Public Service Labour Relations Act (S.C. 2003, c. 22, s. 2)

Marginal note:Making of arbitral award

• 149. (1) The arbitration board must make an arbitral award as soon as possible in respect of all the matters in dispute that are referred to it.

• Marginal note:Award to be signed

  (2) The arbitral award must be signed by the chairperson of the arbitration board, or by the single member, as the case may be, and a copy must be sent to the Chairperson.

Marginal note:Award not to require legislative implementation

• 150. (1) The arbitral award may not, directly or indirectly, alter or eliminate any existing term or condition of employment, or establish any new term or condition of employment, if

  • (a) doing so would require the enactment or amendment of any legislation by Parliament, except for the purpose of appropriating money required for the implementation of the term or condition;

  • (b) the term or condition is one that has been or may be established under the Public Service Employment Act, the Public Service Superannuation Act or the Government Employees Compensation Act;

  • (c) the term or condition relates to standards, procedures or processes governing the appointment, appraisal, promotion, deployment, rejection on probation or lay-off of employees;

  • (d) in the case of a separate agency, the term or condition relates to termination of employment, other than termination of employment for a breach of discipline or misconduct; or

  • (e) doing so would affect the organization of the public service or the assignment of duties to, and the classification of, positions and persons employed in the public service.

• Marginal note:Matters not negotiated

  (2) The arbitral award may not deal with a term or condition of employment that was not the subject of negotiation between the parties during the period before arbitration was requested.

Marginal note:Decision of majority

• 151. (1) If the arbitration board consists of three members, a decision of a majority of the members in respect of the matters in dispute is a decision of the board on those matters and is the arbitral award in respect of those matters.

• Marginal note:Decision where majority cannot agree

  (2) If a majority of members of the arbitration board cannot agree in respect of the matters in dispute, the decision of the chairperson of the board is the arbitral award in respect of those matters.

Marginal note:Form of award

152. The form of the arbitral award must, wherever possible, permit the award to be

• (a) read and interpreted with, or annexed to and published with, a collective agreement dealing with other terms and conditions of employment of the employees in the bargaining unit in respect of which the arbitral award applies; and

• (b) incorporated into and implemented by any instrument that may be required to be made by the employer or the relevant bargaining agent in respect of the arbitral award.