Catherine is a Partner at the law firm of M. Hamel-Smith & Company. One of the primary
focuses of her practice is labour and employment law. She has significant knowledge and
practical experience in this area, and has represented and advised clients on a wide range of
issues including pre-employment screening, drafting employment contracts, employee
benefits and entitlements, managing performance, promotions, disciplinary investigations
and hearings, redundancy and retrenchment, transfers of business, discrimination and
workplace injury claims.

She is a former tutor at the UWI Faculty of Law and a member of the Employment and Labour
Relations Committee of the TT Chamber. You may also have seen some of her Articles in the
Business Guardian, including:

• Managing marijuana in the workplace
• Workplace health and safety: the laws all employers should know
• Disabilities in the workplace