From January 2015 until the Fall of 2025, Allison served as a Vice-Chair of the Canada Industrial Relations Board, guiding the resolution of some of the country’s most complex labour relations matters. She brings deep, hands-on expertise in adjudicating complaints, applications, and appeals under the Canada Labour Code, overseeing cases involving fair representation, unfair labour practices, reprisals, certification and decertification applications, employment standards, and appeals of workplace health and safety decisions.

Allison has heard cases and issued decisions spanning nearly every federally-regulated sector, airports and air transportation, rail, inter-provincial trucking, grain storage and distribution, telecommunications, activities in Canada’s territories, broadcasting, mining, stevedoring, shipping and navigation, banking, First Nations undertakings, and the federal public service.

Prior to her appointment as a Vice-Chair, Allison served as Senior Legal Counsel to Canada Post Corporation where, from 2007 to 2015, she practised labour, employment, human rights and pension law, and worked at a senior level leading, managing and facilitating solutions to challenging labour relations issues.

Allison began her legal career in 2002, focusing largely on provincially-regulated industries including health care, manufacturing, government and municipalities, education, fire services, policing and intra-provincial transport. She looks forward to resuming her interest and involvement in these sectors.

Allison is an active volunteer, both within the community in which she resides and with the Bernese Mountain Dog Club of Canada. She also mentors law students and newly-called lawyers. Beyond her professional work, Allison enjoys travelling; kayaking; playing and watching soccer; reading; furniture restoration and spending time training, breeding and competing in sporting events with her Bernese Mountain Dogs.