FPSLREB Decisions

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Professional Association of Foreign Service Officers v. Treasury Board

Collection FPSLREB Decisions
Decision Rendered 2003-06-12
Citation 2003 PSSRB 46
File Number 142-2-326, 144-2-44
Before Yvon Tarte
Decision Type Labour Relations
Subject Terms Bargaining agent
Bargaining unit
Certification
Summary:

Amendment to description of bargaining unit - Amendment to certification - Subsection 103(2) of the Public Service Reform Act (PSRA) - Foreign Service Group - pursuant to section 101 of the PSRA, the Treasury Board specified and defined the occupational group known as the Foreign Service Group - immediately prior to this, the Professional Association of Foreign Service Officers was the bargaining agent certified for the Foreign Affairs Group bargaining unit, which is now covered by the new Foreign Service Group - the bargaining agent's certification had not been revoked under the Public Service Staff Relations Act and has been continued by virtue of subsection 103(1) of the PSRA - the Board amended the description of the bargaining unit and the certification of the bargaining agent to refer to the new Foreign Service Group bargaining unit. Description of the bargaining unit amended. Certification amended.

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Public Service Staff Relations Act

Coat of Arms - Armoiries
  • Date:  2003-06-12
  • File:  142-2-326, 144-2-44
  • Citation:  2003 PSSRB 46

Before the Public Service Staff Relations Board

BETWEEN

THE PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FOREIGN SERVICE OFFICERS
Bargaining Agent

TREASURY BOARD
 Employer

RE:   ALTERATION IN THE PROCESS FOR
        RESOLUTION OF A DISPUTE
        Foreign Service Group


Before:   Joseph W. Potter, Vice-Chairperson

(Heard without an oral hearing)

[1]      In Professional Association of Foreign Service Officers v. Treasury Board (142-2-326, May 10, 1999), the Board confirmed the certification of the Professional Association of Foreign Service Officers (bargaining agent) as the bargaining agent of the following bargaining unit (bargaining unit):
All employees of the Employer in the Foreign Service Group as defined in the Canada Gazette on March 27, 1999.

[2]      On May 14, 2003, the bargaining agent applied to the Board to record an alteration in the process for resolution of a dispute that is applicable to the bargaining unit. The bargaining agent specified that the process of referral of a dispute to conciliation shall now be the process for resolution of any dispute to which it may be a party in respect of the bargaining unit.

[3]      Pursuant to section 39 of the Public Service Staff Relations Act (Act), the Board hereby records the process of referral of a dispute to conciliation as the process for resolution of a dispute specified by the bargaining agent.

[4]      The process for resolution of a dispute hereby recorded by the Board shall be the process applicable to the bargaining unit for the resolution of all disputes from the day on which any notice to bargain collectively in respect of the bargaining unit is given next following May 14, 2003, and remains in effect until the process for resolution of a dispute is again altered pursuant to section 39 of the Act.

Joseph W. Potter,
Vice-Chairperson

OTTAWA, June 19, 2003.

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