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

Marginal note:Authority of deputy heads to deploy

• 51 (1) Except as provided in this or any other Act, a deputy head may deploy employees to or within the deputy head’s organization.

• Marginal note:Deployment from separate agencies

  (2) Except as provided in this or any other Act, a deputy head may deploy to the deputy head’s organization persons who are employed in a separate agency to which the Commission does not have the exclusive authority to make appointments if the Commission has, after reviewing the staffing program of the separate agency at the agency’s request, approved deployments from it.

• Marginal note:Deployment within or between groups

  (3) A deployment may be made within an occupational group or, unless excluded by regulations under paragraph 26(1)(a), between occupational groups.

• Marginal note:Treasury Board directives and regulations

  (4) A deployment to or within an organization named in Schedule I or IV to the Financial Administration Act shall be made in the manner directed by the Treasury Board and in accordance with any regulations of the Treasury Board.

• Marginal note:Employment status preserved

  (5) The deployment of a person may not

  • (a) constitute a promotion, within the meaning of regulations of the Treasury Board, in the case of an organization named in Schedule I or IV to the Financial Administration Act, or as determined by the separate agency, in the case of a separate agency to which the Commission has the exclusive authority to make appointments; or

  • (b) change a person’s period of employment from a specified term to indeterminate.

• Marginal note:Consent to deployment

  (6) No person may be deployed without his or her consent unless

  • (a) agreement to being deployed is a condition of employment of the person’s current position; or

  • (b) the deputy head of the organization in which the person is employed finds, after investigation, that the person has harassed another person in the course of his or her employment and the deployment is made within the same organization.