Shandra Czarnecki

Shandra provides practical advice and assistance to clients on all matters relating to labour and employment law, including:

• Negotiation, drafting, interpretation and application of collective agreements
• Negotiation and drafting of employment agreements
• Drafting, implementation and enforcement of workplace policies
• Disciplinary matters and terminations
• Compensation and benefit matters
• Labour and employment matters relating to corporate restructuring, downsizing and acquisitions
• Human rights matters, including discrimination, accommodation and harassment
• Employment standards matters
• Workplace safety and health and workers compensation matters

She represents employers before arbitration boards, human rights commissions and tribunals, labour boards, workers compensation tribunals and Manitoba courts.

• Executive Member, Executive Committee, Winnipeg Chamber of Commerce (Winnipeg)
• Member, Board of Directors, Canadian Association of Counsel to Employers (2013-2015)
• Co-chair, Professions Division, United Way (Winnipeg, 2013-2015)
• Member, The Law Society of Manitoba
• Member, Manitoba Bar Association
• Member, Canadian Bar Association

• Moderator, “Reconciliation: How We Can Do Better,” Canadian Association of Counsel to Employers (August 2020)
• Presenter, Annual Indigenous HR Conference, Legacy Bowes (April 2019)
• Presenter, Annual Manitoba Labour Law Review, Centre for Labour Management Development  (present)
• Presenter, Annual Accommodation Update, Centre for Labour Management Development (present)
• Presenter, Annual Legislative Review, CPHR Manitoba (Manitoba, present)
• Presenter, “Medical Marijuana in the Workplace,” Entrepreneurs’ Organization Winnipeg (Winnipeg, March 2017)
• Presenter, “Avoiding Costly Wrongful Dismissal Claims,” Annual Conference, Canadian Association of Counsel to Employers (2015)
• Presenter, “Sexual Harassment in the Workplace,” HRMAM (March 2015)
• Presenter, “Mental Disabilities: Duty to Accommodate, Duty to Inquire and Privacy Considerations,” Rehabilitation Return to Work Partnership (March 2014)
• “Corporate Immigration and Cross Border Issues or How to Avoid the Immigration Blacklist” (April 2011)
• “Employer Overtime Exposure Due to After Hours Employee BlackBerry Use,” Upword (December 2010)

• Recognized in the 2025 edition (and since 2009) of the Best Lawyers in Canada (Labour and Employment Law)
• Recognized in the 2025 edition (and since 2018) of the Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory (Employment (Employer), Labour (Management))
• Recognized in the 2025 edition of the Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory (Workplace Human Rights (Employer))
• Recognized in the 2013 edition of Lexpert Rising Stars
• Recognized in the 2013 edition of Lexpert Magazine (Leading Lawyer Under 40)
• A.J. Christie Prize for highest standing (Advocacy)
• Dean’s Honour List, Faculty of Law
• Solomon Greenberg Prize for 1^st Place in Moot Court Competition