Introduction

• Author: Timothy Hadwen/David Strang
• Pages: 1-4

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Introduction

To regulate and structure public service employment, the Ontario

government has enacted two particular employment and labour stat-

utes, the Public Service of Ontario Act, 2006 (PSOA)1 and the Crown

Employees Collective Bargaining Act, 1993 (CECBA),2 and modif‌ied

how other acts apply.

Chapter 1 reviews the rationale for and history of the special regula-

tion of public service employment in Ontario. There is some discussion

of public administration literature.

Chapter 2 sets out the structure and application of the PSOA,

reviews managerial authority over the public service, including the

role of the Management Board of Cabinet (MBC), and then describes

the PSOA employment provisions applying to government employees

appointed under PSOA Part III.

Chapter 3 sets out the PSOA ethical framework — the oaths, duty of

loyalty, conf‌lict of interest provisions, political activity rules, and disclo-

sure of wrongdoing provisions — that is applicable to all public servants:

those employed in government as well as those at designated agencies.

Chapter 4 deals with special classes of government public servants:

employee oce holders, professionals (doctors, dentists, and lawyers),

the Ontario Provincial Police, and a small anomalous group, Provincial

Schools Authority teachers.

1 SO 2006, c 35, Sch A.

2 SO 1993, c 38.