Québec solidaire hopes to see its bill adopted which modernizes the anti-scab provisions of the Labor Code, specifying that they include telework.
Posted at 2:27 p.m.
A bill to this effect has just been tabled by the Member for Hochelaga-Maisonneuve, Alexandre Leduc, who hopes to obtain the consent so that it can be quickly debated and adopted, especially since it counts only one item.
The bill provides that the famous concept of “establishment of the employer”, in the context of a strike or lockout, extends to any place where the duties of an employee who is union on strike or locked out. It specifies that this place may in particular be the one where teleworking takes place.
MP Leduc believes that “jurisprudence has changed sides” since the judgment of the Administrative Labor Tribunal in the case of the Ash Grove cement plant in Joliette and the Unifor union and that the provisions must now be modernized to adapt them to reality. telework.
For his part, the Quebec director of Unifor, Renaud Gagné, judges that proceeding by law is “the easiest way to correct the situation”, otherwise the case risks dragging on in the courts. Moreover, the case of Unifor and the Joliette cement plant has been appealed and this appeal has not yet been heard.