MEDIA ADVISORY - Occupational health and safety system - Employers offer
tangible solutions for improving the system covering more than three million
Quebec workers

MONTREAL, Nov. 22 /CNW Telbec/ - Yves-Thomas Dorval, president of the Quebec Employers Council, and Françoise Bertrand, president and CEO of the Fédération des chambres de commerce du Québec, invite media representatives to a press briefing at which they will unveil the recommendations made by the employers they represent to the Camiré working group mandated by the CSST board of directors to study Quebec's occupational health and safety system.

The system directly affects 3.1 million Quebec workers and 190,000 employers who cover its entire $2.4-billion annual cost.

Date:	Wednesday, November 24, 2010
Time:	12:30 p.m.
Place:	Sofitel Montreal Hotel, Salon Gauguin 1155 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal

Mr. Dorval and Ms. Bertrand will be available for interviews after the event.

This press briefing will take place alongside a symposium being held by the Employers Council, intended for employers and open to the media, where discussions will include the conclusions of a study on optimizing the management and prevention of chronicity conducted for the CSST by SECOR Group. The symposium will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the Salon Picasso on the second floor of the Sofitel Montreal Hotel.

Further details on the symposium are available on the website of the Quebec Employers Council (www.cpq.qc.ca).

The Quebec Employers Council brings together many of Quebec's largest companies and the vast majority of sector-based employers' groups, making it Quebec's sole employers' confederation.

For further information:

Renseignements et entrevues : 
Patrick Lemieux
Conseiller - Communications
Cell. : 438 886 9804

Diane Jeannotte
Cell. : 514 772 8019