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30 May 2010:

Fundraising Evening

The Center is organizing a fundraising event on the evening of the 18th of June, beginning at 6pm.

You and your family and friends are invited to a spectacle organized entirely by our caregiver members to save their organization.

Admission is $20, which includes supper and a show.

To download a document detailing the Centre's needs, please click this link.

3 April 2010:

Modifications to the Live-in Caregiver Program (French only)

To download the program modifications, please click this link.

2 May 2009:

April 9, 2009: Workshop Programme

To download the programme, please click on the LCP Workshop link.

2 May 2009:

Caregivers and us:
To the employers and caregivers

As of May 1st, 2009, the minimum wage in Quebec has increased to $9/hour. It means that the employer of a live-in caregiver will now have to calculate the salary of her worker with an hourly rate of $9/hour. The gross salary for 40h/week is $360. After 40 hours of work, the time and half for hours of overtime must be calculated as follows ($9 + $4.5 = $13.50 X number of hours.)

Example: if the salary of your employee is $9.00, every hour worked in excess of the normal 40-hour week will thus be paid in time and half that is $13.50 ($9.00 x 4.50). Consequently, if she works 52 hours during the same week, her salary will be calculated as follows:

40 hours at $9.00/hr = $360.00 (normal hours)
12 hours at $13.50/hr = $162.00 (overtime)
Total (gross salary) = $522.00

28 March 2009:

SUCCESS: LCP Workshop

Live-in Caregiver Program Workshop and information session on obligations and rights under the LCP

To download the invitation details, click on the link for the LCP Workshop)

Please revisit the site often. You can expect invitations to upcoming events in the weeks to come!

30 November 2008:

NEW: Labour Standards Workshop(PDF)

Caregivers and Us:

To employers of live-in caregivers:

Did you know that December 25th (Christmas) and January 1st (New Year's Day) are paid statutory holidays ?

According the labour standard commission «In order for an employee to be entitled to a paid statutory holiday, he must not have been absent from work, without his employer's authorization or without valid reason, on the working day preceding or the working day following that holiday.

The working day preceding or following the statutory holiday is the working day for the employee. An employee who works on a statutory holiday must obtain, in addition to his regular wages, an indemnity or a compensatory holiday equivalent to one day.

The compensatory holiday must be taken in the three weeks preceding or following this statutory holiday. The indemnity that an employer must pay an employee for a paid statutory holiday is equal to 1/20 of the wages earned during the four complete weeks of pay preceding the week of the holiday, excluding overtime».

Click here to consult the commissions publications.

To the live-in caregivers: Health and security

The winter is felt. Assure you to protect yourselves well against cold by dressing you warmly (glove, hat, topcoat, etc) to avoid chilblains and protect you against risks of pneumonia, etc.

For more information contact us at (514)750-1710 or contact the Labour Standards Commission at (514) 873-7061 or at this free number 1800 265-1414

August to December 2008:
Cardinal Léger Workshops

Within the framework of our project financed by the Oeuvre Cardinal Léger and by the Syndicat de professionnelles et professionnels du gouvernement du Québec (SPGQ) entitled «Prevent the violence made to the caregivers at job», the Domestic workers center invites you to his workshops.

Download the schedule here or consult our Activities Page.

April 18, 2008: French Course Registration

You are a Domestic Worker.

You would like to learn to speak French from innovative methods to make your integration in Quebec easier.

Register free by contacting us in (514) 750-1710

January 24, 2008: Minimum Wage Rates

Important news on new minimum wage rates effective in 2008. Please click on this link.

October 30, 2007: Agencies and fraud

From the Ministry of Immigration and Cultural Communities, on the topic of agencies and fraud (Translated from the original French):

"The web site of the Quebec bureau of immigration in Hong Kong contains a number of warnings addressed to immigration candidates so as to caution prudence when working with immigration intermediaries.

They suggest verifying the legal existence of the organisation represented by the intermediary, by insisting on proof and by verifying with proper authorities.

It is however mentioned that the Ministry of Immigration and Cultural Communities does not provide any information on these intermediaries or immigration consultants, namely because such information is confidential and has to do with immigration dossiers.

It is also mentioned that no priority or preferential treatment will be accorded to a dossier of an applicant who retains the services of an immigration intermediary.

For your government, the Ministry of Citizenship and Immigration of Canada requires that an immigration intermediary, in order to be authorized to represent an immigration candidate, be a member of one of the following organisations:

a professional order of Canadian jurists from a province or territory;

the Canadian Society of Immigration Consultants (CSIC)- http://www.csic-scci.ca ;

the Chamber of Commerce of Quebec Notaries.

In addition, a person within to create a recruitment agency and do business in Quebec must be registered with the Quebec Enterprise Registry and must obtain an identification number from Revenue Quebec.

You can verify the conditions to launch an enterprise by clicking here".

October 16, 2007

Don't be victim to slavery!

(Download PDF (French only))

August 25, 2007

Opinion editorial from the Quebec social Forum. Strategic session on the stakes in migration and human rights.

(Download PDF (French only))

Summer 2007

The fragile status of home caregivers.

(Download PDF (French only))