Parliamentary employees

• Author: Christopher Rootham
• Pages: 485-498

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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-

nicant 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 dierent from the current PSLRA because of changes to the

PSLRA, and some of PESRA is dierent from the PSLRA because of dierences

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-

 erewereroughlyemployeesoftheHouseofCommonsin,andanotherere 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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