Wal-Mart Stores, the world’s biggest retailer, has won an appeal to Canada’s highest court, letting it reject a lawsuit over its 2005 closing of a Quebec store after employees unionised.

The supreme court of Canada said in a ruling yesterday that its decision would have a limited effect.

The ruling does not change workers’ ability to seek remedies against an employer that closes a store because of anti-union motives.

It does affect whether employees can claim an advantage by saying they lost their jobs because they exercised collective-bargaining rights.

– (Bloomberg)