2019 and has developed a practice dedicated to advising employers in the disability, health, and social services sectors in relation to a wide range of labour, employment, and human rights law matters. Alan has assisted and represented clients in the following matters:

• Day-to-day management of collective bargaining relationships, including routine collective agreement interpretation and grievance responses.
• Labour mediation and arbitration, with a focus on developmental services.
• Collective agreement negotiations.
• Ontario Labour Relation Board proceedings, including unfair labour practices.
• Pay equity compliance.
• Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario proceedings, for both applicants and respondents.
• Routine compliance with the Employment Standards Act and related legislation.
• Wrongful dismissal demands and related proceedings in civil court.
• Contract development and compliance for agencies with non-unionized employees.

Alan prides himself in taking a client-centred approach to the practice of law, and providing legal solutions and human resources advice that fits the unique needs of each client he represents. He is deeply passionate about the areas he practices in, and approaches issues with creativity, initiative, and dedication.

Alan is also invested in accessibly teaching employment law to non-legal audiences. He has taught college-level introductory courses in the subject for occupational health and safety workers. He also appears regularly as a contributing member of PooranLaw’s biweekly HR Update presentation series, where he regularly provides human resource updates to the sectors he supports.

Prior to joining PooranLaw, Alan articled in the public service, focusing on management side labour and employment law with the Government of Ontario. Before that and while attending the University of Toronto, Faculty of Law, Alan worked as a summer student for a full-service Bay Street law firm. There, Alan engaged in a wide variety of complex litigation matters, providing clients with prompt service to meet their legal needs.

When Alan is not working, he likes to spend time skiing, hiking, and relaxing with a good book and his cat Mishka.

Education:

• J.D., University of Toronto, Faculty of Law, 2018

• A., Major in Political Science, University of Toronto, 2015