The Quebec government has tabled a new bill to limit the duration of strikes and lockouts.
Tabled today by Labour Minister Jean Boulet, the bill aims to protect services required to maintain “social, economic and environmental security,” especially of vulnerable people.
Boulet says his bill would cover sectors that aren’t already subject to the province’s essential services act, which regulates labour relations in areas such as health care and the civil service.
The new bill would allow the government to refer labour disputes to Quebec’s administrative labour tribunal, which could then oblige the parties to reach an agreement to maintain certain services….