SHORT TITLE

Marginal note:Short title

1. This Act may be cited as the Veterans Hiring Act.

2003, c. 22, ss. 12 and 13PUBLIC SERVICE EMPLOYMENT ACT

Marginal note:2006, c. 9, s. 100

2. Paragraph 22(2)(a) of the Public Service Employment Act is replaced by the following:

Marginal note:2005, c. 21, s. 115

• 3. (1) The portion of subsection 35.1(1) of the Act before paragraph (b) is replaced by the following:

  Marginal note:Mobility — member of Canadian Forces

  • 35.1 (1) A member of the Canadian Forces who has accumulated at least three years of service and is not employed in the public service for an indeterminate period

    • (a) may participate in an advertised internal appointment process; and

• (2) Section 35.1 of the Act is amended by adding the following after subsection (1):

  • Marginal note:Exception

    (1.1) For the purpose of paragraph (1)(a), if a criterion in relation to belonging to any of the designated groups, as defined in section 3 of the Employment Equity Act, is established under section 34, the member shall meet that criterion.

4. The Act is amended by adding the following after section 35.1:

Marginal note:2006, c. 9, s. 102

5. Section 38 of the Act is replaced by the following:

• 6. (1) The portion of subsection 39(1) of the Act before paragraph (a) is replaced by the following:

  Marginal note:Preference to veterans and Canadian citizens

  • 39. (1) In an advertised external appointment process, subject to any priorities established under paragraph 22(2)(a) and by sections 39.1, 40 and 41, any of the following who, in the Commission’s opinion, meet the essential qualifications referred to in paragraph 30(2)(a) shall be appointed ahead of other candidates, in the following order:

• (2) Section 39 of the Act is amended by adding the following after subsection (2):

  • Marginal note:Limit of five years

    (3) With respect to a veteran referred to in paragraph (f) of the definition “veteran” within the meaning of the schedule, the order of appointment set out in subsection (1) is valid for a period of five years after the veteran’s date of release.

7. The Act is amended by adding the following after section 39:

8. Section 43 of the Act is replaced by the following:

Marginal note:2006, c. 9. s. 104

9. Subsection 53(2) of the Act is replaced by the following:

Marginal note:2006, c. 9, s. 105

10. Section 87 of the Act is replaced by the following:

11. The schedule to the Act is amended by replacing the reference after the heading “SCHEDULE” with the following:

• 12. (1) The definition “survivor of a veteran” in section 1 of the schedule to the Act is replaced by the following:

  “survivor of a veteran”

  « survivant d’un ancien combattant »

  “survivor of a veteran” means the surviving spouse or surviving common-law partner of a person who, being a veteran referred to in any of paragraphs (a) to (e) of the definition “veteran”, died from causes arising during the service by virtue of which the person became a veteran;

• (2) The definition “veteran” in the schedule to the Act is amended by striking out “or” at the end of paragraph (d), by adding “or” at the end of paragraph (e) and by adding the following after paragraph (e):

  • (f) has served at least three years in the Canadian Forces, has been honourably released within the meaning of regulations made under the National Defence Act and is not employed in the public service for an indeterminate period.

TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS

Marginal note:Priority

• 13. (1) Section 39.1 of the Public Service Employment Act applies to a person who is described in any of paragraphs 8(1)(a) to (e) of the Public Service Employment Regulations, who has had an entitlement to a priority under section 8 of those Regulations at any time during the period that begins on April 1, 2012 and ends on the day before the day on which this Act comes into force and who has been released from the Canadian Forces for medical reasons that the Minister of Veterans Affairs determines are attributable to service, unless, during that period, the person has been appointed to a position in the public service for an indeterminate period or declined such an appointment without good and sufficient reason.

• Marginal note:Entitlement period

  (2) For the purposes of subsection (1), the entitlement to the priority established by section 39.1 of the Public Service Employment Act ends on the earliest of

  • (a) the day that is five years after the day on which this Act comes into force,

  • (b) the day on which the person is appointed to a position in the public service for an indeterminate period, and

  • (c) the day on which the person declines an appointment to a position in the public service for an indeterminate period without good and sufficient reason.

COORDINATING AMENDMENTS

Marginal note:2013, c. 40

• 14. (1) In this section, “other Act” means the Economic Action Plan 2013 Act, No. 2.

• (2) On the first day on which both section 351 of the other Act and section 4 of this Act are in force:

  • (a) paragraph 35.11(1)(b) of the Public Service Employment Act is replaced by the following:

    • (b) has the right to make a complaint under section 77 or 78.

  • (b) subsection 77(4) of the Public Service Employment Act is replaced by the following:

    • Marginal note:When no right to complain

      (4) No complaint may be made under subsection (1) in respect of an appointment under subsection 15(6) (reappointment on revocation by deputy head), section 39.1 (priority — members of the Canadian Forces), section 40 (priorities — surplus employees), subsection 41(1) or (4) (other priorities), section 73 (reappointment on revocation by Commission) or section 86 (reappointment following Tribunal order), or under any regulations made under paragraph 22(2)(a).

  • (c) subsection 78(2) of the Public Service Employment Act is replaced by the following:

    • Marginal note:When no right to complain

      (2) No complaint may be made under subsection (1) in respect of an appointment under subsection 15(6) (reappointment on revocation by deputy head), section 39.1 (priority — members of the Canadian Forces), section 40 (priorities — surplus employees), subsection 41(1) or (4) (other priorities), section 73 (reappointment on revocation by Commission) or section 86 (reappointment following Tribunal order), or under any regulations made under paragraph 22(2)(a).

• (3) If section 414 of the other Act comes into force before section 5 of this Act, then, on the day on which that section 5 comes into force, the Public Service Employment Act is amended by replacing “Tribunal” with “Board” in the following provisions:

  • (a) section 38;

  • (b) subsection 77(4);

  • (c) subsection 78(2); and

  • (d) section 87.

• (4) If section 414 of the other Act comes into force on the same day as section 5 of this Act, then sections 5 and 10 of this Act are deemed to have come into force before that section 414.