FPSLREB Decisions
Decision Information
The Public Service Alliance of Canada filed a group grievance on behalf of 36 grievors on April 23, 2015, alleging that in 2011, the employer, Environment Canada, failed to provide a complete and current job description, as required by the Technical Services collective agreement. The grievors belonged to the employer’s Enforcement Branch and included wildlife enforcement officers. The employer argued that the grievance was moot because it was allowed in part at the first level of the internal grievance process and that in the years following the grievance’s filing, it altered subsequent versions of the job description. The Board held that the employer’s assertion of mootness was incorrect because the 2011 job description was being grieved, not later revisions. It allowed the grievance in part. It found that some changes to the generic work description were warranted because the employer did not lead evidence or challenge that the actual duties changed after the grievance was filed and subsequent revisions were made to the job description.
Grievance allowed in part.