Natasha is dedicated to advancing the rights of workers. She practices in the areas of labour, construction labour, professional regulation, human rights, employment and constitutional law. She provides thoughtful and strategic legal advice and representation to trade unions, associations and individual workers in all manners of workplace disputes. Whether she is negotiating or litigating, Natasha works tirelessly to achieve favourable and effective results for her clients.
Natasha regularly advises and represents trade unions in a broad range of labour and construction labour matters, including union organizing drives, rights arbitration, pay equity, occupational health and safety issues and collective bargaining. She has appeared before courts, administrative tribunals and Colleges regulating professionals in the education and healthcare sectors.
She is a fierce advocate for racial and gender equity in the workplace and has particular expertise in sensitive and complex matters that engage the Human Rights Code and issues relating to discrimination, harassment and accommodation.
Natasha joined Cavalluzzo in 2024 after practicing at other union-side labour firms in Toronto where she gained experience working with both private-sector and public-sector unions across a broad range of industries.
Natasha graduated magna cum laude from the Dual J.D. program at the University of Windsor Faculty of Law and the University of Detroit Mercy School of Law in the top 10% of her class. She was called to the Bar in Ontario in 2020.
Notable matters that Natasha has been involved in, include:
- Working Families Ontario v. Ontario, 2021 ONSC 4076;
- Working Families Coalition (Canada) v Ontario (Attorney General) 2023 ONCA 139;
- Metrolinx v Amalgamated Transit Union, 2022 ONSC 4828
- Employee Representative Counsel for former employees of Sears Entities Canada in its CCAA proceedings