The Canadian Association of Counsel to Employers (CACE) will be holding its 7th annual conference in Vancouver on September 23-25, 2010. The conference will take place at the new Fairmont Pacific Rim Hotel in Coal Harbour.

Registration for the conference opens in June 2010; CACE members will be notified by email.

The topics covered in the 2009 conference were:

• Occupational Health and Safety Meeting
• Cross Canada Labour Law Update
• Cross Canada Employment Law Update
• Developments in Occupational Health and Safety
• Labour Relations in Troubled Times
• From the U.S. with Love - Class Actions
• From Canada with Love - Employee Free Choice Act
• Workforce Reductions - Canadian and American Approaches
• Leave Me Alone! - Bullying/Harassment/Violence in the Workplace
• Collective Bargaining and Freedom of Association - Strategies in a Recessionary Environment
• Damages after Keays v. Honda - What Now?

CACE states that is has a membership of over 300 labour and employment lawyers. Membership is open to management side labour and employment lawyers in private practice in Canada and in-house counsel who devote a portion of their practice to labour and employment law issues.