Date: 20240327
File: 585-02-49223
Citation: 2024 FPSLREB 44
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IN THE MATTER OF
THE FEDERAL PUBLIC SECTOR LABOUR RELATIONS ACT
and a dispute affecting
the National Police Federation, as bargaining agent,
and the Treasury Board, as employer,
in respect of the bargaining unit composed of all employees who are Royal Canadian Mounted Police members (excluding officers and civilian members) and all the employees who are reservists
Indexed as
National Police Federation v. Treasury Board
TERMS OF REFERENCE
To: William Kaplan, arbitration board
Before: Edith Bramwell, Chairperson of the Federal Public Sector Labour Relations and Employment Board
For the Bargaining Agent: Caroline Jones and Andrew Montague Reinholdt, counsel
For the Employer: Stephen Diotte
Issued on the basis of written submissions,
dated March 4 and 5, 2024.
TERMS OF REFERENCE OF THE ARBITRATION BOARD
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[1] On March 4, 2024, the National Police Federation (“the bargaining agent”) requested arbitration before a single member arbitration board in respect of the bargaining unit composed of all employees who are Royal Canadian Mounted Police members (excluding officers and civilian members) and all the employees who are reservists. The bargaining agent was certified for this bargaining unit in National Police Federation v. Treasury Board, 2019 FPSLREB 74. 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] On March 5, 2024, the Treasury Board acknowledged the bargaining agent’s request for arbitration and concurred with the proposal to appoint a single member arbitration board.
[3] Accordingly, pursuant to section 144 of the Federal Public Sector Labour Relations Act (the “Act”), the matters in dispute on which the arbitration board shall make an arbitral award are those set out in schedule 1 inclusive, which is attached to this decision.
[4] 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 Federal Public Sector Labour Relations and Employment Board, who is, according to subsection 144(1) of the Act, the only person authorized to make such a determination.
Amelie Lavictoire on behalf of Edith Bramwell Chairperson,
Federal Public Sector Labour Relations
and Employment Board