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Rajab v. Deputy Head (Courts Administration Service)

Collection FPSLREB Decisions
Decision Rendered 2025-05-29
Citation 2025 FPSLREB 66
Before Christopher Rootham
Decision Type Labour Relations
Subject Terms Grievance procedure
Jurisdiction
Keywords Labour relations – Grievance procedure in the Federal Public Sector Labour Relations Act (S.C. 2003, c. 22, s. 2; “the Act”) – Jurisdiction – Preliminary issue – Whether the employee filed a valid grievance
Original Language English
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Summary:

The employee filed a reference to adjudication, alleging that he was terminated and that he never resigned. The deputy head objected to his reference to adjudication because he never filed a grievance with it, contrary to ss. 209 and 225 of the Act. The employee stated that he filed a grievance and relied on five documents. The Board identified four essential features of a grievance. First, it must provide a description of the event being grieved. Second, it must provide a description of the relief sought by the employee. Third, it must use the word “grievance” or a sufficiently similar term such that the employer would reasonably recognize that the employee intends the document to be a grievance. Fourth, it must be provided to someone in the employee’s department that has the authority to deal with a grievance or at least to pass it on to the person with that authority. The Board reviewed the employee’s five alleged grievances and found that none could be reasonably recognized as a grievance. The Board concluded that he never filed a grievance.

Reference to adjudication dismissed.

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