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CNESST (labour standards, pay equity, health and safety board)

In French: CNESST

Definition

Quebec's labour standards, pay equity, and occupational health and safety board. It enforces labour standards, including the minimum wage, and health and safety rules, including the construction safety code: for example, a trench a worker enters must be shored or sloped back beyond 1.2 m deep.

Also called

  • Quebec workplace safety board

Other names in French

  • Commission des normes, de l'équité, de la santé et de la sécurité du travail

Sources

  1. The CNESST publishes the minimum wage rate in force in Quebec.

    Salaire · CNESST

  2. The safety code requires trench walls to be shored, with exceptions such as a slope under 45 degrees starting less than 1.2 m above the bottom. (art. 3.15.3)

    Code de sécurité pour les travaux de construction, RLRQ c. S-2.1, r. 4 · Gouvernement du Québec (LégisQuébec)