The Juste pour rire matter: the Court of Appeal addresses the issue of lifetime employment
April 30, 2024
In an article published on August 2, 2022, “A job for life: Not just for laughs!”, Langlois commented on a decision of the Superior Court of Quebec written by the Honourable J.S.C. Marc Saint-Pierre according to which an employee should be reinstated in his job because he had a job “for life”, despite consistent and unanimous case law that the Superior Court does not have the power to order the reinstatement of an employee in a strictly civil proceeding. However, the Quebec Court of Appeal, in a decision dated February 8, 2024, overturned the Superior Court’s decision and added a few interesting twists.