Allison served as a Vice-Chair of the Canada Industrial Relations Board from January, 2015 until the Fall of 2025.

While serving as Vice-Chair, Allison gained extensive experience considering complaints, applications and appeals. In this role, she was responsible for the adjudication of a wide range of matters covered by the Canada Labour Code. This included complaints addressing the duty of fair representation, unfair labour practices and reprisals; applications considering certification, decertification, single employer and sale of business; employment standards matters and appeals of “no danger” decisions issued by a health and safety officer.

Allison has heard cases and issued decisions across a broad range of federally regulated industrial sectors, including, airports and air transportation, rail, inter-provincial trucking and transport, grain storage and distribution, telecommunications, certain public and private sector activities in Canada’s territories, broadcasting, mining, stevedoring, shipping and navigation, banking, First Nations undertakings, and matters pertaining to the federal public service.

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

Allison began her legal career in 2002 focussed 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.

She was born and raised in the (then) small, rural village of Beeton, Ontario (now part of the Town of New Tecumseth) located in Simcoe County.

Allison is an active member of the community in which she now resides, mentors law students and newly called lawyers and regularly volunteers for the Bernese Mountain Dog Club of Canada.

In her spare time, Allison enjoys traveling; kayaking; competing in sporting events with and breeding her Bernese Mountain Dogs; playing and watching soccer; reading for pleasure and refinishing old furniture.