Carly Baker
Associate
Experience
Carly's focus is:
- Advising clients on collective bargaining and labour disputes, including unfair labour practice complaints, duty of fair representation, certification and revocation, and successor and common employer applications;
- Representing clients in grievance arbitrations and labour board proceedings;
- Advising clients regarding termination, wrongful dismissal, restrictive covenants, employee fiduciary duties, occupational health and safety complaints, and employment standards; and
- Representing clients in employment-related litigation.
Carly has appeared before all levels of Court in Alberta, as well as before the Alberta Labour Relations Board and Saskatchewan Labour Relations Board.
Recent cases
- Successfully resisted a certification application. General Teamsters, Local Union No. 362 v Elbow Grease Management Ltd, 2024 ALRB 69
- Successfully applied for certification after establishing that an existing employee association was not a valid trade union. Association of School and College Employees, Local No. 601 v The King’s University and The King’s University Employee Association, 2024 ALRB 62
- Successfully applied for a reconsideration of a Board decision finding a breach of a union's duty of fair representation. Abay v Retail, Health Care and Service Employees Union, CLAC Local 301, 2024 ALRB 22
- Successfully applied for a successorship declaration. Construction Workers Union, Clac Local 151 v Technical Workforce Inc. and Woodland Constructors Ltd., 2023 CanLII 97985 (SK LRB)
Community involvement
Carly is a volunteer lawyer for Pro Bono Law Alberta.
Professional involvement
Corporate roles
Carly is a member of the Board of Directors of Digital Alberta and the Alberta Collaborative Resolution Association.
Professional associations
- Member, Law Society of Alberta
- Member, Canadian Bar Association
- Member, Calgary Bar Association
- Member, The Advocates’ Society
Representative work
Brookfield Infrastructure Partners L.P's $6.8 billion acquisition of Inter Pipeline Ltd.
Counsel to Inter Pipeline Ltd. in its acquisition by Brookfield Infrastructure Partners L.P pursuant to a statutory plan of arrangement for $6.8 billion.
Precedent-setting securities law decision
Successfully represented Inter Pipeline Ltd. (IPL) in a precedent-setting case before the Alberta Securities Commission. The case addressed Brookfield Infrastructure Partners L.P.'s use of total return swaps in its takeover bid of IPL. The decision is the first time that a Canadian securities regulator has directly addressed the use of total return swaps within the context of takeover bids following the changes to the Canadian takeover bid regime in 2016. (Re Bison Acquisition Corp., 2021 ABASC 100).
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
July 25, 2022
The Supreme Court maintains that there is no ceiling to delay in administrative proceedings
October 11, 2021