{"id":4058,"date":"2026-03-31T04:00:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T08:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cpp.hec.ca\/en\/?p=4058"},"modified":"2026-03-25T14:13:48","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T18:13:48","slug":"bill-14-a-high-profile-reform-but-one-lacking-substance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cpp.hec.ca\/en\/bill-14-a-high-profile-reform-but-one-lacking-substance\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill 14: A High-Profile Reform, but One Lacking Substance"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container has-pattern-background has-mask-background nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1144px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:20px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p><strong>Montreal, March 31, 2026<\/strong> \u2013 After dominating Quebec news in 2025, the reform of the Labor Code aimed at better addressing the public\u2019s needs during strikes or lockouts risks generating much more noise than results, concludes a <a href=\"http:\/\/cpp.hec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/PP-2025-05.pdf\">new study by the Centre on Productivity and Prosperity \u2013 Walter J. Somers Foundation (CPP)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Effective as of fall 2025, this reform expands the government\u2019s scope of intervention regarding essential services by creating a parallel framework whose boundaries can be extended by government decree. In the researchers\u2019 view, this law will have limited impact. \u201cBy choosing to rely on discretionary government intervention rather than generally applicable mechanisms, the government is missing an opportunity to establish a genuine mechanism for resolving labour disputes in the event of an impasse,\u201d summarizes Robert Gagn\u00e9, CPP Director and co-author of the study. However, Quebec faces a major structural challenge due to a particularly high concentration of labor disputes in the public sector, which is why it is necessary to effectively modernize the Labor Code.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div><div ><a class=\"fusion-button button-flat fusion-button-default-size button-default fusion-button-default button-1 fusion-button-default-span fusion-button-default-type\" target=\"_self\" href=\"http:\/\/cpp.hec.ca\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/03\/Communique_PP-2025-05_ANG.pdf\"><span class=\"fusion-button-text awb-button__text awb-button__text--default\">Read press release<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4056,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media-room","category-press-releases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpp.hec.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpp.hec.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpp.hec.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpp.hec.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpp.hec.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4058"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cpp.hec.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4061,"href":"https:\/\/cpp.hec.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4058\/revisions\/4061"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpp.hec.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpp.hec.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpp.hec.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpp.hec.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}