Parliamentary employees
Author | Christopher Rootham |
Pages | 485-498 |
PARLIAMENTARY EMPLOYEES
A. INTRODUCTION
As stated in Chapter ree, employees of the House of Commons, Senate, and
Library of Parliament are not covered by the Public Service Labour Relations
Act or the Public Service Employment Act, nor are they covered by the Canada
Labour Code. Instead, they are covered by the Parliamentary Employment and
Sta Relations Act. When PESRA was rst enacted in , it was designed to be
very simila r to the Public Service Sta Relations Act then in force. As discussed
in previous chapters, the Public Service Sta Relations Act underwent some sig-
nicant revisions in , and then again in when it became the PSLRA.
PESRA, on the other hand, has not undergone these same revisions. erefore,
some of PESRA is dierent from the current PSLRA because of changes to the
PSLRA, and some of PESRA is dierent from the PSLRA because of dierences
deliberately made when PESRA was enacted. However, for the most part, PESRA
is very similar to the PSLRA. It is administered by the Public Service Labour
Relations Board (PSLRB), and the Boa rd follows precedent from PSLRA in decid-
erewereroughlyemployeesoftheHouseofCommonsin,andanotherere were roughly e mployees of the House of Commons in , a nd another
employees of the Librar y of Parliament. e Senate ha d roughly employees in .
See Vaid v. Canada (House of Commons), [] S.C.R. at para. [Vaid], a nd also
e Senate of Canada Annua l Report –, online: w ww.parl.gc.ca/infor mation/
about/process/Senate/AnnualRep//pdf/AnnualRep-e.pdf.
Public Serv ice Labour Relations Act , S.C. , c. , s. [PSLRA]; Public Serv ice Em-
ployment Act, S.C . , c. , ss. & ; Canada Labour Code, R.S.C. , c. L- . See
House of Commons v. Canad a (Labour Relations Board), [] F.C. (C.A.).
Parliamentary Employ ment and Sta Relations Act, R .S.C. (nd Supp.), c.
[PESRA].
Public Serv ice Sta Relations Act, S.C. –, c. ; Public Ser vice Sta Relations Ac t,
R.S., , c. P-.
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