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, and an arbitrator on the list of arbitrators of the Canadian Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service. He is a Mediator-Arbitrator of the Ontario Grievance Settlement Board. He was formerly a Vice-Chair of the Ontario Labour Relations Board (1994 to 2017) and of the Grievance Settlement Board (2008 to 2017).

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.