In Administration portuaire de Québec c. Fortin, 2017 QCCA 315, the Court of Appeal reconfirmed an important difference between severance pay (indemnité de départ”) and payment in lieu of notice (indemnité tenant lieu de préavis de fin d’emploi or délai-congé). The difference? The duty to mitigate.

In the recent decision in Benizri v. Canada Post Corporation (2017 QCCS 908), Justice Silvana Conte refused to certify the following proposed class action against Canada Post