Kung Law

About

 
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LAWYER

Jason Huang-Kung

Jason pursued the practice of law with the goal of helping people and using the law as a tool for affecting positive social change.

Jason was born and raised in Toronto, Ontario. He is the eldest of three children raised by a single immigrant father. At an early age, Jason joined the workforce to assist his family. After working in the food industry for a number of years, Jason understands the struggles faced by workers in Ontario.

Jason spent his first year of law school at the University of Windsor’s Faculty of Law, a law school focused on access to justice issues faced by Canadians. Jason subsequently transferred to Osgoode Hall Law School to complete his legal studies. While at law school, Jason assisted individuals with their legal matters at the school-affiliated legal clinics: University of Windsor’s Community Legal Aid and Osgoode Hall’s Community & Legal Aid Services Programme.

Jason participated in the Poverty Law Intensive Program in the Workers’ Rights Division at Parkdale Community Legal Services at Osgoode Hall. At Parkdale, Jason represented employees on a wide range of matters involving their employment at the Ontario Labour Relations Board, Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario and the Small Claims Court. Jason was also involved in the unionization of Parkdale’s summer case workers.

After graduating law school, Jason articled at the Canadian National Office of the United Steelworkers, one of Canada’s largest private sector unions. After being called to the Bar, Jason worked as an Associate at Ursel Phillips Fellows Hopkinson LLP where he represented trade unions on a wide range of labour relations matters.

Jason continues to represent workers and unions in his own practice, Kung Law, which is dedicated to enforcing and improving workers’ rights in Ontario and Canada.

 

Education

Osgoode Hall Law School
Juris Doctor

York University
Master of Arts - Socio-Legal Studies

York University
Honours Bachelor of Arts - Criminology/Philosophy

Activities & Affiliations

  • Law Society of Ontario

  • Canadian/Ontario Bar Association

  • Federation of Asian Canadian Lawyers

  • Canadian Association of Labour Lawyers

  • Association of Human Rights Lawyers

  • Chair of the Board of Directors for the
    Chinese and Southeast Asian Legal Clinic

  • Volunteer at Workers’ Action Centre

 
 

Recent Decisions

Vobbalareddy v University of Toronto, 2017 HRTO 650:

  • Achieved summary dismissal of human rights complaint against trade union.  

Kooner v United Steelworkers, Local 5296, 2017 CanLII 41044 (ON LRB):

  • Achieved on the record settlement of duty of fair representation complaint against trade union.

Tharmarajah v Surtco Canada, 2017 HRTO 792:

  • Achieved summary dismissal of human rights complaint.

Kirkland Lake Power Corp v United Steelworkers, Local 2020, 2017 CanLII 83821 (Goodfellow):

  • Succeeded in argument for an item-by-item comparison where the employer unilaterally changed the benefits plan. 

Amalgamated Transit Union, Local 113 v Toronto Transit Commission (Arbitrator Appointment Process), 2018 CanLII 91225 (Stout & Goodfellow):

  • Assisted senior counsel in an interpretation of how the arbitration procedure in the collective agreement works.

Labourers' International Union of North America, Ontario Provincial District Council and its affiliated Local 493 v Stuart Olson Industrial Constructors Inc, 2018 CanLII 73568 (ON LRB):

  • Assisted senior counsel in successfully defending trade union’s work jurisdiction.

Amalgamated Transit Union, Local 113 v Toronto Transit Commission (2018 Interest Arbitration), 2018 CanLII 99135 (Kaplan):

  • Assisted senior counsel in achieving normative wage increases and maintaining significant contracting out protection while also defending the union against regressive employer proposals such as introducing part-time employees in the bargaining unit.

Amalgamated Transit Union, Local 616 v Transit Windsor (New Classification Wage Rate), 2019 CanLII 18268(Kaplan):

  • Achieved highest wage rate in the bargaining unit for a new classification.

Amalgamated Transit Union, Local 113 v Toronto Transit Commission (Customer Service Agent Interest Arbitration), (currently unreported) (Davie):

  • Assisted senior counsel in achieving significant improvements to the terms and conditions of employment for a new classification in the bargaining unit.

BH v Eventing Canada (2020)

  • Succeeded in an Employment Standards Claim against an employer for reprising against employees for inquiring about taking Canada Day off.

Tucker v Loss Prevention Services Ltd., 2020 CanLII 86678 (ON LRB) (Rogers):

  • Succeeded in an Occupational Health and Safety Reprisal matter where an employee was found to have been penalized for, among other things, distributing personal protective equipment to the workers he supervised.

MM v Cellworks Communication East Inc. (2020)

  • Succeeded in an Employment Standards Claim against employer for terminating employee for simply inquiring about wage discrepancies.