Guy Beaulieu had over forty years of human resources and labour relations experience before becoming an arbitrator/mediator; first as a union representative then later as a labour relations consultant in both Ontario and Western Canada. His experience included negotiating and administering collective agreements and advocacy at arbitration, labour board, and workers compensation board hearings. He also represented parties at harassment hearings. Guy’s consulting work also involved general human resources issues including drafting human resources and employee relations policies, participation in job evaluation studies, and job evaluation arbitrations. In addition, Guy’s experience has included serving as a nominee on numerous boards of arbitration (both grievance and interest) as well as for two years serving as a part-time member of the Ontario Crown Employees Grievance Settlement Board. He was also a part of employment insurance appeals at both Board of Referees and umpire hearings. Further, Guy has been a labour relations manager for a large multi-national energy company.
Guy became an independent arbitrator/mediator in 2000. He has since received numerous individual arbitration or mediation appointments and has been named in a number of collective agreements. As a result, he has conducted numerous arbitration or mediation hearings and issued awards in both B.C. and A.B., as well as Federal. In addition, Guy has been appointed to investigate/report and mediate or arbitrate on numerous harassment complaints. Guy is currently arbitrator on the B.C. Collective Agreement Arbitration Bureau Register of Arbitrators, a member of the Arbitrators Association of British Columbia, a member of the British Columbia Industrial Relations Association, and a member of the Northern Alberta Chapter Canadian Industrial Relations Association.
Guy holds a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Political Studies from the University of Guelph. He has also taken a number of courses in the Master of Industrial Relations degree program on a part-time basis at the University of Toronto. This has been followed by numerous shorter courses, workshops, and seminars in arbitration, expedited arbitration, negotiations, labour law, and workers compensation over the past years both as a participant and an instructor.
