32,000 Quebec teachers must be paid on St-Jean-Baptiste Day: ruling

Thousands of Quebec teachers, thanks to a new ruling, will soon receive pay for working on the day of Fête nationale. 
The Journal de Montreal reports that 32,000 of the province’s 104,000 teachers with “precarious and non-permanent status,” such as substitutes, who were previously not paid to work the holiday, will now receive a cheque if they worked the weeks prior, as required by the labour standards Act.
The arbitration tribunal’s May 4 ruling is