Yola Grant is an ethical, incisive and engaged facilitator of workplace dispute resolution
Experience
• for 30 years, spanning public service and private practice, Yola was exposed to every aspect of labour, employment and human rights law;
• as Associate Chair (adjudicative lead) at the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario, decided significant age and citizenship discrimination cases (Talos and Haseeb);
• as a mediator, trainer and neutral investigator for over a decade, conducted 40 investigations in unionized workplaces (including universities, hospitals, community service organizations, correctional facilities, and in complex medical, engineering and industrial environments);
• served as a union sides-person in grievance arbitration for nurses and neutral investigator and mediator of member-member disputes in a large public service union;
• represented employees, union members and management of non-profit community agencies and advocated before tribunals and all levels of courts, including the Supreme Court of Canada; and,
• for decades, volunteered on numerous boards of charities and non-profits to address violence against women, children's rights, domestic workers’ rights, poverty, social housing and anti-racism.
Education & Qualifications
Certified Arbitrator & Mediator (1996), Arbitration & Mediation Institute of Ontario; Call to the Ontario Bar (1989), LL.B from Osgoode Hall Law School, M.Sc. (Physical Chemistry) from the University of Toronto, B.Sc. (Major – Chemistry; Minor – Mathematics), cum laude