281. Two-thirds of the votes cast at a meeting of the board of directors are required to enable the board to dismiss or suspend without salary the secretary, the assistant secretary, a director general, the head of a department or any other person who performs similar duties and who is under the supervision of the director general of the Société, if he has been in office for six months or more. The same rule applies in the case of a reduction of salary. Except in the case of the secretary or assistant-secretary, the dismissal, suspension without salary or the reduction of salary may be decided only upon the recommendation of the director general of the Société.
The decision of the board of directors shall be served or sent by registered or certified mail to the person contemplated in the first paragraph.
Every person dismissed or suspended without salary or whose salary has been reduced under this section may appeal from the decision before the Commission municipale du Québec, which, after an inquiry, shall decide in last instance. The appeal shall be brought within 15 days after the decision of the board of directors is served.
If the appeal is maintained, the Commission municipale du Québec may also order the Société to pay the appellant the amount it determines as compensation for expenses incurred by him for the appeal; the order for that purpose shall be homologated by the Court of Québec or the Superior Court on a motion by the appellant, according to their respective jurisdictions; the appellant may then enforce the judgment against the Société.
1972, c. 73, s. 17; 1977, c. 5, s. 14; 1982, c. 18, s. 117; 1984, c. 38, s. 115; 1985, c. 31, s. 23; 1988, c. 21, s. 66; 1993, c. 68, s. 78; 1999, c. 40, s. 68.