Call
Ontario

Education
University of Toronto, BA
Queen's University, LLB

Profile
Co-leader of the firm's employment services practice, Mary Beth Currie represents management clients. She regularly provides advice about general employment, corporate mergers and acquisitions, restructurings, employee outsourcings, occupational health and safety, workers' compensation, human rights, employment standards, privacy, pay equity, and wrongful dismissal.

Mary Beth articled with the Ministry of the Attorney General and was employed by the Ministry of Labour as Manager of Information and Analysis and Director of Appeals of the Occupational Health and Safety Division. In the latter position, she adjudicated the appeals of inspectors' orders issued pursuant to the Occupational Health and Safety Act.

She writes a column for The Occupational Health and Safety Compliance Report and is a regular contributor to a number of publications including OHS Canada, a leading magazine for safety professionals.

Mary Beth is listed in Best Lawyers in Canada in the specialities of labour and employment law and workers' compensation (health and safety). She also appears annually in The Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory, a guide to the leading law firms and practitioners in Canada as a leading lawyer in the areas of occupational health and safety and as a lawyer who is repeatedly requested for workers' compensation matters. She has received a BV rating (high to very high legal ability, very high ethical standards) from Martindale-Hubbell. Mary Beth wrote the chapter "Duties and Liabilities of Directors Under Employment Laws" in Bennett Jones LLP Directors' Duties in Canada, 4th Edition, published in Canada by CCH Canadian Limited in 2009 (as well as for the 3rd Edition, published in 2006), and contributed the chapter on "Anticipatory Breach in the Employment Context" in the LSUC Special Lectures 2007: Employment Law, published by the Law Society of Upper Canada.