Public Service Labour Relations Board Regulations (SOR/2005-79)

Marginal note:Adjournment of hearings

21. The Board may adjourn a hearing and specify the date, time, place and terms of its continuance.

Marginal note:Application for review of Board’s decision

22. An application for a review, referred to in section 43 of the Act, of an order or a decision of the Board shall contain a statement of the grounds on which the applicant intends to rely in support of the review.

Marginal note:Application for certification

23. An application for certification under section 54 of the Act shall be filed in Form 1 of the schedule.

Marginal note:Closing date

24. On receipt of the application for certification, the Executive Director shall

• (a) fix a closing date that is a date that will allow sufficient time for the employees to be notified and for them to respond, considering the number of employees who may be affected by the application for certification and the locations at which they are employed, and that is no less than 15 days and no more than 40 days after the day on which the application for certification is filed; and

• (b) notify the employer and any employee organization known to the Board that claims to represent any employees who may be affected by the application of the closing date.

Marginal note:Copies of notice to employees

• 25. (1) The Executive Director shall provide the employer with as many copies of the notice of the application for certification as are necessary considering the number of employees who may be affected by the application and the locations at which they are employed.

• Marginal note:Posting of copies of notice

  (2) On receipt of the copies of the notice, an employer shall post them, until the closing date, in conspicuous places where they are most likely to come to the attention of the employees who may be affected by the application.

• Marginal note:Statement of compliance

  (3) Immediately after the closing date, the employer shall file a statement that the employer has complied with subsection (2).

Marginal note:Employer’s reply

26. An employer shall file a reply to the application for certification, on or before the closing date, in Form 2 of the schedule.

Marginal note:Intervention

27. An employee organization that is provided with a copy of the application for certification or that claims to represent any of the employees who may be affected by the application may, on or before the closing date, file an application for intervention in Form 3 of the schedule.

Marginal note:Statement of opposition

28. If an employee or a group of employees is affected by an application for certification and is in opposition to it, the employee or group of employees may, on or before the closing date, file a statement of opposition in Form 4 of the schedule.