Yinka Oyelowo

Oyeyinka is a civil litigation lawyer with expertise in labour and employment law, working in Toronto, Innisfil and Midland, Ontario. In her broad practice, she has successfully represented clients in judicial review applications, wrongful dismissal claims and human rights applications. Oyeyinka has an impressive record in both the private and public sectors. She is regularly successful obtaining dismissals or resolutions of numerous labour arbitration grievances, various proceedings before the Ontario Labour Relations Board, and many wrongful dismissal cases before the Ontario Superior Court of Justice.

Oyeyinka is a highly skilled advocate and an effective negotiator. She regularly provides advice on various human rights issues including assisting employers with developing workplace policies and assisting with preventing—and appropriately responding to—issues of discrimination, harassment and accessibility in the workplace.

Alongside litigation work, she provides advice to associations, employers and employees, and serves on the board of a civil society organization with consultative status for the health and security of women at the United Nations, Canadian Voice of Women for Peace. Oyeyinka is committed to ensuring workers have a right to a safe and healthy workplace, free from discrimination, harassment, and adverse treatment on the basis of their immutable characteristics, and a right to insist that those conditions be provided to them without fear of retaliation.