Federal Public Sector Labour Relations Act

Marginal note:Authority to make regulations

39 The Board may make regulations concerning

• (a) the certification of bargaining agents for bargaining units;

• (b) the determination of units appropriate for collective bargaining;

• (c) the time and manner of making applications under section 59, the provision of copies of those applications and the filing of objections in respect of any positions referred to in those applications;

• (d) the authority vested in a council of employee organizations that is to be considered the appropriate authority within the meaning of paragraph 64(1)(c);

• (e) the manner of making applications under sections 71 and 77, the time and manner of providing copies of those applications and the time and manner of the filing of objections in respect of any positions referred to in applications under section 71;

• (f) the rights, privileges and duties that are acquired or retained by an employee organization in respect of a bargaining unit or any employee included in a bargaining unit when there is a merger, an amalgamation or a transfer of jurisdiction between two or more employee organizations;

• (g) the revocation of certification of a bargaining agent, including the rights and privileges that have accrued to and are retained by any employee despite the revocation;

• (h) [Repealed, 2013, c. 40, s. 297]

• (i) to (k) [Repealed, 2013, c. 40, s. 368]

• (l) the circumstances in which the following evidence may be received by it as evidence that any employees wish or do not wish to have a particular employee organization represent them as their bargaining agent, and the circumstances in which it must not make public any evidence so received:

  • (i) evidence as to membership of employees in an employee organization,

  • (ii) evidence of objection by employees to certification of an employee organization, and

  • (iii) evidence of signification by employees that they no longer wish to be represented by an employee organization; and

• (m) any other matter that is incidental or conducive to the attainment of the objects of this Part.