An agreement-in-principle has been reached between the Quebecgovernment and its public sector engineers on Thursday night, avoiding MNAs sitting for an emergency session to debate a special law that would have forced them back to work.
The union will submit the offer to its members. Details have not been made public and both sides say they won't be until the engineers vote to ratify the deal.
Negotiations resumed Thursday afternoon in Quebec between the two sides, just hours from the scheduled tabling of back-to-work legislation.
The engineers' union claimed to be ready to challenge any legislation, saying the government was negotiating "bad faith".
The employer then submitted a new offer, but the Association of Professional Engineers of the Government of Quebec (APIGQ) estimated that it was lower than the previous one.
In an interview with The Canadian Press on Thursday, the secretary-treasurer of the APIGQ, Andy Guyaz, said he still wanted to find a negotiated solution.
The National Assembly was convened at the request of Premier Philippe Couillard for a special session Thursday night in case of failure of negotiations.