{"id":91864,"date":"2017-03-01T02:20:25","date_gmt":"2017-03-01T07:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=91864"},"modified":"2017-03-01T02:20:25","modified_gmt":"2017-03-01T07:20:25","slug":"quebec-adopts-law-to-force-government-lawyers-and-notaries-back-to-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/03\/01\/quebec-adopts-law-to-force-government-lawyers-and-notaries-back-to-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Quebec adopts law to force government lawyers and notaries back to work"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_91865\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-91865\" style=\"width: 635px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Quebec-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-91865\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Quebec-2.png\" alt=\"Quebec's national assembly adopted legislation on Tuesday to force striking government lawyers and notaries back to work. (Photo: Harvey Barrison\/Flickr)\" width=\"635\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Quebec-2.png 635w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Quebec-2-300x201.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 635px) 100vw, 635px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-91865\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Quebec&#8217;s national assembly adopted legislation on Tuesday to force striking government lawyers and notaries back to work. (Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hbarrison\/15612193387\/in\/photolist-5uNt3F-q56Uj5-p8buP1-pMAAxc-pMAzb4-5tXwa2-p8bukq-pMx9mH-q56Cj9-p8dLL6-4Bewzf-88u6Q1-q4MWux-5QGf7k-p8dLEe-qUm5E7-9q4iv2-6mcP2V-4BafDB-VDNg8\">Harvey Barrison\/Flickr<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Quebec&#8217;s national assembly adopted legislation on Tuesday to force striking government lawyers and notaries back to work.<\/p>\n<p>The bill passed by a 52-38 margin after a lengthy debate, with the three opposition parties voting against it.<\/p>\n<p>The 1,100 lawyers and notaries were ordered to return to work Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>They have been on strike since October to seek wage parity with Crown prosecutors in Quebec.<\/p>\n<p>They also want status comparable to that of the prosecutors. That would force the government to accept the recommendation of a third party in determining their salary.<\/p>\n<p>Under the legislation, the lawyers and notaries will have 45 days to negotiate a contract.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quebec&#8217;s national assembly adopted legislation on Tuesday to force striking government lawyers and notaries back to work. The bill passed &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":91865,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,18,16],"tags":[15968],"class_list":["post-91864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ca","category-news","tag-quebecs-national-assembly","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}