FPSLREB Decisions

Compensation - Pay increment date - Public Sector Compensation Act - the collective agreements generally provided for a pay increment period of 12 months for the grievors who were full-time employees and 1,950 hours for those who were part-time employees - the collective agreements also set out the date on which the pay increments would take effect - the Public Sector Compensation Act (the Act) cancelled the right to pay increments for a period of two years - the grievors argued that they had a vested right to the time worked before the legislative provisions came into force and that that time had to be recognized at the end of the two-year period in calculating the pay increment period - the employer responded that the Act had extended the compensation system while cancelling the right to pay increments for a period of two years - the adjudicator held that the collective agreements provided for a specific date for the pay increments to come into effect, that the Act had amended the collective agreements to cancel the right to pay increments for a period of two years and that the grievors were not entitled to the pay increments that would normally have been received during that period. Grievances denied..