Our Services
| 1. Telephone information Service 2. Legal Training for Community organisers and Union representatives |
1. Telephone Information Service / Hotline
Did your employer recently fire you? Are you experiencing harassment by a colleague? Does your boss refuse to pay for your overtime? Are you living in a difficult situation at work and you wish to know what are your rights and how to resolve your problem?
Call us: We can help you! 514 270-7878
Our telephone service is free and confidential. We can inform you of your rights at the workplace and of the possible remedies you at your disposal, especially those arising from the Act Respecting Labour Standards.
| Regular Hours * (September to June) | Summer Schedule (from St-Jean-Baptiste day to Labour day) |
| Monday: 1.30 pm to 8 pm Tuesday: 1.30 pm to 5 pm Thursday: 9 pm to 12 pm Thursday: 1.30 pm to 5 pm |
Monday: 13 pm to 16 pm Tuesday: 13 pm to 16 pm Thursday: 13 pm to 16 pm |
* Please take note that when the Monday is a statutory holiday, we will respond to your calls on the following Tuesday from 1.30 pm to 8 pm.
If the line is busy or if you call at a time out of our working hours, please leave us a message and we will get back to you as soon as possible.
If you prefer to send us your request for information by e-mail, please send it to the following address (abe@aubasdelechelle.ca). Do not forget to leave us your name and telephone number! However, we must insist that we cannot respond to your requests by e-mail. In effect, we believe it to be of upmost importance to be able to speak to you directly in order to ensure that we have a complete understanding of your situation. The quality of the information we provide you depends on our level of understanding of your situation.
2. Legal Training for Community organisers and Union representatives
This training is based on the labour laws and more specifically the Act Respecting Labour Standards. It is addressed to those individuals who work with people with problems in the workplace and for those individuals who would like to have a better understanding of their rights.
We offer two kinds of legal training for community organisers and union representatives. Please contact us for information regarding the costs.
A. Training for two days and a half
This two and a half day training will be held on the Friday 26th of August (18h to 21h), Saturday, the 27th of August (9h to 17h) and Sunday, the 28th of August 2011 (9h to 17h). This training is addressed to individuals who work with people struggling with problems in the work place as well those who simply want a better understanding of the labour standards.
The training covers the rights and remedies at the disposal of non-unionized workers in virtue of the different labour laws and charters, with an emphasis on those derived from the Act Respecting Labour Standards.
The professor will begin by providing a general outline of the charters and the laws that are applicable to non-unionized workers, such as the Act Respecting Labour Standards, the Civil Code of Quebec, The Quebec Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms and the Canadian Labour code. The professor will also cover issues of jurisdiction and competence of the various courts and administrative tribunals.
The professor will then get into the details of the rights that arise under the Act Respecting Labour Standards. The professor will also go through the core labour standards such as vacations, statutory holidays, minimum wage, overtime, psychological harassment and the complaints which can be filed at the Commission des normes du travail.
To find out more, inform yourself by calling the following number: 514 270-7878.
| Registration Closed Next Training session available: August 2012 |
B. Training for one (whole) day
Given twice a year, this training covers the rights and obligations of workers and employers under the Act Respecting Labour Standards.
The teacher will present the principle labour standards such as vacation, time-off, minimum wage, overtime, psychological harassment and the complaints which may be filed at the Commission of Labour Standards. ?WHEN? The dates are to be announced (Spring 2012).
SCHEDULE OF THE DAY:
9h30 to 12h and from 13h to 14h: Act Respecting Labour Standards (minimum wage, pay slip, notice for the termination of employment, vacations, overtime, unjust dismissal, the recourses available if the employer does not respect the law etc.).
14h to 16h: Right to a workplace exempt of psychological harassment (the legal definition of psychological harassment in the workplace, the obligations of employers, the remedies available through the recourse against it etc.).