LL.M., University of Cambridge, 1982

LL.B., Western University, 1980

• Ontario 1983

Mr. Charney has successfully acted for the following clients:

• A federally regulated transportation undertaking that successfully sought the consolidation of numerous bargaining units into a single bargaining unit (by the Canada Industrial Relations Board)
• An Ontario municipality opposing a union's challenge to the constitutionality of deemed non-construction employer legislation.
• A variety of construction associations seeking to expand or establish accreditation bargaining rights
• A provincial employers' organization, where an arbitrator rejected a union grievance claiming that a number of employers were in violation of the recently increased minimum wage, when their hourly rate fell below the minimum wage but the entire compensation package exceeded it
• A provincial transportation undertaking, where the Ontario Divisional Court was convinced to uphold an arbitration award that sustained the employer's decision to eliminate free transportation passes for the guests of employees
• A provincial transportation undertaking, wherein the Ontario Divisional Court overturned an arbitration award that, if sustained, would have expanded a union's bargaining rights
• A provincial electric power utility at arbitration, establishing the right of an employer to terminate the employment of a unionized employee who underperforms
• A provincial power utility against an unfair labour practice accusation at the Ontario Labour Relations Board with respect to conduct before and during strike activity
• A major pulp and paper producer in a judicial review challenge to an arbitration decision that concluded the employer discriminated when it provided different benefits to employees on long-term disability than to employees under workers’ compensation coverage. The Ontario Divisional Court quashed the arbitrator’s ruling
• An Ontario-based broadcaster at arbitration with respect to a union challenge to a management decision to the effect that an employee with seniority was unqualified for a particular position

• Best Lawyers in Canada: Labour and Employment Law, 2006-2024
• Chambers Canada, Ontario: Employment and Labour (Band 1), Chambers and Partners, 2016-2024
• The Legal 500 Canada: Labour and Employment (Hall of Fame), 2023-2024 
• Recipient of Hall of Fame (highest) ranking by The Legal 500 Canada in the area of Employment & Labour, 2022
• Lexology Client Choice Awards, 2022 and 2013 for Labour & Employment in Canada
• Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory, 2012-2024: recommended in Employment Law (Employer); Labour Relations (Management); Labour Relations - Construction Sector (Management); 2022-2023: recommended in Workplace Human Rights (Employer)
• The Legal 500 Canada: Labour and Employment (Leading Lawyer), 2017-2022
• Chambers Canada, "Employment Lawyer of the Year," 2021
• Who's Who Legal: Canada - Labour, Employment & Benefits 2014-2015, 2020
• Chambers Canada, Nationwide: Employment and Labour (Band 1), Chambers and Partners, 2017-2020 
• Chambers Global, Canada: Employment and Labour (Band 1), Chambers and Partners, 2018
• The International Who’s Who of Management Labour and Employment Lawyers, 2011-2013

• Co-presenter, Vertra Forums:  Practical Workshop for Young Lawyers - The Nuts & Bolts of Construction Law, December 6, 2023, Toronto, ON.
• Co-chair, Vertra Forums Construction Labour & Employment Relations Conference 2023, December 4 and 5, 2023, Toronto, ON.
• "Shifts in Organizing" (panelist), Association of Labor Relations Agencies 71^st Annual Conference, July 17, 2023, Vancouver, BC.
• "When Does Wage Restraint Legislation Breach Canada's Charter of Rights? Can this Question Always be Litigated?" (panelist), National Academy of Arbitrators 2023 Annual Meeting & Education Conference, May 6, 2023, Denver, CO (virtual appearance).
• "The Bill 124 Case and Beyond – Bringing Charter Restraints on Wage Restraints into Focus" (panelist), Queen's University Centre for Law in the Contemporary Workplace, April 14, 2023, Toronto, ON.
• Co-chair, Vertra Forums Construction Labour & Employment Relations Conference 2021, November 30 and December 1, 2021.
• "COVID-19 and International Workplace Implications," American Employment Law Council, October 16, 2020.
• "Expansion of Labor Arbitration and the Role of the Courts," 10th International Labour and Employment Relations Association, June 27, 2020.
• "Bill 66 - Schedule 9:  Restoring Ontario's Competitiveness Act, 2019.  How do we address the outcome?" Vertra Forums Construction Labour & Employment Relations Conference, December 9, 2019.
• "Marijuana in the Workplace," American Employment Law Council, October 24, 2019.

• American Employment Law Council, 2014 to present
• Fellow, The College of Labor and Employment Lawyers (elected 2012)
• Member, Tel Aviv University International Board of Governors, 2017 to present
• Adjunct professor, University of Toronto Faculty of Law, 2006-2015
• Faculty member, Osgoode Hall Law School Graduate Program (instructor in collective bargaining), 2001-2002