Portage Legal Services is Jonathan Chapnick (he/him). Jon works with organizations that want to be good employers. He helps them do that.

Jon is a practicing lawyer and chartered HR professional. His areas of expertise include labour relations, workplace investigations, discrimination and accommodation, HR policy, and workplace mental health and substance use.

Jon is also a trained mediator and is on the roster of investigators established by the Canadian government to investigate occurrences of harassment and violence in federally-regulated workplaces. Outside of Portage, he is an adjunct professor at UBC, and is a member of BC’s Employment Standards Tribunal and Patient Care Quality Review Board.