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Public Service
Labour Relations Act
- Date: 2007-02-09
- File: 585-09-9
- Citation: 2007 PSLRB 19
Before the Chairperson
Public Service Labour Relations Board
IN THE MATTER OF
THE PUBLIC SERVICE LABOUR RELATIONS ACT
and a dispute affecting
the Research Council Employees' Association, as bargaining agent,
and the National Research Council of Canada, as employer,
in respect of the employees in the Administrative and Foreign Service Category engaged in the planning, execution and control of data processing services involving the use of computers.
Indexed as
Research Council Employees' Association v. National Research Council of Canada
TERMS OF REFERENCE OF THE ARBITRATION BOARD
To: David Kwavnick, chairperson of the arbitration board;
Robert McIntosh and Peter Devitt, arbitration board members
[1] On December 6, 2006, the Research Council Employees' Association requested the establishment of an arbitration board in respect of all the employees of the employer in the Administrative and Foreign Service Category engaged in the planning, execution and control of data processing services involving the use of computers and referred to subsection 140(1) of the Public Service Labour Relations Act (the Act) for so doing.
[2] Included with its request of December 6, 2006, the Research Council Employees' Association provided a list of the terms and conditions of employment that it wished to have referred to the arbitration board. The terms and conditions of employment and supporting material are attached hereto as SCHEDULE I
[3] By letters of December 15 and 18, 2006, the National Research Council of Canada provided its position on the terms and conditions of employment that the Research Council Employees' Association wished to have referred to the arbitration board. The National Research Council of Canada also provided a list of additional terms and conditions of employment it wished to have referred to the arbitration board. That letter and supporting material are attached hereto as SCHEDULE II
[4] The Research Council Employees' Association by letter of December 20, 2006, provided its comments clarifications with respect to the submission of December 15 and 18, 2006. That letter is attached hereto as SCHEDULE III.
[5] Accordingly, pursuant to section 144 of the Act, the matters in dispute on which the arbitration board shall render an arbitral award in this dispute are those set out as outstanding in SCHEDULE I to SCHEDULE III inclusive attached hereto.
[6] Should any jurisdictional question arise during the course of the hearing as to the inclusion of a matter in these terms of reference, that question must be submitted forthwith to me because the Chairperson of the Public Service Labour Relations Board is, according to the provisions of subsection 144(1) of the Act, the only person authorized to make such a determination.
February 9, 2007.
Casper Bloom,
Chairperson