Date: 20250923

File: 585-20-51153

Citation: 2025 FPSLREB 118

in the matter of

The federal public sector labour relations act

and a dispute affecting

the Public Service Alliance of Canada, as bargaining agent,

and the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, as employer,

in respect of the bargaining unit composed of all employees of the Intelligence Support group

Indexed as

Public Service Alliance of Canada v. Canadian Security Intelligence Service

TERMS OF REFERENCE

To: James Cameron, chairperson of the arbitration board;

Joseph Herbert and Pierre Parent, arbitration board members

Before: Edith Bramwell, Chairperson of the Federal Public Sector Labour Relations and Employment Board

For the Bargaining Agent: Mathieu Brûlé

For the Employer: Jean-Michel Richardson and Carole Piette

Issued on the basis of written submissions,
dated November 25, December 3 and 9, 2024.

[1] By letter dated November 25, 2024, the Public Service Alliance of Canada (“the bargaining agent”) requested arbitration in respect of the Intelligence Support group bargaining unit. Along with its request, the bargaining agent provided a list of the terms and conditions of employment that it wished to refer to arbitration (labelled as schedule 1).

[2] By letter dated December 3, 2024, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (“the employer”) provided its position on the terms and conditions of employment that the bargaining agent wished to refer to arbitration as well as a list of additional terms and conditions of employment it wished to refer to arbitration (labelled as schedule 2).

[3] By letter dated December 9, 2024, the bargaining agent provided its position on the additional terms and conditions of employment that the employer wished to refer to arbitration (labelled as schedule 3).

[4] 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 schedules 1 to 3 inclusive.

[5] 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 section 144(1) of the Act, the only person authorized to make such a determination.

September 23, 2025.

Edith Bramwell

Chairperson,

Federal Public Sector Labour Relations

and Employment Board