Public Service Employment Act (S.C. 2003, c. 22, ss. 12, 13 )

Marginal note:Laying off of employees

• 64 (1) Where the services of an employee are no longer required by reason of lack of work, the discontinuance of a function or the transfer of work or a function outside those portions of the federal public administration named in Schedule I, IV or V to the Financial Administration Act, the deputy head may, in accordance with the regulations of the Commission, lay off the employee, in which case the deputy head shall so advise the employee.

• Marginal note:Selection of employees

  (2) Where the deputy head determines under subsection (1) that some but not all of the employees in any part of the deputy head’s organization will be laid off, the employees to be laid off shall be selected in accordance with the regulations of the Commission.

• Marginal note:Exception

  (3) Subsection (1) does not apply where employment is terminated in the circumstances referred to in paragraph 12(1)(f) of the Financial Administration Act.

• Marginal note:Effect of lay-off

  (4) An employee ceases to be an employee when the employee is laid off.