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April 30th, 2024

The Juste pour rire matter: the Court of Appeal addresses the issue of lifetime employment

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.

Publications

April 29th, 2024

New Regulation respecting the handling of complaints and the resolution of disputes in the financial sector: towards a standardization of practices

On February 15, the Autorité des marchés financiers (the “AMF”) published the final version of the new Regulation respecting the handling of complaints and the resolution of disputes in the financial sector (the “Regulation”).

Publications

April 26th, 2024

Bill 22: New approaches to compensation for expropriated property owners

On May 25, 2023, Ms. Geneviève Guilbault, Quebec’s Minister of Transport and Sustainable Mobility, tabled Bill 22, An Act respecting expropriation, which was adopted and came into force on December 29, 2023 (the “New Act”).

Publications

April 5th, 2024

Needed guidance from the Court of Appeal on the question of the quasi-constitutional protection of parental status in Québec

Introduction In this matter, the Canadian Union of Public Employees (the “Union”), which represents bus drivers and related services employees employed by the Réseau de transport de Longueuil (the “Employer”), alleged, through a group grievance, that a provision of the collective agreement concerning the granting of attendance credits discriminated against employees who had taken maternity […]

Publications

March 27th, 2024

Bug in the Bot: Businesses’ Liability for False or Misleading Representations by Their Chatbots – A Québec Perspective (Part I)

Do you use chatbots to provide services to your customers or employees? Or are you thinking about implementing one? If so, you have come to the right place. In this multi-part series, we explore the key legal considerations of setting up and maintaining a chatbot. Up first: our commentary of a recent decision in British […]

Publications

March 22nd, 2024

Trademark owners: Get ready for the changes to the Charter of the French language – update

On January 10, 2024, the Government of Québec published a Draft Regulation under the Charter of the French Language (the “Charter”), which clarifies certain changes to signage exceptions involving trademarks in languages other than French. This article seeks to clarify certain issues raised in two of our previous articles on this topic: “Trademark owners: Get […]