About Chris Albertyn

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Chris Albertyn settled in Canada in 1993. He has been an arbitrator, mediator and facilitator of workplace disputes since 1985. He is an arbitrator on the Ontario Labour Minister's list of arbitrators kept by the Ontario Office of Arbitration. He was appointed a Vice-Chair of the Ontario Labour Relations Board in October 1994 and has held the position since then. In 1997, he was appointed Chair of the Ontario Education Relations Commission and the Colleges Relations Commission. He was appointed a Member of the federal Public Service Labour Relations Board in 2007 and he is an arbitrator on the list of arbitrators of the Canadian Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service. He was appointed a Vice-Chair of the Ontario Grievance Settlement Board in 2008.

Prior to taking residence in Canada, Chris Albertyn lived in South Africa. He is a graduate of the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (B.A. Honours), the University of South Africa (B.Proc.) and the University of Natal, Durban (LL.B.). He was the founding Director of the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies of the Law School of the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban. He practised law during the period 1977 to 1988, when he became a full-time mediator / arbitrator. He is on arbitration panels in Canada and South Africa.

He is the co-author of Alcohol, Drugs and Employment (Juta). He wrote the section on South Africa in International Labour and Employment Law (BNA Books), and has written several articles on labour law.