Management Lawyers

Ryan co-chairs, with Landon Young, the firm’s Occupational Health and Safety Practice Group.  His experience includes:

• advising and acting for employers and individuals charged with contraventions of the Occupational Health and Safety Act
• assisting employers with a range of workers’ compensation issues
• litigation before the WSIB and WSIAT, claims management, independent operator issues and revenue matters
• assisting employers in obtaining the work permits required for cross-border hiring of employees in a wide range of occupational groups (e.g. executive, professional, managerial, sales/service) on both a permanent and temporary basis.
• assisting with inter-company transfers of employees from corporate branches located outside Canada
• assisting with transfers under NAFTA (The North American Trade Agreement) and GATS (Goods Agreement on Trade in Services)

Ryan is a frequent speaker and writer and has given speeches to a number of employers, safe workplace associations, and human resource groups on a wide range of Occupational Health and Safety and Workers’ Compensation issues.  He is a member of the Board of Advisors for the Safety Compliance Insider.  He is an Adjunct Professor at University of Western Ontario teaching Workplace Health, Safety and Compensation Law.

Publications

• Ryan writes the Law and Policy column for Accident Prevention, the magazine produced by the Industrial Accident Prevention Association, the largest health and safety organization in the province
• Co-author with Landon Young, A CLV Special Report “Managing OH&S Inspections and Search Warrants”
• Co-author of the Special Report for Canadian Labour Views,  “Corporate and Organizational Liability for OH&S Under Bill C-45” and co-author of “OH&S Due Diligence In Ontario: A Practical Guide”
• Co-author of The Employer’s Health & Safety Manual – Ontario, Carswell