It will soon be a year since the Quebec legislature adopted the Act respecting the regulation of child labour, sponsored by Minister Jean Boulet. Has it achieved its objectives? Yes, says Boulet in an interview with The Canadian Press.
A group of bereaved family members gathered before the Notre-Dame-des-Neige Cemetery in Montreal Sunday to protest its ongoing closure, the result of a contentious workers strike. The strike, which began in September 2022, has shuttered the gates and postponed in-ground burials, meaning hundreds of bodies remain in cold storage as the battle between management and the CSN union continues.
- Bill 59, An Act to modernize the occupational health and safety regime: Institute mandatory supervision of engineering works to improve prevention on construction sites. -
To better prevent the risk of accidents in workplaces, the Ordre des ingénieurs du Québec (OIQ) recommends that MNAs expand Bill 59, An Act to modernize the occupational health and safety regime to include new mechanisms for supervising the work done on engineering structures. The OIQ shares Minister Boulet s aim of increasing risk prevention in workplaces. It is in this spirit that we recommend making work supervision mandatory. Supervision would not only benefit the quality and durability of structures and the environment, but also help reduce work accidents on construction sites and in industrial workplaces, commented OIQ President Kathy Baig, Eng., MBA, ASC.
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Quebec’s Minister of Labour, Employment and Social Solidarity, Jean Boulet, recently tabled Bill 78,
An Act mainly to improve the transparency of enterprises (Bill or Bill 78), before the Quebec National Assembly.
The Bill seeks to amend the
Act respecting the legal publicity of enterprises (ALPE) and improve corporate transparency. These proposed changes follow the recommendations made by Quebec’s Minister of Finance in pages B.31 and following of the 2020–2021 Budget (Budget).
The Bill will require that corporations disclose information on “ultimate beneficiaries” to the Quebec enterprise registrar, for entry in Quebec’s enterprise register (register), while allowing the information to be searched by the name of a natural person and ensuring adequate protection of personal information.