Lisa Cabel

With 20 years of experience, Lisa Cabel was recruited by KPMG Law LLP in 2020 to add labour and employment experience to their legal service offerings. The practice has since grown under her leadership to include additional partners, associates, support staff, and the build out of a pay equity practice, forced labour service offering and workplace investigations business in collaboration with the firm’s Forensic Investigations practice.

Lisa is a trusted adviser to clients relating to labour, employment, human rights, and pay equity and is seen as a practical, solution-oriented lawyer who has a keen sense of business needs as they are balanced with legal compliance. She works with a diverse array of clients across all industries, from start-ups and family businesses to large-cap public and private sector employees and companies. She also specializes in and provides legal advice to clients around collective agreement interpretation and negotiation, collective bargaining, employee discipline and terminations, wrongful dismissal claims, health and safety, harassment, and workplace policies and investigations.

She has a particular expertise in human rights and has published the Ontario Litigator's Guide to Human Rights Practice, which is in its second edition, as well as a series of significant thought leadership pieces in response to employment issues. She is a frequent conference speaker with expertise in Human Rights, Pay Equity and Bill S-211 relating to Canada’s new Modern Slavery laws.

Professional and Industry Experience

• Labour, employment & human rights, employment advice and litigation and occupational health and safety and workers compensation
• Lead negotiator in dozens of collective bargaining negotiations ranging from industries in manufacturing, logistics, healthcare and retail
• Regularly represent clients in arbitrations relating to dismissals, policy grievances and individual grievances relating to collective bargaining interpretation
• Acted for an international automotive manufacturer seeking an injunction against unionized employees
• Acted for a subsidiary of one of the largest international software development companies to successfully defendagainst an allegedconstructive dismissal
• Acted for a national consumer products company in arbitration, further to which the just cause termination of an employee was upheld
• Acted for numerous respondents, and entities within the public and health care sectors in defending against claims of discrimination
• Regularly oversee pay equity compliance for both federally and provincially regulated companies in the private and public sector
  

Professional Leadership, Industry Recognition & Community Engagement

• Board of Directors, the Breakfast Club of Canada
• Member - ReferToHer Female Lawyers Referral Program
• Co-Chair, GTA KPMG Network of Women (KNoW)
• 1 Year Ranked, Leading Employment and Labour Lawyers Chambers Canada 2023
• Ranked as a leading Employment and Labour Lawyer by Chambers in 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025 (Band 4)
• Recognized in Best Lawyers, Fall 2024
• Recognized in the Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory in Employment & Labour Law, Lexpert 2023
• Mentor in Women-in-CFL Program – Team: Toronto Argos
• Previously Elected Member of Ontario Bar Association, Employment & Labour Session
  

Recent publications and speaking engagements

• Co-Author. Cabel, L. (2025). “Tribunal Affirms the Remedies can be Pursued in Multiple Forums”
• Co-Author. Cabel, L. (2025). “Termination Clauses in Ontario”
• Co-Author. Cabel, L. (2025). “Modern Slavery Reporting for 2025”
• Co-Author. Cabel, L. (2025). “The More the Merrier on Pay Equity Committees”
• Co-Author. Cabel, L. (2024). “Impact of Artificial Intelligence in the Workplace”
• Co-Author. Cabel, L. (2024). “Ontario Court of Appeal rules TTC Act Unconstitutional”.
• Co-Author. Cabel, L. (2024). “10 Predictions: The Future of Workforce Law” KPMG Global
• Author. Cabel, L. (2023) “Bill 149 – Working for Workers Four Act, 2023” KPMG in Canada.
• Interview. Cabel, L. (2023). “Salary disclosures on job postings a step forward in pay equity” CTV News.
• Co-Author. Cabel, L. (2023). “Has the Federal Pay Equity Act helped to close Canada’s gender pay gap?” BenefitsCanada.com.
• Co-Author. Cabel, L. (2023). “Going long: The top 10 considerations for employers moving to permanent hybrid working”, KPMG Canada Blog.
• Author. Cabel, L. (2021-2024). “Getting the Deal Through: Employment & Labour”, Lexology.
• Co-Author. Cabel, L. (2023). “Mental health challenges continue to evolve in the COVID-19 pandemic”, KPMG in Canada.
• Speaker. Cabel, L (2022). “Human Rights-Based Approaches to Data”, HR Management Institute Canada.
• Co-Author. Cabel, L (2022). “Managing Languishing and Beyond: Accommodating Employee Mental Health in the Workplace”, Canadian HR Reporter.
• Interview. Cabel, L. (2022). “Have Covid-19?”, CTV News.
• Speaker. Cabel, L. (2022/3). International Women’s Day Event, KPMG in Canada.
• E-Book Co-Author. Cabel, L. (2021). “A Hybrid Workplace Guide”, KPMG in Canada.
• Interview. Cabel, L. (2021). “Strong Relationships, Strong Foundation for Success”, Slaw
• Interview. Cabel, L. (2021). “Majority of Canadians questioning employers' ability to handle hybrid work model”, BenefitsCanada.com.
• Co-Author. Cabel, L. (2020). “The new face of the workplace”, Impact Lawyers Magazine.
• Author. Cabel, L. (2020). “Ontario Litigator's Guide to Human Rights Practice”, 2nd. Ed.