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Public Service Alliance of Canada v. House of Commons

Collection FPSLREB Decisions
Decision Rendered 2007-11-15
Citation 2007 PSLRB 111
File Number 485-HC-36
Before Dan R. Quigley; Ron Leblanc; Joe Herbert
Decision Type Labour Relations
Subject Terms Terms of reference
Original Language English
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Parliamentary Employment and Staff Relations Act

Coat of Arms - Armoiries
  • Date:  2007-11-15
  • File:  485-HC-36
  • Citation:  2007 PSLRB 111

Before the Public Service Labour Relations Board

IN THE MATTER OF
THE PARLIAMENTARY EMPLOYMENT AND STAFF RELATIONS ACT
and a dispute affecting
the Public Service Alliance of Canada, as bargaining agent,
and the House of Commons, as employer,
in respect of the employees in the Reporting and
Text Processing Sub-Groups in the
Parliamentary Program Group

Indexed as
Public Service Alliance of Canada v. House of Commons

TERMS OF REFERENCE FOR ARBITRATION

To:
Dan Quigley, Joe Herbert and Ron Leblanc,
Members of the Board for the purposes of the arbitration in the above-cited matter

For the Bargaining Agent:
Morgan Gay, Public Service Alliance of Canada

For the Employer:
Carole Piette, Counsel

(Decided without an oral hearing)

1 By letter dated September 6, 2007, pursuant to section 50 of the Parliamentary Employment and Staff Relations Act (PESRA), the Public Service Alliance of Canada requested arbitration for the bargaining unit consisting of all employees of the Employer in the Reporting and Text Processing Sub-Groups in the Parliamentary Program Group.  In that same letter, the bargaining agent provided a list of the terms and conditions of employment that it wished to have referred to arbitration. 

2 On October 22, 2007 the Public Service Alliance of Canada wrote to the Board providing a revised version of the union's proposals with respect to the terms and conditions of employment specified in their original submission of September 6, 2007.  That letter, the terms and conditions of employment and supporting material are attached hereto as SCHEDULE I.

3 The House of Commons, pursuant to section 51 of the PESRA, provided additional terms and conditions of employment that it wished to have referred to arbitration in their letter of September 17, 2007.  That letter, the terms and conditions of employment and supporting material are attached hereto as SCHEDULE II.

4 By facsimile dated November 6, 2007, the counsel for the employer responded to the bargaining agent's revised proposals and maintained its positions regarding all remaining outstanding matters.  That letter is attached hereto as SCHEDULE III.

5 Accordingly, pursuant to section 52 of the PESRA, the panel of the Board established for the purpose of the arbitration in this matter is to render an arbitral award on those matters in dispute that are set out as outstanding in SCHEDULE I to SCHEDULE III attached hereto.

November 15, 2007.

Casper Bloom, Q.C., Ad. E.,
Chairperson

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