FPSLREB Decisions

Position description - the grievors were customs enforcement officers - they alleged that their duties had changed from 1991 to 1994 and they had become regional intelligence officers - they asked for their position description to be modified to include the duties they had performed from 1991 to 1994 - the employer objected that the adjudicator could not consider these duties, as the grievors could not file a grievance on facts that were more than 25 days old - the grievors replied that the employer had undertaken to modify their position descriptions to include the duties that they had performed from 1991 to 1994 - the adjudicator took the objection under advisement and heard the grievances on their merits - the grievors submitted that their supervisor had given them the impression that he was in agreement with modifying their position description and that it would be modified - the employer responded that the duties that the grievors sought to have added to their position description were already contained in it - the employer added that no evidence of promissory estoppel had been presented - the arbitrator found that the grievors' position description already included the duties that they sought to have added to it - regarding his finding on the merits of the grievances, the adjudicator did not have to decide on the objection raised by the employer - he noted, however, that the grievors' supervisor did not have the authority to approve their request. Grievances denied. Cases cited: Canada (National Film Board) v. Coallier (September 13, 1983), A-405-93, (F.C.A.); Stagg v. Canada (Treasury Board) (December 15, 1993), T-1604-92 (F.C.T.D.).