Parliamentary Employment and Staff Relations Act

Marginal note:Authority of Board to make regulations

• 12 (1) The Board may make regulations of general application respecting

  • (a) the manner in which persons shall be designated by an employer, or by the Board on objection thereto by a bargaining agent, to be persons described in subparagraphs (c)(i) to (v) of the definition person employed in a managerial or confidential capacity in section 3;

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

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

  • (d) the hearing or determination of any matter relating to or arising out of the revocation of certification of a bargaining agent, including the rights and privileges that have accrued to and are retained by any employee notwithstanding the revocation;

  • (e) 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 the unit where there is any merger, amalgamation or transfer of jurisdiction between two or more such organizations;

  • (f) the establishment of rules of procedure for the hearings of an adjudicator;

  • (g) [Repealed, 2013, c. 40, s. 427]

  • (h) the circumstances in which evidence as to membership of employees in an employee organization may be received by the Board as evidence that any employees wish or do not wish to have that employee organization represent them as their bargaining agent;

  • (i) [Repealed, 2013, c. 40, s. 427]

  • (j) the authority vested in a council of employee organizations that shall be considered appropriate authority within the meaning of paragraph 19(2)(b); and

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

• Marginal note:When regulations effective

  (2) Regulations of general application made under subsection (1) have effect on publication in the Canada Gazette.