Jessica L. Burke
JESSICA L. BURKE joined Black Gropper as an associate in January 2005 after completing her articles with the firm. She provides legal representation to both public and private sector unions, acting as counsel at the BC and Canada labour boards, and at grievance arbitration hearings. Jessica also provides strategic and policy advice on collective agreement administration, labour, human rights, and privacy law matters.
She has delivered seminars and prepared papers on the following topics:
JESSICA L. BURKE joined Black Gropper as an associate in January 2005 after completing her articles with the firm. She provides legal representation to both public and private sector unions, acting as counsel at the BC and Canada labour boards, and at grievance arbitration hearings. Jessica also provides strategic and policy advice on collective agreement administration, labour, human rights, and privacy law matters.
She has delivered seminars and prepared papers on the following topics:
- hiring and promotion,
- attendance management,
- the duty to accommodate,
- harassment law,
- equality law,
- drafting collective agreements and workplace policies, and
- issues covered by the BC Labour Relations Code
Jessica obtained her undergraduate degree from the University of Toronto, and
her law degree from the University of Victoria. Her law studies included an
exchange into the Civil (French) Law school at the University of Ottawa.
Jessica is a past Chair of the Labour Sub-section of the BC Branch of the Canadian Bar Association, and served on that Sub-section Executive for a number of years. She maintains memberships with the BC CBA's Labour, Human Rights and Privacy Law sub-sections; and with the Canadian Association of Labour Lawyers.