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Public Service 
Labour Relations Act

Coat of Arms - Armoiries
  • Date:  2012-02-14
  • File:  585-02-38
  • Citation:  2012 PSLRB 18

Before the Chairperson
Public Service Labour Relations Board


IN THE MATTER OF
THE PUBLIC SERVICE LABOUR RELATIONS ACT
and a dispute affecting
the Canadian Association of Professional Employees, as bargaining agent,
and the Treasury Board of Canada, as employer,
in respect of the Economics and Social Science Services (EC) group bargaining unit

Indexed as
Canadian Association of Professional Employees v. Treasury Board of Canada

TERMS OF REFERENCE OF THE ARBITRATION BOARD

To: Yvon Tarte, chairperson of the arbitration board;
William Krause and Guy Lauzé, arbitration board members

Before:
Casper M. Bloom, Q.C., Ad. E., Chairperson

For the Bargaining Agent:
Peter Engelmann, Counsel

For the Employer:
Cynthia Nash, Treasury Board of Canada

Issued on the basis of written submission,
dated December 14 and 28,2011, and January 6, 2012.

1 By letter of December 14, 2011, the Canadian Association of Professional Employees (“the bargaining agent”) requested arbitration in respect of the Economics and Social Science Services (EC) group bargaining unit. Along with its request, the bargaining agent provided a list of the terms and conditions of employment that it wished to refer to arbitration. Those terms and conditions of employment and supporting material are attached as schedule 1.

2 By letter of December 28, 2011, the Treasury Board of Canada (“the employer”) provided its position on the terms and conditions of employment that the bargaining agent wished to refer to arbitration. The employer also provided a list of additional terms and conditions of employment it wished to refer to arbitration. That letter and supporting material are attached as schedule 2.

3 By letter of January 6, 2012, the bargaining agent provided its position on the additional terms and conditions of employment that the employer wished to refer to arbitration. That letter is attached as schedule 3.

4 Accordingly, pursuant to section 144 of the Public Service Labour Relations Act (the “Act”), the matters in dispute on which the arbitration board shall make an arbitral award are those set out in schedules 1 to 3 inclusive, which are attached to this decision.

5 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 without delay to the Chairperson of the Public Service Labour Relations Board, who is, according to subsection 144(1) of the Act, the only person authorized to make such a determination.

February 14, 2012.

Casper M. Bloom, Q.C., Ad. E.,
Chairperson
Public Service Labour Relations Board

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