Gabriel Hoogers
Lawyer
- Location:
Ottawa
- Phone:
613-482-2455
- Fax:
613-235-3041
- Email:
Biography
Gabe Hoogers believes in the power of unions to make workplaces and societies more just, and that every worker deserves a fair shake when it comes to their livelihood. It’s a conviction he’s held since he was a kid standing with his teachers on the picket line, and one that keeps him motivated as a lawyer dedicated to supporting unions and workers in their pursuit of workplace justice.
Gabe represents workers and unions across a wide range of workplaces and workplace issues. His practice spans grievance and interest arbitration, human rights and accommodation law, duty of fair representation matters, whistleblower complaints, unfair labour practices, professional discipline and regulatory matters, and judicial review. In that work he has litigated before arbitrators, labour boards, tribunals, and courts in provincial and federal jurisdictions. His clients include healthcare workers, faculty and staff at Ontario’s colleges and universities, federal public servants, workers across the broader public sector and private sector, and non-unionized employees.
Gabe is a co-author of Trade Union Law in Canada, a leading resource in the field, contributing to the chapters on duty of fair representation, trade union human rights liability, and religious exemptions. He also writes and presents regularly on grievance arbitration and workplace law developments, for clients and at legal conferences.
Before becoming a lawyer, Gabe was president of his student union, where he organized a successful boycott in support of a non-unionized worker on campus. He was a national and regional representative in the Canadian student movement. At McGill’s Faculty of Law, he volunteered at numerous legal clinics and researched international labour rights as a research assistant.
Outside the office, Gabe likes to run and hike for unreasonably long distances, and is learning to play ice hockey, usually on the ice with a bunch of retirees. He unwinds with action movies, a good local IPA, and the occasional debate about administrative law principles with his spouse, whom he met in law school.