Steven B. Katkin

Full-time Board member

Steven B. Katkin is a practising lawyer and has extensive experience in labour and employment law, including industrial relations, labour standards, health and safety, human rights, collective bargaining, constitutional and Charter of Rights issues, pay and employment equity, and privacy issues, particularly in employee and labour relations. He has litigated before arbitration boards, labour relations boards and administrative tribunals in both federal and provincial jurisdictions.

Mr. Katkin holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Carleton University and a Licence en Droit (LL.L.) from Université Laval. Called to the Quebec Bar in 1973, he is a member of the Lord Reading Law Society, where he has served as president, and the International Society for Labour Law and Social Security. From 1999-2008, he was a member of the bar of Montreal’s Liaison Committee with the Quebec Labour Court and subsequently the Quebec Labour Relations Commission. He has been an appointed member of the Disciplinary Council of the Quebec Bar Association since 2002. Mr. Katkin was appointed as a part-time member of the Public Service Labour Relations Board on April 22, 2010 for a period of five years. He was subsequently reappointed as a full-time Board member on September 1, 2011 for a period of five years.