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A partner in the Firm's Waterloo Region office, Ms. Gupta practises in the area of litigation, with an emphasis on employment and human rights matters. Ms. Gupta also has a wide variety of experience in matters involving the Ontario Human Rights Code, the Pay Equity Act and the Ontario Employment Standards Act. Ms. Gupta has handled complex and lengthy civil litigation, and regularly appears before all levels of the Ontario courts, as well as numerous administrative tribunals.
Ms. Gupta also assists employers in reviewing or drafting employment contracts, policy manuals and compensation plans. She routinely provides training to management on a wide variety of employment topics, such as "How to Hire and Fire without Tears,” ”What do you do when you have a complaint of harassment" and "Accommodation under the Human Rights Code." Ms. Gupta has assisted a number of U.S.-based and European clients establish or expand business operations in Canada.
Called to the Ontario Bar in 1989, Ms. Gupta received her LLB from Queen's University and received her LLM from the University of Toronto in 1993. Prior to joining Gowlings, Ms. Gupta practiced 15 years with a major Toronto law firm.
Ms. Gupta has spoken on a wide variety of employment and litigation topics for the Law Society of Upper Canada, the Canadian and Ontario Bar Associations, Insight Conferences, Human Resources Professionals Association of Ontario (HRPAO) and the Canadian Association of Family Enterprises (CAFE). She has developed and taught courses on employment and human rights at Seneca College and the Faculties of Law of Queen's University and the University of Toronto.
A prolific author, Ms. Gupta recently published Sexual Harassment: A Guide to Conducting Investigations (Butterworths – LexisNexis) and served as the Legal Reviewer for Human Resources PolicyPro (Ontario edition).
Ms. Gupta is very active in the community. She currently serves on the board of directors of the Indo-Canada Chamber of Commerce and the Nomination Committee of the YWCA (Kitchener-Waterloo). She was appointed by the Attorney-General of Ontario as a governor of the Law Commission of Ontario, which focuses on law reform. In 2002, she was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II's Golden Jubilee medal in recognition of her service to the legal profession and the community at large.
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