Turnpenney Milne

Turnpenney Milne LLP is a boutique law firm practicing exclusively in the area of Workplace Law.

Workplace Law encompasses most facets of the employment relationship from the pre-hiring stage to the cessation of employment, whether due to termination, resignation or retirement. Turnpenney Milne LLP offers a unique perspective drawing from its partners’ experience on both the management and employee sides. We seek to provide our clients with a pragmatic, balanced perspective that is highly results and service oriented. While we won’t shy away from initiating legal proceedings, where necessary, we always seek to see if there is a resolution that will be beneficial to our clients before taking those steps.

Turnpenney Milne LLP is regularly retained to conduct external and independent workplace investigations in both public and private sector organizations both provincially and federally regulated. Depending on the terms of our mandate, we are retained to make findings of fact, engage in an application of an organization’s applicable policies and/or the legal framework, and make recommendations arising from those findings.

The subject matter of the investigations we conduct is varied and includes allegations of harassment, including sexual harassment, human rights related and personal harassment as well as discrimination. We are also regularly retained to investigate general allegations of misconduct including conflicts of interest, fraudulent behavior, Code of Conduct violations and the like.

At Turnpenney Milne LLP, our investigation philosophy is that while we are a neutral third party, we remain mindful of the overall impact an investigation has on a workplace. We recognize that investigations are, by nature, difficult for employees to experience. We operate with an eye to minimizing further detrimental impact on the workplace that can come as a result of the allegations that led to our retainer and/or our findings.