Construction-management contracts offer several advantages over the traditional “contract of enterprise”: the client and its professionals benefit from the general contractor’s expertise during the pre-construction stage, the work can be fast-tracked, the parties can avoid the BSDQ in certain cases, etc.
On February 20, 2014, just days before the triggering of a provincial election campaign, Ms. Agnès Maltais, Quebec’s Minister of Employment and Social Solidarity and Minister of Labour, tabled Bill 79 entitled An Act to provide for the restructuring of and make other amendments to municipal defined benefit plans, which is aimed at putting municipal pension plans on a sounder financial footing and ensuring their stability.
On December 3, 2013, Québec’s National Assembly adopted Bill 39, entitled the Voluntary Retirement Savings Plans Act (“Bill 39”). Beginning on July 1, 2014, the government will gradually phase in these new plans, called “VRSPs”, which will give more than two million Quebec workers access to a simple, low-cost retirement savings vehicle.
The opening of a union certification campaign has significant impacts that will have long-term effects in a business, regardless of the outcome. The employer will now have an obligation to recognize the union that is certified as the sole representative of the employees covered by the bargaining unit, and so recognition establishes the framework for the employer’s relationship with employees.
On appeal from the Court of Appeal for New Brunswick: Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada, Local 30 v. Irving Pulp & Paper, Ltd., 2013 SCC 34
In a decision written by Abella and Cromwell JJ., the Court was asked to determine whether Alberta’s Personal Information Protection Act (“PIPA”) infringes a union’s right to freedom of expression.