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April 10th, 2025

Amendments to certain labour standards: what should federally regulated employers expect?

Nearly seven years ago, the federal government’s Budget Implementation Act, 2018, No. 2 introduced new provisions to the Canada Labour Code applicable to federally regulated employers, aimed at legislating on equal treatment and temporary help agencies. As of today, these provisions are not yet in force and await their effective date, which will be set by an order of the Governor in Council. On February 22, 2025, the federal government published draft regulations amending, among other things, the Canada Labour Standards Regulations, to support the eventual implementation of the new Code provisions. In this article, we outline the main changes to the Code, as well as the proposed new amendments to the Regulations.

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April 7th, 2025

Federal election 2025: what Canadian employers need to know

With the federal election fast approaching, Canadian employers must adapt to comply with the provisions of the Canada Elections Act. Here’s a summary of the rules that apply on that day, when every Canadian citizen aged 18 and over on polling day will be called upon to vote.

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March 27th, 2025

Law 5: A new paradigm in health and social services information governance (part II)

When Law 5, the Act respecting health and social services information, came into force, we outlined its scope in our first article. In this second article, we will examine the similarities between Law 5 and the Act respecting the protection of personal information in the private sector and the Act respecting Access to documents held by public bodies and the Protection of personal information, as well as the new requirements introduced by Law 5.

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March 24th, 2025

Bill 89: balancing the right to strike or lock-out with the needs of the population

In February, the Minister of Labour tabled Bill 89, An Act to give greater consideration to the needs of the population in the event of a strike or lock-out, in the Québec National Assembly. The bill aims to mitigate the repercussions of labour disputes on the Québec economy by amending the Labour Code, among other things.

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March 14th, 2025

Workplace accommodation: not just a one-way obligation for employers

Recently, in Syndicat des professionnelles et professionnels en milieu scolaire du Nord-Ouest (SPPMSNO) et Commission scolaire crie (L. O.), arbitrator Éric-Jan Zubrzycki rendered an interesting ruling on the employer’s duty to accommodate for medical reasons and the worker’s duty to cooperate in the process.

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March 11th, 2025

Update on low-wage LMIA applications in Québec and the list of occupations eligible for the facilitated process

The Minister of Immigration, Francization and Integration recently announced the extension until November 30, 2025, of the measure to stop processing certain low-wage (less than $32.96/hr) Labour Market Impact Assessment (LMIA) applications under the Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP)