FPSLREB Decisions
Decision Information
Amendment to description of bargaining unit - Amendment to certification - Subsection 103(2) of the Public Service Reform Act (PSRA) - Financial Management Group - pursuant to section 102 of the PSRA, the Treasury Board amended the specification and definition of the Financial Management Subgroup of the General Services Group, by specifying and defining in its place the occupational group known as the Financial Management Group - immediately prior to this, the Association of Public Service Financial Administrators was the bargaining agent certified for the bargaining unit comprised of all employees or the Employer in the Financial Management Subgroup of the General Services Group, which is now covered by the new Financial Management Group - the bargaining agent's certification had not been revoked under the Public Service Staff Relations Act and has been continued by virtue of subsection 103(1) of the PSRA - the Board amended the description of the bargaining unit and the certification of the bargaining agent to refer to the new Financial Management Group bargaining unit. Description of the bargaining unit amended. Certification amended.
Decision Content
File: 142-2-336 Public Service Staff Before the Public Service Relations Act Staff Relations Board BETWEEN ASSOCIATION OF PUBLIC SERVICE FINANCIAL ADMINISTRATORS Bargaining Agent and TREASURY BOARD Employer
RE: Amendment to Description of Bargaining Unit under Subsection 103(2) of the Public Service Reform Act – Financial Management Group
Before: Yvon Tarte, Chairperson
(Decided without a hearing)
Decision Page 1 DECISION 1. This is a proceeding relating to the obligations of the Board under subsection 103(2) of the Public Service Reform Act (PSRA), S.C. 1992, c. 54, with respect to the bargaining unit consisting of all employees of the Employer in the Financial Management Subgroup of the General Services Group, for which the Association of Public Service Financial Administrators (APSFA) was certified as the bargaining agent on October 25, 1989 (Board File No. 144-2-290), as amended on March 7, 1994 (Board File No. 141-2-3), and for which the Treasury Board is the employer.
2. The following are the relevant provisions of the PSRA: . . . 100. In sections 101 to 107, "effective date", in respect of an occupational group, means the date on which the group was specified and defined as set out in a notice published pursuant to subsection 101(4);
"occupational group" means a group of employees specified and defined as set out in a notice published pursuant to subsection 101(4) and includes a subgroup of such employees.
101. (1) The Treasury Board shall, before the sixth anniversary of the coming into force of this section, specify and define groups of employees in such manner as to include therein all employees employed in those portions of the Public Service specified in Part I of Schedule I of the Public Service Staff Relations Act and no other employees.
(2) Groups of employees shall be specified and defined according to the duties and responsibilities of positions.
(3) Groups of employees may be divided into subgroups. (4) Forthwith after specifying and defining a group of employees, the Treasury Board shall cause notice of the group and of the date on which the group was specified and defined to be published in the Canada Gazette.
102. (1) The Treasury specification and definition of an occupational group.
(2) Forthwith after amending the specification and definition of an occupational group, the Treasury Board shall
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Board may amend the
Decision Page 2 cause notice of the amendement to be published in the Canada Gazette.
103. (1) Subject to subsection (2), an employee organization that, immediately before the effective date for an occupational group, was certified under the Public Service Staff Relations Act as the bargaining agent for a bargaining unit consisting of any or all employees in that group continues thereafter to be so certified, unless the certification is revoked under that Act.
(2) Where the certification of a bargaining agent is continued by subsection (1), the Board shall amend the description, in the certification of the agent, of the employees represented by the agent to accord with the specification and definition of the occupational group under section 101 and, where the agent represents more than one bargaining unit in the occupational group, the Board shall amalgamate those units into one bargaining unit.
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3. The Treasury Board, pursuant to subsection 102(1) of the PSRA, amended the specification and definition of the occupational group known as the Financial Management Subgroup of the General Services Group, by specifying and defining in its place the occupational group known as the Financial Management Group, effective March 18, 1999.
4. On March 27, 1999, the Treasury Board, in accordance with subsection 102(2) of the PSRA, caused to be published in the Canada Gazette, Part I, Volume 133, No. 13, notice of this amendment.
5. APSFA is the employee organization that, immediately before the effective date for the Financial Management Group, was certified as the bargaining agent for the bargaining unit referred to in paragraph 1.
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Decision Page 3 6. The certification of APSFA for the bargaining unit referred to in paragraph 1 has not been revoked under the Public Service Staff Relations Act and has been continued by virtue of subsection 103(1) of the PSRA.
7. Pursuant to the provisions of subsection 103(2) of the PSRA, the Board hereby amends the description in the certification of the bargaining agent, as set out in the certificate issued by the Board to APSFA, by deleting the description of the bargaining unit contained therein and substituting therefor the following: All employees of the Employer in the Financial Management Group as defined in Part I of the Canada Gazette of March 27, 1999.
8. An amended certificate will be issued accordingly.
OTTAWA, June 3, 1999
Public Service Staff Relations Board
Yvon Tarte, for the Board