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Publications

January 25th, 2019

Municipalities and Additional Work: Formalism Is Essential!

In a judgment rendered on January 11, 2019 (Ville de Saguenay v. Construction Unibec Inc., 2019 QCCA 38), the Quebec Court of Appeal restated the principle that a municipality acts by a resolution of its council or by adopting a bylaw, and indicated that contractors should be prudent when the scope of work pursuant to […]

Workshops and conferences

January 24th, 2019

Symposium 2019 - Labour & Employment Law

This symposium is only available in French. For further details, click here.

Publications

January 21st, 2019

Reminder to Employers: New Labour Standards Came into Force on January 1, 2019

On June 12, 2018 Quebec’s Labour Standards Act was updated by the coming into force of an initial phase of the provisions of Bill 176, entitled An Act to amend the Act respecting labour standards and other legislative provisions mainly to facilitate family-work balance, as reported by our colleagues Marianne Plamondon and André Sasseville in […]

Publications

January 15th, 2019

The Additional Hypothec – Purpose and Scope

For several years now, in both commercial and personal financings, financial institutions and private lenders have added a clause to their loan agreements providing for an additional hypothec over and above the principal hypothec provided for in the agreement. This is now a well-established practice in Quebec. It should first of all be noted that, […]

Workshops and conferences

January 14th, 2019

Construction law: major decisions in 2018

This page is only available in French. For further details, click here.

Publications

January 11th, 2019

New Rules on Staff Training for Cannabis Retail Sales and Information to Provide to Consumers

The Government of Quebec has recently enacted the Regulation respecting training on the retail sale of cannabis and information to be communicated to a purchaser in the course of a cannabis sale. This regulation describes, among other things, the guiding principles surrounding the sale of cannabis and the main elements of the training that Société […]