A CAFLP Webinar:

Covid-19 and the Restaurant Industry: Legal Obstacles and Opportunities

This webinar explored the legal opportunities and obstacles that restaurants and their workers have faced since the onset of Covid-19, and its many lockdowns. Our panelists provided an overview of the regulatory, labour law, and restaurant industry changes that have materialized over the past two years, and this discussion was followed by a Q&A session.

Our panelists included:

• Jessica Cytryn — Lawyer at McCarthy Tétrault, President and Co-Founder of the Montreal Restaurant Workers Relief Fund, Member of the Operations Committee of the Canadian Association for Food Law and Policy, and co-founder of the McGill Food Law Society

• Kaitlin Doucette — Sommelier, Restaurant Worker Advocate and Activist, Co-founder of the Montreal Restaurant Workers Relief Fund & Co-founder of the Canadian Restaurant Worker's Coalition

• Mike MacLellan — Partner at CCPartners specializing in employment, labour and human rights law. Previously in-house Counsel at the Liquor Control Board of Ontario.