Alanna Wiercinski
Associate
Experience
Alanna's focus is on
- Advising employees and employers on termination, wrongful dismissal, restrictive covenants, employee fiduciary duties, hiring, practices, employment standards, human rights, and privacy
- Review, drafting and developing personnel policies and practices
- Drafting employment, independent contractor and consulting agreements
- Assisting in all aspects of wrongful dismissal and employment termination
- Representing employees and employers in employment-related litigation
Professional involvement
Professional associations
- Member, Law Society of Alberta
- Member, Canadian Bar Association
- Member, Calgary Bar Association
Representative work
Historic settlement in workplace sexual misconduct class action against City of Leduc
Counsel for plaintiff class in successful settlement agreement with the City of Leduc for systemic sexual abuse, harassment, and assault against female city employees, including firefighters. Terms of settlement include the highest per-person monetary compensation in a Canada class action settlement for workplace misconduct. The per-person settlement amounts combined with the non-adversarial claims process, non-monetary remedies, and the lengthy claimant eligibility time period, arguably makes this settlement the most progressive workplace class action settlement in Canadian history. This is the first settlement of a class action involving sexual misconduct and sexual assault in a fire department or municipality in Canada. The individual compensation in this settlement exceeds that provided by Canada’s most notable workplace harassment class action settlements to date. This settlement was approved by the Court on July 4, 2023.
Awards
Recent honours and recognition
BD&P Employment & Labour Group named 2023 Reader's Choice in the Employment & Labour Law – Full Service Firm category by Canadian HR Reporter
Publications
March 26, 2021