Federal Public Sector Labour Relations Act

Marginal note:Regulations

• 237 (1) The Board may make regulations respecting the processes for dealing with grievances, including regulations concerning

  • (a) the manner and form of presenting a grievance and, in the case of group grievances, the form of the consent of the employees concerned;

  • (b) the maximum number of levels in each grievance process;

  • (c) the manner in which employees are to be advised of the names of the persons whose decision on a grievance constitutes a level in the grievance process, including the final level;

  • (d) the time within which a grievance may be presented at any level in a grievance process;

  • (e) the circumstances in which any level below the final level in a grievance process may be eliminated;

  • (f) the manner in which and the time within which a grievance may be referred to adjudication after it has been presented up to and including the final level in the grievance process;

  • (g) the establishment of rules of procedure for the hearing of a grievance;

  • (h) the specification of the time within which and the persons to whom notices and other documents must be sent or given under this Part, and when the notices are deemed to have been sent, given or received; and

  • (i) the manner of giving notice of an issue to the Canadian Human Rights Commission under this Part.

• Marginal note:Application of regulations

  (2) Regulations made under subsection (1) respecting individual, group or policy grievances do not apply in respect of employees included in a bargaining unit for which a bargaining agent has been certified by the Board to the extent that the regulations are inconsistent with any provisions contained in a collective agreement entered into by the bargaining agent and the employer applicable to those employees.