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On April 19, 2024 the Supreme Court of Canada rendered the decision Société des casinos du Québec inc. v. Association des cadres de la Société des casinos du Québec, 2024 SCC 13 which deals with the freedom of association protected by section 2(d) of the Canadian Charter and section 3 of the Québec Charter. This decision identifies the legal framework applicable to any claim based on freedom of association, whether the claim at issue is a so-called positive or negative claim. In applying this framework, the Supreme Court determined in this matter that the freedom of association of the Association des cadres de la Société des casinos du Québec and its members was not compromised by the employer, the Société des casinos du Québec inc. The Court thus allowed the appeals before it.

On May 9, 2024, the Minister responsible for Infrastructure tabled Bill 62, An Act mainly to diversify the acquisition strategies of public bodies and to offer them more agility in carrying out their infrastructure projects (“Bill 62”).

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.

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”).

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”).

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 […]