Labour law

In Quebec, every employee is entitled to a healthy work environment without psychological, unfairly biased or sexual harassment. But what is harassment? Definition The Act respecting labour standards sets out the criteria defining it. We therefore refer to psychological or sexual harassment when a work-related situation involves all these combined characteristics: vexatious behaviour (abusive, humiliating, Read More >>

We often hear about pay equity, but do we really know what it means? The principle of pay equity requires “equal pay for different but equivalent work”. Pay equity is a right for all workers in Quebec, whether they are union members or not. This right is governed by the Pay Equity Act and affects Read More >>