Public Sector Equitable Compensation Act

Marginal note:Arbitral award

• 19 (1) The body seized of a request for arbitration under the Federal Public Sector Labour Relations Act that includes equitable compensation matters shall, subject to sections 150 and 238.22 of that Act, make an arbitral award that sets out a plan to resolve those matters within a reasonable time.

• Marginal note:Report

  (2) As soon as feasible after making an arbitral award that sets out a plan referred to in subsection (1), the body making the award shall prepare and make available to the Chairperson of the Board, in the prescribed manner, a report that

  • (a) sets out how the equitable compensation assessment in respect of every female predominant job group to which the award relates was conducted; and

  • (b) if the body has decided that an equitable compensation matter exists, specifies whether or not that matter is to be resolved during the term of the arbitral award.

• Marginal note:Copy to employer and bargaining agent

  (3) On receipt of the report, the Chairperson of the Board shall, without delay, send a copy to the employer and the bargaining agent concerned and may cause the report to be published in any manner that the Chairperson considers appropriate.