Corporate Training
Practical training to secure your decisions and equip your teams
PPA-JURIS offers custom training for organizations looking to improve practices, reduce gray areas, and align operations with their obligations. Our training is designed to be useful day to day: clear legal concepts, concrete examples, reusable tools, and reflexes you can apply immediately.
Objective: build strong internal capabilities in governance, ethics, compliance, and contract execution—while strengthening alignment across teams, processes, and responsibilities.
Why invest in training
In Québec, a business with a payroll of $2,000,000 or more must invest at least 1% in workforce training, under the Act to promote workforce skills development and recognition.
Beyond this requirement, training remains a strategic investment: it aligns teams on shared methods, reduces interpretation gaps, and reinforces operational discipline.
Teams concerned
- Leadership & committees
- Procurement & contracts
- Projects & finance
- Sites / operations
Topics
Public tendering process
Objective: secure participation and contract award in public tenders governed by the LCOP, the Cities and Towns Act, and the Municipal Code.
Key points:
· Electronic tendering system (SEAO)
· Questions to the contracting authority
· Complaints about tender documents or the award process
· Minimum legal time limits (questions, complaints, bid submission)
· Thresholds applicable to public tenders
· Authorization to contract
· Autorité des marchés publics (Public Procurement Authority)
Ideal for: leadership & committees, procurement & contracts, projects & finance
Contract management
Objective: structure and optimize contract management at every stage, from bid to closeout.
Key points:
· Contract award
· Execution
· Materially different contract conditions
· Changes
· Invoicing
Ideal for: procurement & contracts, projects & finance, sites/operations
Payments and rapid dispute resolution (LCOP)
Objective: implement the Regulation respecting payments and the rapid resolution of disputes in construction work.
Key points:
· Phased coming-into-force of the regulation
· Contracts covered
· Payment timelines
· Full or partial refusal of payment
· Third-party decision-maker: powers and enforceability of the decision in case of dispute
· Time limits in the dispute-resolution procedure
Ideal for: projects & finance, sites/operations
Surety bonds and other guarantees
Objective: use surety bonds and guarantees to secure contract performance and protect receivables/claims.
Key points:
· Types of required bonds (depending on private vs public tendering)
· Indemnity agreement between the surety and the contractor
· Notice
· Claim
· Legal (construction) hypothec and conventional immovable hypothec (mortgage)
Movable hypothec (security interest)
Ideal for: leadership & committees, procurement & contracts, projects & finance
Claims process
Objective: manage claims under public and private construction contracts, from notice of intent through filing/submission.
Key points:
· General rule
· Contracts subject to the CCDG
Contracts governed by the BNQ 1809-900 administrative specifications (private or municipal)
· Various private contracts
· Notice of intent to claim
· Claim contents
Ideal for: leadership & committees, projects & finance, sites/operations
Ethics and compliance
Objective: implement ethics and compliance practices that work in day-to-day operations.
Key points:
· Importance of implementing codes of conduct and ethics
· Employee codes
· Supplier code of conduct
· Canadian and international rules on modern slavery in supply chains
· Anti-corruption laws
Ideal for: Everyone
Lobbying
Objective: frame influence communications with public office holders to ensure compliance.
Key points:
· Act respecting transparency and ethics in lobbying
· Lobbyist designation
· Lobbyist obligations
· Client obligations
· Registration/filing of the mandate
· Carrefour Lobby
· Types of offences
Ideal for: leadership & committees, projects & finance
Heavy vehicle operator obligations
Objective: frame compliance for managers and drivers to reduce the risk of violations.
Key points:
· Transport Act
· Highway Safety Code
· Powers of the Transport Commission
· Owner-operator obligations
· Driver/operator obligations
· Vehicle maintenance
· Driving hours
· Violations
Ideal for: leadership & committees, sites/operations
Other
On-demand training on current topics, including updates to standardized specifications, case law reviews, etc.
Formats
- On-site
- Online
- Cohort-based
- Tailored workshops
Typical duration: 60–180 minutes (adjustable). Multi-module pathways available
Process