Right of Quebec’s home-based childcare workers to unionize restored

Headline: A Quebec Superior Court judge has struck down legislation declaring that providers of government-funded childcare in their homes were not employees and therefore could not unionize. The judge found that the legislation deprived the predominantly female childcare workers of the guarantee of freedom of association in both the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the Quebec Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms, and that it also discriminated on the basis of sex contrary to both Charters.