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Bettina Burgess is a senior associate in Gowlings’ Waterloo office. Her practice focuses on employment and privacy law.

Bettina advises Canadian businesses, from start up to established, on a wide range of employment and privacy related issues. Bettina assists businesses draft employment or independent consultant contracts, confidentiality and work product agreements, policies, and handbooks. She also advises on methods of reducing employer liability and risk, employment standards statutory compliance, human rights compliance (including accommodation and investigating allegations of discrimination) and how to handle and structure a termination. She has defended wrongful dismissal actions and human rights applications from commencement to resolution through negotiated settlement or hearing.