Yes — both regimes attach obligations that Ontario’s equivalent section simply does not have.
Short answer
Quebec’s collective-dismissal trigger is ten employees at one establishment “in the course of two consecutive months,” not four weeks, and once it fires the Act respecting labour standards s.84.0.8 bars the employer from changing “the wages of an employee affected by the collective dismissal or…the group insurance and pension plans” without written consent, throughout the notice window. Federally, the Canada Labour Code requires the employer to establish and fund a joint planning committee alongside the group notice — a cost with no Ontario counterpart.
Section 84.0.4 closes with the words “An employer that gives the notice referred to in the first paragraph is not exempted from giving the notice required by section 82” — the Minister notice and the individual notice are cumulative, the reverse of Ontario’s replacement structure. A staggered layoff plan built to stay under a four-week window can still land inside Quebec’s two-month one. And where the Minister requests it, s.84.0.9 requires the employer to “participate in the establishment of a reclassification assistance committee,” with funding under s.84.0.11 fixed either by agreement or by regulation — a cost line Ontario’s Part XV never creates at any size of employer.
Canada Labour Code s.214(1) requires an employer that gives group-termination notice to establish a joint planning committee, and s.220 entitles committee members to paid time from work to carry out its business. Neither obligation has a provincial equivalent tied to Ontario’s s.58 — a federal group reduction carries the committee cost on top of the sixteen-week flat notice under s.212(1), regardless of the reduction’s size within the 50-employee floor.
Quebec’s stacking and window decided a Quebec collective dismissal that brought a committee with it. The freeze on benefits migration is the subject of a benefits migration frozen for twelve weeks in Quebec. The federal committee obligation decided a federal group termination that came with a joint planning committee.
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